The Land of Pluck: Stories and Sketches for Young Folk

Mary Mapes Dodge

Jan 1894 · Cosimo Classics

About this ebook

"Far over the sea is a famous little country generally known as Holland; but that name, even if it should mean Hollow land How land? does not describe it half so well as this-The Little Land of Pluck." -Mary Mapes Dodge, The Land of Pluck (1894) While the author of The Land of Pluck (1894), Mary Mapes Dodge, began her career as the editor of a children's magazine, she started writing stories to support her children after her husband's death. The first half of this collection, "The Land of Pluck," is organized as a book in its own right, consisting of previously published stories about Holland. The stories and sketches composing the second part were published in this book for the first time. The frontispiece "Two Boys of Holland" has been engraved from a fine Dutch painting, attributed to Albert Cuyp, one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters. The rest of the stories are also illustrated with beautiful line drawings.

About the author

MARY MAPES DODGE (1831-1905), author and editor, was born in New York City. She served as editor of the children's magazine St. Nicholas, to which she attracted such writers as Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. She also authored many books, including The Irvington Stories (1864), Hans Brinker (1865), and The Land of Pluck (1894.)