Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
A Girl of the Limberlost: Large Print Edition for a better reading experience

A Girl of the Limberlost: Large Print Edition for a better reading experience

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 398868645X
ISBN13: 9783988686459
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: Jul 23 2025
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.94
Height: 0.76 Width: 8.27 Depth: 11.69
Language: English
ncluding an extensive annotation on the life of Gene Stratton-Porter. *** Set amid Indiana's vast Limberlost Swamp, this treasured children's classic mixes astute observations on nature with the struggles of growing up in the early 20th century. Harassed by her mother and scorned by her peers, Elnora Comstock finds solace in natural beauty along with friendship, independence, and romance.--Synopsis from Huffington Cornfields, soy fields, alfalfa fields ― Indiana has long been seen as an agricultural plain. But to make it a lucrative farming state, much of the land had to be deforested, leaving behind devastated habitats. The Limberlost, a wetland in northern Indiana, was mostly destroyed by drainage, logging and oil production. Gene Stratton-Porter, an early 20th-century naturalist and novelist, captured the fading beauty of the swamp in books like A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel about a smart, ambitious girl who lives in the dwindling wetland with her mother and pays for school by collecting local moth specimens to sell to naturalists. The book isn't exactly an environmentalist tract, but it makes the case It celebrates the beauty and richness of the swampland, while showing how easily economic forces push landowners to strip it away. *** The series Large Print Reader's Choice features classic books with a font size of at least 16 points. This font size is not only highly recommended and useful for visually impaired readers, but generally improves letter and word recognition and reading comprehension. Large print books make your reading experience a more satisfying one.

Also from

Stratton-Porter, Gene

View All

Also in

General Fiction

View All