The Littlest Rebel
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in early American children's literature and Civil War stories
- Parents and teachers looking for English material for parent-child reading or classroom read-alouds
- English learners who enjoy warm family narratives of moderate length
- Readers studying the history of children's literature who need public-domain texts for reference
Not a good fit for
- Military history readers seeking rigorous historical verification or war details
- Literary readers who prefer complex adult themes and modern narrative techniques
- Young readers sensitive to plots involving war and family separation
Reading tips
- For parent-child reading, explain the background first, then read aloud in sections and discuss the child's perspective
- English learners can read the middle plot first, then go back to the beginning to sort out the characters' relationships
- Read alongside basic facts about the Civil War to understand the era in which the story takes place
- After reading, note the little girl's emotional changes and appreciate the narrative role of the innocent perspective
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Edward Peple (1869–1924) was an American playwright. Public information about his early life and education is limited; what can be confirmed is that he was active on the American commercial stage, writing several Broadway comedies and melodramas that won audiences over through tight stagecraft and accessible dramatic conflict. His representative works include A Night Out and The Littlest Rebel. The former is an urban comedy, while the latter is set against the American Civil War and tells a warm story centered on family and a child; it was later adapted into a film, allowing his plays to reach a wider audience. Peple's output was modest, but his works range from everyday humor to sentiment, showing his grasp of stage rhythm and popular taste.
