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The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This volume includes a variety of essays and stories that reflect on themes related to New England life, nature, and personal experiences, capturing both the humorous and serious aspects of daily existence.

"The May Flower" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a collection of sketches and miscellaneous writings. This volume includes a variety of essays and stories that reflect on themes related to New England life, nature, and personal experiences, capturing both the humorous and serious aspects of daily existence.

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And so I am to write a story—but of what, and where? Shall it be radiant with the sky of Italy? or eloquent with the beau ideal of Greece? Shall it breathe odor and languor from the orient, or chivalry from the occident? or gayety from France? or vigor from England? No, no; these are all too old—too romance-like—too obviously picturesque for me. No; let me turn to my own land—my own New England; the land of bright fires and strong hearts; the land of deeds, and not of words; the land of fruits, and not of flowers; the land often spoken against, yet always respected; "the latchet of whose shoes the nations of the earth are not worthy to unloose."

Now, from this very heroic apostrophe, you may suppose that I have something very heroic to tell. By no means. It is merely a little introductory breeze of patriotism, such as occasionally brushes over every mind, bearing on its wings the remembrance of all we ever loved or cherished in the land of our early years; and if it should seem to be rodomontade to any people in other parts of the earth, let them only imagine it to be said about "Old Kentuck," old England, or any other corner of the world in which they happened to be born, and they will find it quite rational.

Contents

  1. 01Uncle Lot.
  2. 02Love versus Law.
  3. 03The Tea Rose.
  4. 04Trials of a Housekeeper.
  5. 05Little Edward.
  6. 06Aunt Mary.
  7. 07Frankness.
  8. 08The Sabbath.
  9. 09Sketches from a Note Book of an Elderly Gentleman.
  10. 10Another Scene.
  11. 11Sketch Second.
  12. 12Sketch Third.
  13. 13Let Every Man Mind His Own Business.
  14. 14Cousin William.
  15. 15The Ministration of Our Departed Friends.
  16. 16A New Year's Revery.
  17. 17Mrs. A. And Mrs. B.;
  18. 18Or, What She Thinks About It.
  19. 19Christmas; or, the Good Fairy.
  20. 20Earthly Care a Heavenly Discipline.
  21. 21Conversation on Conversation.
  22. 22How Do We Know?
  23. 23Which Is the Liberal Man?
  24. 24The Elder's Feast.
  25. 25A Tradition of Laodicea.
  26. 26Little Fred, the Canal Boy.
  27. 27Part I.
  28. 28Part II.
  29. 29The Canal Boat.
  30. 30Feeling.
  31. 31The Seamstress.
  32. 32Old Father Morris.
  33. 33A Sketch from Nature.
  34. 34The Two Altars,
  35. 35Or Two Pictures in One.
  36. 36I. The Altar of Liberty, or 1776.
  37. 37II. The Altar of ——, or 1850.
  38. 38A Scholar's Adventures in the Country.
  39. 39"Woman, Behold Thy Son!"
  40. 40The Coral Ring.
  41. 41Art and Nature.
  42. 42Children.
  43. 43How to Make Friends with Mammon.
  44. 44A Scene in Jerusalem.
  45. 45The Old Meeting House.
  46. 46Sketch from the Note Book of an Old Gentleman.
  47. 47The New-Year's Gift.
  48. 48The Old Oak of Andover.
  49. 49A Revery.
  50. 50Our Wood Lot in Winter.
  51. 51Poems.
  52. 52The Charmer.
  53. 53Pilgrim's Song in the Desert.
  54. 54Mary at the Cross.
  55. 55Christian Peace.
  56. 56Abide in Me and I in You.
  57. 57The Soul's Answer.
  58. 58When I Awake I Am Still with Thee.
  59. 59Christ's Voice in the Soul.
  60. 60The End.

About this edition

Author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
407 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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