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The Lamplighter (Rare Collector's Series)

Maria Susanna Cummins

Hardcover | Pages: 256 pages

Rating: 4.07 | 902 Users | 76 Reviews

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Original Title:	The Lamplighter, or, An orphan girl's struggles and triumphs
ISBN:	1584740108 (ISBN13: 9781584740100)
Characters:	Gertrude, Trueman Flint, William Sullivan, Emily Graham, Dr. Jeremy, Isabel Clinton
Setting:	United States of America

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The Lamplighter, one of the more popular books in the country when it was released in the mid-19th century, is an engaging story of an undisciplined and unloved girl who has her life transformed, by Providence, through the love of strangers, whose ties to her are greater than anyone initially suspects. It is well told and well written. It does start off slow, but moves fast after the girl -- Gertrude, or "Gerty" -- grows up. The last half of the book is, in particular, hard to put down. The "surprises" in the book are predictable, but the predictability is made up for in joy and the rewarding of goodness. It is primarily a story of the fruit of gratefulness, and secondarily a love story, though some may reverse the two. It is a religious book; the Bible is appropriately exalted. But a warning: While the third-person narrator rightly declares very early in the book that Christ died for Gerty, the two subsequent statements to the young Gerty, from two of the most noble characters, about how she might obtain a heavenly home instruct her "if you're good" and "if you try to be good and love everybody." Such instructions, which no character bothers to correct, are a rejection of the gift offered in the form of Christ's fully effective atoning sacrifice on the cross, and perhaps stem from the author's position, according to one brief biography, as a Sunday School teacher in a Unitarian church.

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Title	:	The Lamplighter (Rare Collector's Series)
Author	:	Maria Susanna Cummins
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	January 28th 2005 by Lamplighter Publishing (first published 1854)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Christian Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Christian

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A nice, Dickens-esque read. I particularly enjoyed the first half and the relationship between the old lamplighter and the poor girl, Gerty, who he takes under his care. The second half settled into a rather slow romance.

So, I had to pick a novel to read for my Early American Lit class, which is how I ended up reading The Lamplighter. My initial thoughts were that I was going to completely hate it, because honestly, I don't really enjoy classic literature. I find most of it boring and monotonous, and based on the short stuff I'd already had to read for the class, the idea of an early American novel just seemed like torture. So, imagine my surprised when I started reading and didn't completely hate it. Yes, the

Usually I have already decided how many stars I'm going to give a novel by the time I'm halfway through it. This earned a solid 3 stars in my head, because even though it was kind of going nowhere, I liked the characters and especially loved the old English. But then I reached the last 10 chapters or so, and...PLOT TWIST. And then ANOTHER TWIST. And TWIST SOME MORE! Until finally I finished the book and was left with a feeling of awe, as well as something resembling how I feel after riding

This is a wonderful book! I read the Lamplighter edition first, then found the original unedited version later. It was like reading an entirely different book to read the full version...about a third of the book was taken out in the edited version. There were a few plot gaps in the edited version that aren't in the complete edition. I absolutely love this!

I can see why this was a bestseller! Lots of reversal of fortune, mistaken identity, deathbed repentance, and so on, very page-turning. If you hate pious books it will annoy you, but as someone who likes Charlotte Yonge et al, it's pretty low on the gratuitous churchiness scale. There is a lot of good nasty class-based family drama, and some romances, even a satisfying boat accident, and it's interesting to get an American version of the plots you find in popular Victorian fiction with the

I read this book a long time ago.. but I still remember that I considered it one of my favorite books! A great classic written many, many years ago. Please give this one a shot!

OK, OK, so I had to read this for my dissertation, so is it really fair to review it?? But honestly, I just wanted to warn anyone who, for some peculiar reason, decides they want to waste precious hours of their life reading this book...it is bad. Turgid. No wonder Nathaniel Hawthorne was so annoyed that this book outsold his own. Give me "The Scarlet Letter" any day. This book is 400 pages long. I skipped fifty at some stage, and it didn't make a whit of difference. The plot, if you can call it