Author:Elbridge Streeter Brooks

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Elbridge Streeter Brooks
(1846–1902)

American author, editor, and critic; chiefly remembered as an author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction for children, much of it on historical or patriotic subjects. His byline for most of his writing was Elbridge S. Brooks.

Elbridge Streeter Brooks

Bibliography[edit]

Century Book series[edit]

  • The Century Book for Young Americans; Showing How a Party of Boys and Girls Who Knew How to Use Their Eyes and Ears Found Out All About the Government of the United States (1894) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Century Book of Famous Americans; the Story of a Young People’s Pilgrimage to Historic Homes (1896) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Century Book of the American Revolution (1897) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Century Book of the American Colonies; the Story of the Pilgrimage of a Party of Young People to the Sites of the Earliest American Colonies (1900) (Google Books e-text)

Biography[edit]

  • The Life-Work of Elbridge Gerry Brooks, Minister in the Universalist Church (1881) (Google Books e-text)
  • Historic Boys; Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times (1885) (Google Books e-text)
  • Historic Girls; Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times (1887) (Google Books e-text of 1911 edition) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[1])
  • Young People of History; Their Endeavors, Their Achievements and Their Times (1914; omnibus edition of Historic Boys and Historic Girls)
  • The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral (1892) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[2])
  • Great Men's Sons; Who They Were, What They Did, and How They Turned Out; a Glimpse at the Sons of the World's Mightiest Men from Socrates to Napoleon (1895) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Boy Life of Napoleon : Afterwards Emperor of the French (1895)
  • The Story of Miriam of Magdala, Sometimes Called the Magdalen (1895)
  • The True Story of George Washington; Called the Father of His Country (1895) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Inspiring History of George Washington, First President of the United States (1896)
  • The True Story of Abraham Lincoln, the American; Told for Boys and Girls (1896) (Google Books e-text)
  • The True Story of U. S. Grant, the American Soldier, Told for Boys and Girls (1897)
  • True stories of great Americans for young Americans : telling in simple language suited to boys and girls, the inspiring stories of the lives of George Washington, John Paul Jones, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Robert E. Lee, George Peabody, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Jas. A. Garfield, Robert Fulton, Cyrus W. Field, Thos. A. Edison (1897) (Google Books e-text)
  • The True Story of Benjamin Franklin, the American Statesman (1898)
  • Historic Americans; Sketches of the Lives and Characters of Certain Famous Americans Held Most in Reverence by the Boys and Girls of America (1899)
  • The True Story of Lafayette, Called the Friend of America (1899)
  • The Heroic Life of Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator (1902)
  • The Heroic Life of General George Washington, First President of the United States (1902)
  • The Heroic Life of General U.S. Grant : General of the Armies of the United States (1902)
  • The Heroic Life of John Paul Jones, the First Captain of the United States Navy (1902)

History[edit]

  • Storied Holidays; a Cycle of Historic Red-Letter Days (1887)
  • The Story of the American Indian; His Origin, Development, Decline and Destiny (1887) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Story of New York (1888) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Story of the American Sailor in Active Service on Merchant Vessel and Man-of-War (1888) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Story of the American Soldier in War and Peace (1889) (Google Books e-text)
  • The Story of the United States, Told for Young People (1891)
  • The True Story of the United States of America; Told for Young People (1897)
  • The American Sailor; Being the Complete and Connected Story of the Development and Deeds of the American Sailor on Merchant Vessel and Man-of-War from the Discovery of America to 1900 (1899)
  • The American Soldier; Being the Story of the Fightingman of America, From the Conquistador to Rough Rider; From 1492 to 1900 (1899)
  • The Story of Our War with Spain (1899)
  • The Story of the Nineteenth Century of the Christian Era (1900) (Google Books e-text)

Operetta[edit]

  • David the Son of Jesse, or, The Peasant, the Princess, and the Prophet; a Sacred Operetta in Two Parts (with Ellsworth C. Phelps) (1883) (Google Books e-text)
  • A Dream of the Centuries, and Other Entertainments for Parlor and Hall (with others) (1889) (Google Books e-text)
  • The land of Nod, an Operetta for Young Folks (1928)

Memorial books[edit]

  • Longfellow Remembrance Book; a Memorial for the Poet’s Reader-Friends (1888)
  • Tennyson Remembrance Book; a Memorial for the Poet’s Reader Friends (1893)

Other[edit]

  • In No-Man’s Land; a Wonder Story (1885)
  • An aggressive Universalism : an address delivered before the New York Universalist Club, February 18, 1886 (1886)
  • Chivalric Days; and the Boys and Girls Who Helped to Make Them (1886)
  • In Leisler’s Times; an Historical Story of Knickerbocker New York (1886) (Google Books e-text)
  • A Son of Issachar; a Romance of the Days of Messias (1890)
  • Great Cities of the World (1890)
  • Golden years : stories and poems (1892)
  • Heroic Happenings Told in Verse and Story (1893)
  • A Boy of the First Empire (1895)
  • The Long Walls; an American Boy’s Adventures in Greece; a Story of Digging and Discovery, Temples and Treasure (with John Alden) (1896) (Google Books e-text)
  • Under the Tamaracks, or, A Summer with General Grant at the Thousand Islands (1896)
  • A Son of the Revolution; Being the Story of Young Tom Edwards, Adventurer, and How He Labored for Liberty and Fought it Out With His Conscience in the Days of Burr's Conspiracy (1898)
  • Children all; a book of stories and verses for little people (1898)
  • The Master of the Strong Hearts; a Story of Custer’s Last Rally (1898) (Google Books e-text of 1900 edition)
  • In Blue and White; the Adventures and Misadventures of Humphrey VanDyne, Trooper in Washington’s Life-Guard (1899) (Google Books e-text)
  • On Wood Cove Island; or a Summer with Longfellow on the New England Coast (1899)
  • Stories of the Old Bay State (1899) (Google Books e-text)
  • In defence of the flag; a boy’s adventures in Spain and the West Indies during the battle year of our war with Spain (1900)
  • The Godson of Lafayette; Being the Story of Young Joe Harvey, and How He Found the Way to Duty in the Days of Webster and Jackson and the Conspiracy of That American Adventurer Eleazer Williams Sometimes Called “The False Dauphin” (1900)
  • With Lawton and Roberts : a Boy’s Adventures in the Philippines and the Transvaal (1900) (Google Books e-text)
  • Under the Allied Flags a Boy’s Adventures in the International War against the Boxers and China (1901)


Works[edit]

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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