The Parkhurst Boys, and other stories of school life | Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893)
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Author: Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893)
Added by: NicholasHodson
Added Date: 2007-01-15
Publication Date: 1880
Language: English
Subjects: Athelstane; Talbot; Baines; Reed; Parkhurst; Boys; PDF; HTML;, genealogy
Publishers: Athelstane e-Books, London, England, United Kingdom
Collections: folkscanomy fiction, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 311
PPI Count: 72
PDF Count: 2
Total Size: 135.36 MB
PDF Size: 88.38 MB
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Year: 1880
Contributor: Nick Hodson
License: Unknown License
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Media Type: texts
Description
This is a collection of short stories and articles, mostly about boys at school. There are four groups of these stories: seven about a school called Parkhurst, detailing major events such as matches and boat races.
The second section consists of eleven discourses on different types of boy, such as "The Sneak". The third section contains twelve stories about boys who have played their part in English History, such as the two young "Princes in the Tower", Dick Whittington, Edward the Sixth, and so on.
The final section consists of seven general stories of greater length than the foregoing.
The whole book, though not really long, is quite amusing, though of course very dated. You’ll enjoy it. I personally prefer to listen to these books.
REED, Talbot Baines (1852-93). English author of books for boys, born in London, the son of Sir Charles Reed (1819-91), chairman of the London School Board. He became head of his father's firm of typefounders, and wrote books on the history of printing (such as History of the Old English Letter-foundries (1887). His robust, moral, but entertaining school stories first appeared in the Boy's Own Paper. They include The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's (1881), The Master of the Shell (1887), and Cockhouse at Fellsgarth (1891).
A PDF of scans and an HTML version of this book are provided. We also provide a plain TEXT version and full instructions for using this to make your own audiobook. To find these click on the PDF, HTML or TXT links on the left.
These transcriptions of books by various nineteenth century authors of instructive books for teenagers, were made during the period 1997 to the present day by Athelstane e-Books. Most of the books are concerned with the sea, but in any case all will give a good idea of life in the nineteenth century, and sometimes earlier than that. This of course includes attitudes prevalent at the time, but frowned upon nowadays.
We used a Hewlett-Packard scanner, a Plustek OpticBook 3600 scanner or a Nikkon Coolpix 5700 camera to scan the pages. We then made a pdf which we used to assist with editing the OCRed text.
To make a text version we used TextBridge Pro 98 or ABBYY Finereader 7 or 8 to produce a first draft of the text, and Athelstane software to find misreads and improve the text. We proof-read the chapters, and then made a CD with the book read aloud by either Fonix ISpeak or TextAloud MP3. The last step enables us to hear and correct most of the errors that may have been missed by the other steps, as well as entertaining us during the work of transcription.
The resulting text can be read either here at the Internet Archive or at www.athelstane.co.uk