Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories

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"Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories" is a collection of New England–set tales by Harriet Beecher Stowe that blend regional folklore, humor, and moral reflection through the storytelling of the character Sam Lawson.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
short story collection
author Harriet Beecher Stowe
containsElement folkloric anecdotes
moral reflection
regional dialect
countryOfOrigin United States
culturalContext 19th-century New England Protestant culture
explores folk beliefs
social customs in New England villages
featuresCharacter Sam Lawson
genre folklore
humor
local color writing
moral tale
regional fiction
hasCharacterType New England villagers
Yankee storyteller
hasTheme New England folklore
community life
everyday rural life
humor and wit
morality
religion
storytelling
intendedAudience general readership
language English
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement American local color movement
literaryPeriod 19th-century American literature
literarySetting New England
narrativeFrameCharacter Sam Lawson
narrativeMode framed storytelling
narrativePerspective first-person storytelling by Sam Lawson
portrays New England village culture
primaryTone humorous
relatedWorkByAuthor Oldtown Folks
The Minister's Wooing
secondaryTone didactic
settingRegion New England countryside
settingType small town
workOf Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
The Ghost in the Mill ("Oldtown Fireside Stories")
includedIn
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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