Novels by Gene Stratton-Porter: Free Download Links!
Gene Stratton-Porter was a naturalist and author whose prose should be of interest to anyone. Her writing is clear, her descriptions are colorful, and her characters are engaging. Her observations of the natural world are woven into her stories to build a world the reader can feel through the pages.
These books all earn an official librarian stamp of approval. They would now likely be categorized as "Young Adult Literature" if they were published today, but don't hold that against them. Take a look—or a listen, as the case may be.
Freckles (1904)
Project Gutenberg e-book
LibriVox audiobook
A Girl of the Limberlost (1909)
Project Gutenberg e-book
Project Gutenberg audiobook
LibriVox audiobook
Laddie: A True Blue Story (1913)
Project Gutenberg e-book
LibriVox Audiobook
If you prefer a hard copy, remember to check your local library!
Gene Stratton-Porter's cabin at Wildflower Woods, via the Wikipedia article on the author.
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I grew up on that lake in the summers.
Sylvan Lake / Rome City, Indiana
The red square is the GSP cabin. (Pictured in the main post.)
The red circle at the top was my great aunt & uncle's place.
The red circle at the bottom was Grandma & Grandpa's place.
Damn, I miss those days. Thanks for bringing back sweet memories!
The odd synchronicity of the internet strikes again.
Thanks for the post and info. I just spent a bit of time reading about the author once I saw your post. Very fascinating person. Thanks for sharing her works here. Plan to check them out. Love that house in the woods as well. Not your average log cabin...
It's not as shocking as seeing what British literature calls an aristocrat's "country cottage" though :D
I can imagine..."a paltry 27 rooms, and only 3 baths". The world is definitely skewed.
Speaking of "skewed," only 3 people have actually read this post despite 83 upvotes. That would be you, me, and my sock puppet account @goodguygreg. His view didn't appear until he actually opened the Steem page. Testing first by opening the page on Busy.org and steemdb don't change the view count, so it is possible others have read it without triggering the counter, but the string of upvotes I got over a very short time span indicates the votebot infestation is still going strong. No flags yet though, so there's that.
Skewed and a bit frustrating. When you get 83 votes and only 3 people actually OPEN a post, let alone read it, is very frustrating. I don't fully understand all the in and outs of this site, but seems if the bots don't vote, I can get 15 votes total sometimes. And the view counter is even MORE of a bummer.
And what is really worrisome, is that in a week or two, when the number of post limit is off, I doubt anyone will see a post we put out. I fear TONS of internet copy junk coming up here, and pushing a post to the bottom in minutes. Unless you have a dynamite following...who will see anything? It should prove interesting, indeed. I don't think the unlimited posting will survive the garbage storm. I greatly prefer the original idea, of quality content. Then again, this is an experiment, and I understand they need more interaction on the site. At least from what I understand. I've babbled on here long enough, have a good night.
Librivox is a very cool project that I have been following for quite some time. You wont get the latest books, but you can get plenty of treasures from the past. I really appreciate the fact that they also do audio books, many made by volunteers. Thanks for sharing this with the steemit community!
"Laddie" is one of my all-time favorite books. I found "Freckles" and "Daughter of the Land" to be a little tedious, and somehow annoying, yet reading them was not a waste of time. I need to re-read "Girl of the Limberlost", now that you have reminded me of it. It has been a LONG time since I read it. It is so cool that aunt-deb is familiar with that area! I'd like to visit it some day.
If I'm not mistaken, Freckles was one of her first books.