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The close-knit Carey family is devastated by their father's death of typhoid fever, but with inexhaustible optimism and courage the group manages to continue to enriche not only its own life but also that of the community.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
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About the book
- First published
- 1911
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Foundation for American Christian Education, Houghton Mifflin Company, Hard Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781417911431
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“BY and by there came along a flock of petrels, who are Mother Carey's own chickens. . . .”
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