Light in the Forest - Softcover

Conrad Richter

3.42

5,075 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1561374660 ISBN 13: 9781561374663

Publisher: Novel Units, 1999

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An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic.

When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.

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" Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter ' s uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past. " - The New York Times Book Review
" Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture. " - New York Herald Tribune
" Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country. " - The Yale Review

Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter s uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past. The New York Times Book Review
Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture. New York Herald Tribune
Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country. The Yale Review"

-Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter's uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past.- -The New York Times Book Review
-Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture.- -New York Herald Tribune
-Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country.- -The Yale Review

"Rebellion, glowing vitality. . . . The spirit of the wild frontier. . . . An absorbing story, marked by Richter's uncanny skill in recapturing the atmosphere of the past." -The New York Times Book Review
"Memorable . . . Richter tells the story with [a] glowing passion for unspoiled nature. . . . It is impossible to doubt the detailed . . . accuracy of the picture." -New York Herald Tribune

"Good reading for anyone curious about the past of our country." -The Yale Review

From the Publisher:

Everyman’s Library Children’s Classics offers a superb collection of the world’s greatest children’s books in handsome full cloth hardcover editions. This library brings back into print such well-loved illustrators as Ivan Bilibin, Heath Robinson, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Nicolas Bentley and Walter Crane. Each book has the added feature of beautiful gold stamping on the front and spine and a silk ribbon marker – making them the ideal gift for any child at any time of the year.

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