The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair
Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664613769
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. GRANDFATHER AND THE CHILDREN AND THE CHAIR.
CHAPTER II. THE PURITANS AND THE LADY ARBELLA.
CHAPTER V. THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER VI. THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS.
CHAPTER VII. THE QUAKERS AND THE INDIANS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE INDIAN BIBLE.
CHAPTER IX. ENGLAND AND NEW ENGLAND.
CHAPTER X. THE SUNKEN TREASURE.
CHAPTER XI. WHAT THE CHAIR HAD KNOWN.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LIFE OF JOHN ELIOT,
CHAPTER I. THE CHAIR IN THE FIRELIGHT.
CHAPTER II. THE SALEM WITCHES.
CHAPTER III. THE OLD-FASHIONED SCHOOL.
CHAPTER V. THE REJECTED BLESSING.
CHAPTER VI. POMPS AND VANITIES.
CHAPTER VII. THE PROVINCIAL MUSTER.
CHAPTER VIII. THE OLD FRENCH WAR AND THE ACADIAN EXILES
CHAPTER IX. THE END OF THE WAR.
ACCOUNT OF THE DEPORTATION OF THE ACADIANS.
CHAPTER III. THE HUTCHINSON MOB.
CHAPTER IV. THE BRITISH TROOPS IN BOSTON.
CHAPTER V. THE BOSTON MASSACRE.
CHAPTER VI. A COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS.
CHAPTER VII. THE TEA PARTY AND LEXINGTON.
CHAPTER VIII. THE SIEGE OF BOSTON.
CHAPTER IX. THE TORY’S FAREWELL.
CHAPTER X. THE WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.
CHAPTER XI. GRANDFATHER’S DREAM.
A LETTER FROM GOVERNOR HUTCHINSON NARRATING THE DOINGS OF THE MOB.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
IN writing this ponderous tome, the author’s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the YOUNG may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever an historical personage happens to be looking