Three Children’s Novels

by Christopher Pearse Cranch
Edited by Greta D. Little and Joel Myerson

Reviews

“A valuable contribution to our expanding collection of nineteenth-century American children’s literature . . . Little and Myerson are to be congratulated for bringing this forgotten American author back into the limelight.”
—The Lion and the Unicorn

“The Last of the Huggermuggers (1856), Kobboltozo (1857), and The Legend of Dr. Theophilus (never before published) will be of special interest to scholars of American Romanticism, children’s literature, and fantasy.”
—American Literature


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In his day, Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813–1892) was a well-known figure in American arts and letters, with close ties to the New England Transcendentalists. His most enduring achievements are his novels for children. Collected here for the first time in one volume, these three works—The Last of the Huggermuggers, Kobboltozo: A Sequel to the Last of the Huggermuggers, and The Legend of Dr. Theophilus; or, The Enchanted Clothes—establish Cranch as a pioneer in American fantasy fiction.

Huggermuggers (1856) and Kobboltozo (1857) went through several printings during the last half of the nineteenth century but were not reissued until the publication of this volume in 1983. These novels relate the escapades of a shipwrecked American boy, Jacky Cable, and the gentle giants and evil dwarfs who inhabit the island on which he is marooned. The manuscript of Cranch’s last unpublished novel, The Legend of Dr. Theophilus, disappeared around 1870 and did…

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Page count: 200 pp.
Trim size: 5.5 x 8.5
  

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6/1/2010

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Greta D. Little is a professor emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina. Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature Emeritus at the University of South Carolina.