Bits about Home Matters

by Helen Hunt Jackson

EN·~5 hours·40 chapters

Chapters

40 total

The Inhumanities of Parents--Corporal Punishment.

11:02

The Inhumanities of Parents--Needless Denials.

15:38

The Inhumanities of Parents--Rudeness.

16:03

Breaking the Will.

15:33

The Reign of Archelaus.

12:37

The Awkward Age.

8:21

A Day with a Courteous Mother.

8:28

Children in Nova Scotia.

6:56

The Republic of the Family.

9:23

The Ready-to-Halts.

5:46

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Description

The book opens with a harrowing account of a minister who brutally killed his three‑year‑old son for refusing to pray, a story that forces the reader to confront the darkest

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Duration

~5 hours (297K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Distributed Proofreaders

Release date

Dec 1, 2003

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10516

Subjects

Home HQ

About the author

Helen Hunt Jackson

1830–1885

Remembered for vivid poems, popular fiction, and fierce moral conviction, this 19th-century American writer brought literary grace to one of the hardest political subjects of her time. Her work moves between intimate feeling and outspoken reform, especially in defense of Native American rights.

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