The Lamplighter
10 best books like The Lamplighter (Maria Susanna Cummins): Mara, Daughter of the Nile, Stepping Heavenward, Alone Yet Not Alone, The Wide, Wide World, The Morgesons, Self-Raised, Teddy's Button, The Basket of Flowers: A Tale for the Young, The Hedge of Thorns, Titus: A Comrade of the Cross
| Author | Eloise Jarvis McGraw |
| ISBN | 0140319298 |
Mara is a proud and beautiful slave girl who yearns for freedom. In order to gain it, she finds herself playing the dangerous role of double spy for two arch enemies - each of whom supports a contender for the throne of Egypt.
Against her will, Mara finds herself falling in love with one of her masters,...
| Author | Elizabeth Payson Prentiss |
| ISBN | 1577483421 |
"Stepping Heavenward" is the fictional coming of age story of a young Christian girl named Katherine. The story follows her life from when she is sixteen, though courtship, engagement, marriage, having children, and the many challenges that she confronts in her adult life. This classic Christian...
| Author | Tracy Michele Leininger |
| ISBN | 1929241364 |
Autumn of 1755 bestowed to the Leiningers’ world, not only its rich beauties, but also a rewarding harvest. On this particular day the whole valley seemed to rejoice in the fullness of the season—but suddenly Barbara and Regina’s peaceful frontier life is changed forever. General Braddock...
| Author | Susan Bogert Warner |
| ISBN | 0935312668 |
First published in 1850 and exceeded in popularity then only by Uncle Tom's Cabin, this domestic epic narrates the seven-year pilgrimage of a girl sent out into the world at age ten by a dying mother and a careless father. Moved from relative to relative, Ellen Montgomery astonishes by remaining faithful...
| Author | Elizabeth Stoddard |
| ISBN | 0140436510 |
Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances,...
| Author | E.D.E.N. Southworth |
In this suspenseful sequel to Ishmael, you will follow the valiant perseverance of our hero, Ishmael Worth. From the sultry heat of Cuba to the gloomy crags of northern Scotland, Ishmael stands resolute in his commitment to those he loves. Whether he is wrestling with the icy hand of death or carefully...
| Author | Amy Le Feuvre |
| ISBN | 1584740272 |
Here is a story that will open a child's understanding of the spiritual battle within as Teddy learns that he is his own worst enemy. As a stubborn boy and girl refuse to back down from their selfish pride, one of the many lessons they learn is that they cannot win battles by force and hate, but by carrying...
| Author | Christoph von Schmid |
| ISBN | 1584740019 |
This first book of the Lamplighter Rare Collector's Series continues to be a best-seller. James, the king's gardener, teaches his 15-year-old daughter Mary all the principles of godliness through his flowers. She is falsely accused of stealing, and the penalty is death. Mary remembers her father...
| Author | Mary Martha Sherwood |
| ISBN | 1584740116 |
After a devotional study of the Hebrew word "shamar"(a primitive root) and its Greek equivalents, which included an in-depth look at most of the scriptures containing multiple nuances of its meaning, I began to mull over various applications.
While taking a breather, I was surprised to find...
| Author | Florence Morse Kingsley |
| ISBN | 1584740027 |
Well this one was... unexpected. I'm honestly not sure how to review it. It almost makes me feel like a bad Christian to give a book about Jesus two stars? But here goes. XP
I will say that while the plot line was okay, the writing was very subpar. The narrative jumped around in a confusing way, and...
| Author | Harold Bell Wright |
| ISBN | 1565541219 |
"Decidedly interesting"--The New York Times
"(A) thoroughly good novel"--The Boston Globe
Dick Falkner's childhood consisted of poverty and abuse from an alcoholic
father. Recognizing his life for what it was, he ran away from his home, but he
could not run away from all...
| Author | Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0140436766 |
Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chronicles the role of women in building the republic but also refocuses the emergent national literature on the lives, domestic mores, and values of American women.
For more than seventy...
| Author | E.D.E.N. Southworth |
| ISBN | 0813512964 |
E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different...
