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Georgie: A Classic Nineteenth-Century Children's Story
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515420644
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Georgie is a gentle nineteenth-century children's story by Jacob Abbott, written to teach young readers through everyday incident, moral example, family life, and clear practical lessons. Abbott's fiction for children helped shape early American juvenile literature by combining simple narrative, direct instruction, and sympathetic attention to the habits, choices, and character formation of the young.
In Georgie, Abbott presents childhood not as a world apart from moral responsibility, but as the place where judgment, patience, obedience, honesty, kindness, and self-command begin to take form. His style is plain, calm, and accessible, built around recognizable situations rather than melodrama. For modern readers, the book offers both a period story and a window into nineteenth-century ideas of childhood education, domestic virtue, and moral development.
This SMK Books edition is suitable for readers and collections interested in classic children's fiction, early American juvenile literature, moral instruction stories, family reading, homeschool libraries, and the history of children's books. Abbott's work remains useful not only as storytelling, but as a record of how earlier generations used fiction to teach conduct, responsibility, and thoughtful behavior.
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