{"product_id":"2940013850934","title":"True Stories from History and Biography","description":"Preface\u003cbr\u003eTHE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR\u003cbr\u003ePart I\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter I\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter II\u003cbr\u003e      THE LADY ARBELLA\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter III\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IV\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter V\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VI\u003cbr\u003e      THE PINE-TREE SHILLINGS\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VII\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VIII\u003cbr\u003e      THE INDIAN BIBLE\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IX\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter X\u003cbr\u003e      THE SUNKEN TREASURE\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter XI\u003cbr\u003ePart II\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter I\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter II\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter III\u003cbr\u003e      THE OLD-FASHIONED SCHOOL\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IV\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VI\u003cbr\u003e      THE REJECTED BLESSING\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VII\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VIII\u003cbr\u003e      THE PROVINCIAL MUSTER\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IX\u003cbr\u003e      THE ACADIAN EXILES\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter X\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter XI\u003cbr\u003ePart III\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter I\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter II\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter III\u003cbr\u003e      THE HUTCHINSON MOB\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IV\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter V\u003cbr\u003e      THE BOSTON MASSACRE\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VI\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VII\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VIII\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IX\u003cbr\u003e      THE TORY’S FAREWELL\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter X\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter XI\u003cbr\u003e      GRANDFATHER’S DREAM\u003cbr\u003eBiographical Stories\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter I\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter II\u003cbr\u003e      BENJAMIN WEST\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter III\u003cbr\u003e      SIR ISAAC NEWTON\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IV\u003cbr\u003e      SAMUEL JOHNSON\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter V\u003cbr\u003e      SAMUEL JOHNSON—CONTINUED.\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VI\u003cbr\u003e      OLIVER CROMWELL\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VII\u003cbr\u003e      BENJAMIN FRANKLIN\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter VIII\u003cbr\u003e      BENJAMIN FRANKLIN—CONTINUED\u003cbr\u003e   Chapter IX\u003cbr\u003e      QUEEN CHRISTINA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn writing this ponderous tome, the author’s desire has been to describe\u003cbr\u003ethe eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form\u003cbr\u003eand style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own\u003cbr\u003eaccord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a\u003cbr\u003eChair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of\u003cbr\u003eauthentic history. The Chair is made to pass from one to another of those\u003cbr\u003epersonages, of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to\u003cbr\u003ehave vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best\u003cbr\u003eenable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken\u003cbr\u003elegs, it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to\u003cbr\u003ethrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever a\u003cbr\u003ehistorical personage happens to be looking round for a seat.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is certainly no method, by which the shadowy outlines of departed\u003cbr\u003emen and women can he made to assume the hues of life more effectually,\u003cbr\u003ethan by connecting their images with the substantial and homely reality of\u003cbr\u003ea fireside chair. It causes us to feel at once, that these characters of\u003cbr\u003ehistory had a private and familiar existence, and were not wholly\u003cbr\u003econtained within that cold array of outward action, which we are compelled\u003cbr\u003eto receive as the adequate representation of their lives. If this\u003cbr\u003eimpression can be given, much is accomplished.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSetting aside Grandfather and his auditors, and excepting the adventures\u003cbr\u003eof the Chair, which form the machinery of the work, nothing in the ensuing\u003cbr\u003epages can be termed fictitious. The author, it is true, has sometimes\u003cbr\u003eassumed the license of filling up the outline of history with details, for\u003cbr\u003ewhich he has none but imaginative authority, but which, he hopes, do not\u003cbr\u003eviolate nor give a false coloring to the truth. He believes that, in this\u003cbr\u003erespect, his narrative will not be found to convey ideas and impressions,\u003cbr\u003eof which the reader may hereafter find it necessary to purge his mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author’s great doubt is, whether he has succeeded in writing a book\u003cbr\u003ewhich will be readable by the class for whom he intends it. To make a\u003cbr\u003elively and entertaining narrative for children, with such unmalleable\u003cbr\u003ematerial as is presented by the sombre, stern, and rigid characteristics\u003cbr\u003eof the Puritans and their descendants, is quite as difficult an attempt,\u003cbr\u003eas to manufacture delicate playthings out of the granite rocks on which\u003cbr\u003eNew England is founded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                 THE WHOLE HISTORY OF GRANDFATHER’S CHAIR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                         COMPLETE IN THREE PARTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrandfather had been sitting in his old arm-chair, all that pleasant\u003cbr\u003eafternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports, far off\u003cbr\u003eor near at hand. Sometimes you would have said, \"Grandfather is asleep;\"\u003cbr\u003ebut still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the\u003cbr\u003eyoung people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe heard the voice of Laurence, who had taken possession of a heap of\u003cbr\u003edecayed branches which the gardener had lopped from the fruit trees, and\u003cbr\u003ewas building a little hut for his cousin Clara and himself.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147647959280,"sku":"2940013850934","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013850934_p0.jpg?v=1763595532","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013850934","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}