The Dutchman's Fireside
Series: Masterworks of Literature Ser
Publisher: NCUP
Published: January 28, 1966
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780808401117
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects; Non-Classifiable; Nonfiction - General; Literature: Classics
First sentence: "Somewhere about the time of the old French war," there resided on the rich border that skirts the Hudson, not a hundred miles from the good city of Albany, a family of some distinction, which we shall call Vancour, consisting of three brothers whose names were Egbert, Dennis, and Ariel, or Auriel as it was pronounced by the Dutch of that day.