Fiction · 1865
Hans Brinker
Or, The Silver Skates
Hans Brinker, first published in 1865, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Hans and Gretel
- Holland
- The Silver Skates
- Hans and Gretel Find a Friend
- Shadows in the Home
- Sunbeams
- Hans Has His Way
- Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin
- The Festival of Saint Nicholas
- What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam
- Big Manias and Little Oddities
- On the Way to Haarlem
- A Catastrophe
- Hans
- Homes
- Haarlem—The Boys Hear Voices
- The Man with Four Heads
- Friends in Need
- On the Canal
- Jacob Poot Changes the Plan
- Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare
- The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous
- Before the Court
- The Beleaguered Cities
- Leyden
- The Palace in the Wood
- The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess
- Through the Hague
- A Day of Rest
- Homeward Bound
- Boys and Girls
- The Crisis
- Gretel and Hilda
- The Awakening
- Bones and Tongues
- A New Alarm
- The Father’s Return
- The Thousand Guilders
- Glimpses
- Looking for Work
- The Fairy Godmother
- The Mysterious Watch
- A Discovery
- The Race
- Joy in the Cottage
- Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs
- Broad Sunshine
- Conclusion
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About the author
1830–1905 · Victorian
Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) was born in New York City and turned to writing to support her two young sons after her husband's early death. She is best remembered for Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates (1865), a novel of Dutch life and ice-skating culture written, by her own account, entirely from research rather than firsthand travel — she did not visit the Netherlands herself until decades after its publication. In 1873 she became the founding editor of St. Nicholas Magazine, a children's periodical she led for over thirty years and shaped into one of the most influential publications of its kind, printing early or serialized work by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, and Rudyard Kipling among many others. She died in Onteora Park, New York, at seventy-four.
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