Reading for Winter Evenings; A Selection of Amusing and Instructive Stories. New and Improved Series, No. 22

New and Improved Series, No. 22

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers

1850

24 pages

Chapbook #33 and #34 in a bound collection of 34 chapbooks

"Price one penny." on title-page

Woodcut #78: Illustration on title-page of a man and a woman reading at a table in front of a window.

moral tales

A collection of stories and tales about the adventures of a variety of different characters, including an elderly cat describing her adventures—most frequently her many brushes with death—throughout her life, a successful farmer who had to endure an astonishing number of travails and hardships in his life on his way to prosperity, a young woman who made an imprudent marriage and suffered until a rich uncle returned from sea and lifts her and her family out of poverty, and an Indian prince who is presented with a series of gifts, the most valuable of which turns out to be a book or moral precepts from which he would learn to rule with wisdom and grace. The major theme running through many of these stories appears to be fortitude and perseverance, even in the face of adversity, disaster, and death.

India

Scotland

Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow

Religion and Morals

Courtship and Marriage

Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario

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