{"product_id":"2940012989314","title":"POGANUC PEOPLE - Their Loves and Lives","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Poganuc People\" was the last of Mrs. Stowe's novels, and it may truly be said to have shown her genius flaring up at the end: she returned to early loves; she wrote with a glow of reminiscence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December, 1876, she wrote from her Florida home to her son Charles: \"I am again entangled in writing a serial, a thing I never meant to do again; but the story, begun for a mere Christmas brochure, grew so under my hands that I thought I might as well fill it out and make a book of it. It is the last thing of the kind I ever expect to do. In it I condense my recollections of a bygone era, that in which I was brought up, the ways and manners of which are now as nearly obsolete as the Old England of Dickens's stories is.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders of Mrs. Stowe's personal reminiscences will recall the amusing account she gives of her early preference for the Church Catechism over the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, and not infrequently in her stories did she introduce contrasts and comparisons between the Congregational and the Episcopal order. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is not surprising, therefore, to find the subject of church relations cropping out in this story, written when she was recalling early days, and reproducing in characters and scenes the movements of her own life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndeed, within the bounds of the novelist's art, \"Poganuc People\" has many autobiographic touches. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her own copy of the book, Mrs. Stowe pencilled a number of marginal notes, pointing out the basis of fact upon which certain passages rested, and even the personages who were disguised in name only. Thus she indicates that Colonel Davenport, the confidential friend of General Washington, in Chapter VII, was Colonel Talmage; Israel Dennie, the distributer of Federal votes in Chapter IX, was Sheriff Landon; and she noted against the conversation between Squire Dennie and Zeph Higgins, immediately following the introduction of the sheriff, \"A true incident.\" That she had in mind her own father in the character of Dr. Cushing appears from her note at the last sentence of this chapter, \"Father's own words,\" and \"A true incident\" against the pathetic passage after the defeat of the Federalists when Dr. Cushing gave vent to his feelings in his choice of the evening psalm. Again, in the description of the Poganuc parsonage, she wrote opposite the passage, \"Description of Father's Litchfield study,\" and along the account of the adventures of the rats and the cat in the parsonage she drew an inclusive line and marked it, \"Exact.\" \"Exact,\" \" My own experience\" and \"Litchfield\" she wrote also over against the opening pages of the next chapter, \"Spring and Summer come at last,\" and \"My own childish experience\" at the impression made upon Dolly by Colonel Davenport's reading of the Declaration of Independence, in Chapter XVIII. \"My experience\" again she pencilled against the passage in Chapter XIX which described Dolly's household tasks, and the description of Poganuc River was a close copy of her own memory of Bantam River. Chapter XX narrates a chestnutting frolic, and Mrs. Stowe made the memorandum on it, \"This whole chapter is drawn from the life;\" and once more when she read over her twenty-first chapter she wrote: \"All this story of the party happened to me; I never forgot it.\" Dolly's experience in going for wild strawberries, at the beginning of chapter XXVII, is marked, \"From life,\" and \"East Burying Ground, Litchfield,\" written against the description of the Poganuc graveyard in the same chapter. \"Word for word fact\" is her strong comment, and Miss Debby, in her first interview with Dolly at the close of Chapter XXXV, is explained to be \"Aunt Harriet Foote, exact.\" Clearly, those early days of visits to Nut Plains came vividly up to her sixty years later when she wrote this story.\u003cbr\u003e\"Pink and White Tyranny\" was written five years earlier than Poganuc People, and her own attitude toward it is shown in the following brief address to the reader which introduced the book when it first appeared: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"My Dear Reader, — This story is not to be a novel, as the world understands the word; and we tell you so beforehand, lest you be in ill-humor by not finding what you expected. For if you have been told that your dinner is to be salmon and green pease, and made up your mind to that bill of fare, and then, on coming to the table, find that it is beefsteak and tomatoes, you may be out of sorts; not because beefsteak and tomatoes are not respectable viands, but because they are not what you have made up your mind to enjoy.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068635463920,"sku":"2940012989314","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012989314_p0.jpg?v=1763575001","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012989314","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}