Eventful Narratives

Huntington, Oliver Boardman, 1823-1907Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 176K words
Chapters: 18

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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.Eventful Narratives by Robert Aveson and Oliver Boardman HuntingtonAuthor: Huntington, Oliver Boardman, 1823-1907,Language: English, Class: BX: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Churches, Church movements, Release Date: Jul 9, 2015

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This book is a free e-book in the Project Gutenberg collection, an English narrative work co-authored by Robert Aveson and Oliver Boardman Huntington and classified under topics related to the Christian church movement. As a public-domain e-book, it preserves the original form of nineteenth-century religious narrative texts and is a useful resource for readers studying the lives of early church figures, the genre of faith narrative, and the tradition of English religious writing. The text presents events and personal experiences in narrative form, and its language bears the marks of its era. It is suitable as supplementary reading for research in religious history, church history, and English literature, and may also be consulted by readers interested in early Mormon history and migration narratives. Because this is an electronically reset edition, readers should consult the version notes and annotations to understand the background. Overall, it is better suited to research-oriented and topic-specific reading than to casual leisure reading.

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Judging by the title and classification, it is a narrative work centered on religious figures and events, with a memoir-like and documentary character rather than fiction. The exact genre should be judged from the main text; as you read, pay attention to the narrator's perspective and the chronological cues.

Can I understand it without a religious background?

You can read it, but your depth of understanding will be affected. It is advisable to first learn the basic background of the nineteenth-century American church movement and then read the main text; look up proper nouns as needed. Treating it as a historical text rather than a doctrinal work will lower the barrier to reading.

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About the author

Huntington, Oliver Boardman, 1823-1907 Author · American · 1823–1907

Oliver Boardman Huntington (1823–1907) was an American Mormon pioneer and missionary. He took part in the Mormon migration and settlement of the American West and was long involved in church affairs. His diaries record in detail his personal observations and church activities during this period, leaving valuable firsthand material for the study of the nineteenth-century Mormon movement and the development of the West. The library holds one of his works, Eventful Narratives, which draws largely on his own experiences; its narrative is plain and concrete, bearing clear marks of its time. Public information about his early life and education is limited, and his life and writing are known mainly through his diaries and this work.