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Brave and True, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Brave and True Short stories for children by G. M. Fenn and Others
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 4, 2007 [EBook #21292]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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Brave and True, Short stories for children by G M Fenn and others. _______________________________________________________________________
Although Fenn's name appears on the cover, and on the title-page, he does not appear to have written more than one of the stories, and the story that gave its name to the book was not by him. There are several stories that were not signed by an author's name, so we have a mystery there. They were probably just using Fenn's name to sell the book.
The target audience appears to be seven- or eight-year-olds; certainly not the sixteen-year-olds that Fenn generally aimed for. There are twelve items, three of which are rather trivial "poems". The nine short stories all have the theme "Brave and True", and vary in their settings from small boarding-schools in the Home Counties, to the Rocky Mountains.
We had originally intended to produce this book merely as a pdf (which is of course still available), but with an effo