Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Name: Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Mary Mapes Dodge
ISBN: 9781455106530

Author: Mary Mapes Dodge

Narrator: Christine Marshall

Unabridged: 9 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Children's Fiction

Synopsis

Set in The Netherlands, this story concerns the experiences of the impoverished Brinker family. The good deeds of the Brinker children, Hans and Gretel, help to restore their fathers health and bring about their own good fortune.

About Mary Mapes Dodge

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) was the acknowledged leader in the field of juvenile fiction during her lifetime. From 1873 until her death, she edited and contributed to the children’s magazine St. Nicholas, to which she attracted such writers as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Rudyard Kipling. She also authored the short-fiction collection Irvington Stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe (NOT RECEIVING NOTIFICATIONS)

Hans Brinker was written by Mary Mapes Dodge in 1865. My copy is a first edition from 1925, published by Saalfield Publishing Company which is no longer in business. Reading a book that is nearly 100 years old sure took me back in time. As I carefully turned the brown, brittle pages and read the sto......more

Goodreads review by Werner

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831-1905) was, at the time she wrote this novel, a widowed mom who'd moved back in with her well-to-do family after the death of her financially-embarrassed husband. Herself well educated by private tutors, she originally began to write educational short stories for her own kids;......more