Summer Days

Baker, George M. (George Melville), 1832-1890Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 52K words
Chapters: 6

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Summer Days by George M. BakerAuthor: Baker, George M. (George Melville), 1832-1890,Language: English, Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres, Release Date: Jun 8, 2015

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Summer Days is a juvenile literary work by George M. Baker (1832–1890), released free through Project Gutenberg and classified under Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres. As a work by a nineteenth-century American author, it preserves the language style and narrative rhythm of children's literature of that era, offering reference value for studying early English juvenile reading and understanding Project Gutenberg's eBook ecosystem. The free electronic edition is easy to search and cite, making it suitable as light reading material in the original English. As a public-domain eBook, its typesetting and annotations vary by edition; readers should focus on the language experience rather than expect modern introductions or detailed background notes, so it is better suited as supplementary reading for extensive English reading and textual study than as a systematic literature textbook.

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Baker, George M. (George Melville), 1832-1890 Author

George Melville Baker (1832–1890) was an American playwright best known for his one-act farces and short stage pieces. Public information about his life and nationality is limited, and surviving accounts focus mainly on his plays themselves. The eighteen works held here lean toward light, humorous stage sketches: Gentlemen of the Jury, Poison, and A Mysterious Disappearance are all labeled farces, relying on misunderstanding, coincidence, and exaggerated characters for comic effect, and are suited to amateur companies and home performance. He also wrote three-act melodrama such as Nevada or, The Lost Mine, along with seasonal and children's pieces like Summer Days and The Merry Christmas of the Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe. His work balances entertainment with practical stageability, in plain language and compact structure, and is representative of nineteenth-century American popular drama publishing.