ClassicNovels

A novel, 1904

Freckles

Gene Stratton-Porter

Freckles, a lonely young man with one hand and no family history he considers his own, asks McLean for work guarding timber in the Limberlost swamp.

20 chapters · about 5 hours

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How it begins

Freckles came down the corduroy that crosses the lower end of the Limberlost. At a glance he might have been mistaken for a tramp, but he was truly seeking work.

Chapter 1: Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is HiredKeep reading →

About the book

Length

20 chapters

First published

1904

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Contents

  1. Chapter 1: Wherein Great Risks Are Taken and the Limberlost Guard Is Hired13 min
  2. Chapter 2: Wherein Freckles Proves His Mettle and Finds Friends14 min
  3. Chapter 3: Wherein a Feather Falls and a Soul Is Born25 min
  4. Chapter 4: Wherein Freckles Faces Trouble Bravely and Opens the Way for New Experiences37 min
  5. Chapter 5: Wherein an Angel Materializes and a Man Worships17 min
  6. Chapter 6: Wherein a Fight Occurs and Women Shoot Straight16 min
  7. Chapter 7: Wherein Freckles Wins Honor and Finds a Footprint on the Trail9 min
  8. Chapter 8: Wherein Freckles Meets a Man of Affairs and Loses Nothing by the Encounter18 min
  9. Chapter 9: Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan and Freckles Comes to the Rescue9 min
  10. Chapter 10: Wherein Freckles Strives Mightily and the Swamp Angel Rewards Him9 min
  11. Chapter 11: Wherein the Butterflies Go on a Spree and Freckles Informs the Bird Woman12 min
  12. Chapter 12: Wherein Black Jack Captures Freckles and the Angel Captures Jack21 min
  13. Chapter 13: Wherein the Angel Releases Freckles, and the Curse of Black Jack Falls upon Her17 min
  14. Chapter 14: Wherein Freckles Nurses a Heartache and Black Jack Drops Out17 min
  15. Chapter 15: Wherein Freckles and the Angel Try Taking a Picture, and Little Chicken Furnishes the Subject10 min
  16. Chapter 16: Wherein the Angel Locates a Rare Tree and Dines with the Gang13 min
  17. Chapter 17: Wherein Freckles Offers His Life for His Love and Gets a Broken Body18 min
  18. Chapter 18: Wherein Freckles refuses Love Without Knowledge of Honorable Birth, and the Angel Goes in Quest of it21 min
  19. Chapter 19: Wherein Freckles Finds His Birthright and the Angel Loses Her Heart15 min
  20. Chapter 20: Wherein Freckles returns to the Limberlost, and Lord O'More Sails for Ireland Without Him15 min

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