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Freckles

Freckles

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1718628617
ISBN13: 9781718628618
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 1 2018
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.27 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Freckles By Gene Stratton-Porter Freckles is a 1904 novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter. It is primarily set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, with brief scenes set in Chicago. The title character also appears briefly in Porter's A Girl of the Limberlost. The novel is marked by its frequent, detailed, and loving descriptions of the flora and fauna of the wilderness through the eyes of its innocent protagonist. The hero is an adult orphan, just under twenty years of age, with bright red hair and a freckled complexion. His right hand is missing at the wrist, and has been since before he can remember. Raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage, he speaks with a slight Irish accent, scarcely definite enough to be called a brogue. Exhausted after days of walking and looking like a hobo, he applies for a job with the Grand Rapids lumber company, guarding timber in the Limberlost Swamp. McLean, part owner, organizer and field manager of the large company, and enthralled with the Limberlost, is impressed by the boy's polite assertiveness and hires him despite his youth and disability. He gives his name only as Freckles, insisting that he has no name of his own. He claims the name given him in the orphanage (which we never learn) is no more my name than it is yours.

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