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The Hoosier Schoolmaster

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1871
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  1. Preface

    34:04

  2. A Private Lesson from a Bulldog

    23:27

  3. A Spell Coming

    6:56

  4. Mirandy, Hank, and Shocky

    17:17

  5. Spelling Down the Master

    27:51

  6. The Walk Home

    9:45

  7. A Night at Pete Jones's

    10:37

  8. Ominous Remarks of Mr. Jones

    4:28

  9. The Struggle in the Dark

    5:43

  10. Has God Forgotten Shocky?

    5:26

  11. The Devil of Silence

    8:39

  12. Miss Martha Hawkins

    10:42

  13. The Hardshell Preacher

    14:30

  14. A Struggle for the Mastery

    8:50

  15. A Crisis with Bud

    8:35

  16. The Church of the Best Licks

    7:09

  17. The Church Militant

    7:41

  18. A Council of War

    6:44

  19. Odds and Ends

    5:55

  20. Face to Face

    6:09

  21. God Remembers Shocky

    9:04

  22. Miss Nancy Sawyer

    2:54

  23. Pancakes

    9:08

  24. A Charitable Institution

    10:36

  25. The Good Samaritan

    3:45

  26. Bud Wooing

    5:29

  27. A Letter and its Consequences

    4:33

  28. A Loss and a Gain

    4:33

  29. The Flight

    8:42

  30. The Trial

    19:02

  31. "Brother Sodom"

    5:53

  32. The Trial Concluded

    18:52

  33. After the Battle

    5:58

  34. Into the Light

    5:05

  35. "How It Came Out"

    5:32

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Ralph Hartsook, a green young schoolmaster, takes charge of a rough district school in backwoods Indiana, where the older boys have literally driven off his predecessors. To keep order he must outwit and outlast them, all while a tangle of local feuds, a robbery, and a budding romance close in around him. Edward Eggleston built the story on his brother's real experiences teaching frontier children, and he wrote the dialogue in the blunt Hoosier dialect he grew up hearing. The result, published in 1871, was a landmark of American regional fiction, giving Eastern readers an honest look at spelling bees, revival meetings, and pioneer justice. Its plain realism helped turn the tide away from genteel romance. Free to read in PDF and EPUB.

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Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston (1837 to 1902) was an American historian and novelist, best known for The Hoosier Schoolmaster. A former Methodist preacher, he wrote realistic fiction about ordinary American life and later turned to writing social history.

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Book facts

First published
1871
Reading time
About 4 hours
Pages
147
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Bridget Gaige