{"product_id":"2940013565029","title":"Osceola The Seminole","description":"PREFACE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Historical Novel has ever maintained a high rank--perhaps the\u003cbr\u003ehighest--among works of fiction, for the reason that while it enchants\u003cbr\u003ethe senses, it improves the mind, conveying, under a most pleasing form,\u003cbr\u003emuch information which, perhaps, the reader would never have sought for\u003cbr\u003eamid the dry records of the purely historic narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis fact being conceded, it needs but little argument to prove that\u003cbr\u003ethose works are most interesting which treat of the facts and incidents\u003cbr\u003epertaining to our own history, and of a date which is yet fresh in the\u003cbr\u003ememory of the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this class of books pre-eminently belongs the volume which is here\u003cbr\u003esubmitted to the American reader, from the pen of a writer who has\u003cbr\u003eproved himself unsurpassed in the field which he has, by his various\u003cbr\u003eworks, made peculiarly his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe brief but heroic struggle of the celebrated Chief, Osceola, forms\u003cbr\u003ethe groundwork of a narrative which is equal, if not superior, to any of\u003cbr\u003eMr Reid's former productions; and while the reader's patriotism cannot\u003cbr\u003efail to be gratified at the result, his sympathy is, at the same time,\u003cbr\u003eawakened for the manly struggles and untimely fate of the gallant\u003cbr\u003espirit, who fought so nobly for the freedom of his red brethren and the\u003cbr\u003epreservation of their cherished hunting-grounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER ONE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE FLOWERY LAND.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinda Florida! fair land of flowers!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThus hailed thee the bold Spanish adventurer, as standing upon the prow\u003cbr\u003eof his caravel, he first caught sight of thy shores.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was upon the Sunday of Palms--the festival of the flowers--and the\u003cbr\u003edevout Castilian beheld in thee a fit emblem of the day.  Under the\u003cbr\u003einfluence of a pious thought, he gave thee its name, and well deservedst\u003cbr\u003ethou the proud appellation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat was three hundred years ago.  Three full cycles have rolled past,\u003cbr\u003esince the hour of thy baptismal ceremony; but the title becomes thee as\u003cbr\u003eever.  Thy floral bloom is as bright at this hour as when Leon landed\u003cbr\u003eupon thy shores--ay, bright as when the breath of God first called thee\u003cbr\u003einto being.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079586201840,"sku":"2940013565029","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013565029_p0.jpg?v=1763582944","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013565029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}