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A Boy's Will
1w ago00:50:26Tap to summarizeA Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet. He later became the major American poet of the twentieth century.A Boy's Will is characteristic of Frost's ability to conjure photographically clear physical images while ruminating on the complexities of the human condition, its frailties and strengths, and its temporal state, like that of his beloved New England landscape. (Summary by Becky Miller)Genre(s): PoetryLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): literature (1959), poetry (1824)
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Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
1w ago06:06:02Tap to summarizeThese 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier —to trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such data serves to explain the great soldier of later years. Summary compiled from the preface of the book. (Summary by philchenevert)Genre(s): BiographyLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): literature (1959), adventure (1061), history (910), biography (356), war stories (46), teen/young adult (20)
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Boyhood
2w ago02:55:01Tap to summarizeBoyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)Genre(s): Fictional Biographies & MemoirsLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): autobiography (94), youth (68), childhood (59), Russian Literature (47), Tolstoy (26), trilogy (9), autobiographical novel (3)
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The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys
2w ago04:56:44Tap to summarizeRICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are certain of his stories that go with especial directness to a boy’s heart and sympathies and make for him quite unforgettable literature. A few of these were made some years ago into a volume, “Stories for Boys,” and found a large and enthusiastic special public in addition to Davis’s general readers; and the present collection from stories more recently published is issued with the same motive. This book takes its title from “The Boy Scout,” the first of its tales; and it includes “The Boy Who Cried Wolf,” “Blood Will Tell,” the immortal “Gallegher,” and “The Bar Sinister,” Davis’s famous dog story. It is a fresh volume added to what Augustus Thomas calls “safe stuff to give to a young fellow who likes to take off his hat and dilate his nostrils and feel the wind in his face.” (Summary by Publisher's Note in book)Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure, Short worksLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): fiction (1613), short stories (730), dogs (56), spy (25), Cuba (20), Boy Scout (4), newspaper reporting (1)
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The Box-Car Children
2w ago02:42:19Tap to summarizeFour children: Henry, Jess Violet and Bennie. They are living alone in a stranded boxcar. They find items they need from the dump and a stray dog whom they name Watch. Henry earns money by working for a man named Dr. McAllister and his mother, Mrs. McAllister. But, while they are living their daily lives, little do they know that the McAllisters are watching their every move. (Summary by francesb)Genre(s): Action & Adventure, FamilyLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): Mystery (800), orphans (30), train (21), boxcar (5), grandfather (3)
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Bowser the Hound
2w ago02:13:04Tap to summarizeOld Man Coyote craftily leads Bowser the hound away from home, and Bowser gets lost. Will Bowser find his way back to Farmer Brown's? Will Reddy Fox finally catch himself a chicken, now that Bowser is no longer guarding the henhouse? This is one of many delightful books by the naturalist Thornton W. Burgess, who wrote children's stories featuring the animals of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)Genre(s): Children's Fiction, Animals & NatureLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): literature (1959), children (1119), animals (410), dogs (56), foxhounds (1)
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Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) Version 2
2w ago01:44:20Tap to summarizeGuy de Maupassant (1850 - 1893)Translated by Albert M. Cohn McMaster (1888 - 1946)Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre" ("Boule de Suif and Other Stories of the War"). John Ford said that his film Stagecoach was in many ways a western rewrite of Boule de Suif. (Summary by Wikipedia)Genre(s): General FictionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): maupassant (3)
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Boots and Saddles
2w ago08:59:14Tap to summarizeElizabeth Custer has penned an engaging portrait of 1870’s life on a U.S. cavalry post in the Dakotas, just before her husband and his troops met their tragic deaths in the Battle of the Little Big Horn. “Our life,” she writes, “was often as separate from the rest of the world as if we had been living on an island in the ocean.” Her portrait of her husband, General George Armstrong Custer is laudatory—his intellect, his love of dogs (he kept a hunting pack of 40 at the post); but, Boots and Saddles is more than just a memorial. She observes with keen insight, the varied persons, from Indian scouts, to enlisted men, to officer’s wives, who make up the army “family,” on the post. Her sympathetic story about the regimental laundress and midwife, with its sad ending, should take a place in the army’s history of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” (Summary by Sue Anderson)Genre(s): War & Military, MemoirsLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): george custer (4), frontier and pioneer life (3), united states army (2), elizabeth bacon custer (1), united states cavalry (1), dakota territory (1), generals' spouses (1)
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The Book of Mormon (Part 4)
2w ago04:35:39Tap to summarizeThe Book of Mormon (Part 4)The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.The book was written by ancient prophets through the spirit of prophecy and revelation. It gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C., and afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The other came much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as the Jaredites. After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians.The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after his resurrection. It puts forth the doctrines of the gospel, outlines the plan of salvation, and tells men what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come. (Summary by Elaine Webb)Genre(s): ReligionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): lds (7), Mormonism (6), mormons (4), latter day saints (2)
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The Book of Mormon (Pt.3)
3w ago07:13:59Tap to summarizeThe Book of Mormon (Pt.3)The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with the ancient inhabitants of the Americas.The book was written by ancient prophets through the spirit of prophecy and revelation. It gives an account of two great civilizations. One came from Jerusalem in 600 B.C., and afterward separated into two nations, known as the Nephites and the Lamanites. The other came much earlier when the Lord confounded the tongues at the Tower of Babel. This group is known as the Jaredites. After thousands of years, all were destroyed except the Lamanites, and they are among the ancestors of the American Indians.The crowning event recorded in the Book of Mormon is the personal ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Nephites soon after his resurrection. It puts forth the doctrines of the gospel, outlines the plan of salvation, and tells men what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come. (Summary by Elaine Webb)Genre(s): ReligionLanguage: EnglishKeyword(s): lds (7), Mormonism (6), mormons (4), latter day saints (2)
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