In Doors and Out: or, Views from the Chimney Corner

Fireside sketches and moral tales for young readers by the man who invented the American boys' series book, writing here in a quieter key than the adventures that made him. This edition binds 43 plates after Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Albert Bierstadt and others, alongside seven in-text illustr...

Oliver Optic (1822-1897) was the pen name of William Taylor Adams, an American writer and schoolmaster born in Medway, Massachusetts. He wrote over a hundred books and more than a thousand stories for young readers, and effectively created the American juvenile series. His works include The Boat ...