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The Real Diary of a Real Boy - A Mischievous Boyhood in Nineteenth-Century New England
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781592241903
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jul 20 2003
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.38 Depth: 8.54
Language: English
Schoolroom scrapes, neighborhood rivalries, stern punishments, and glorious outdoor adventures fill the pages of this wonderfully unruly portrait of American boyhood. Written in the voice-and deliberately imperfect spelling-of young Plupy Shute, The Real Diary of a Real Boy follows an eleven-year-old growing up in Exeter, New Hampshire, during the 1860s.
Plupy's days are crowded with fishing expeditions, fights, practical jokes, troublesome friends, family disputes, and repeated encounters with adult authority. His observations are impulsive, candid, and frequently hilarious, capturing the peculiar logic of childhood without smoothing away its selfishness, cruelty, loyalty, wonder, or innocence.
Drawn from Henry A. Shute's memories of his own New England boyhood, this enduring fictional diary offers both lively entertainment and a vivid glimpse of everyday American life after the Civil War. Its energetic humor and authentic youthful voice made the book a national success and established Plupy as one of the memorable mischievous boys of early American popular fiction.
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