Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family

by Cornelius Mathews

Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. This book is printed in black & white, Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Reprinted in 2022 with the help of original edition published long back 1856. As this book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages. If it is multi vo Resized as per current standards. We expect that you will understand our compulsion with such books. 148 Chanticleer : a Thanksgiving story of the Peabody family / by Cornelius Mathews ; with illustrations by Darley. 1856 Cornelius Mathews

79 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 12, 2012

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Offensive on just about every level imaginable from a modern perspective. It's not written well enough for its redeeming qualities to give it 'classic' status and cover over the horrific racism in this book. (I've never seen the word 'darkie' used so often and so shamefully, including in Uncle Tom's Cabin, which at least has the benefit of being written to a purpose and written well). It also included some black-on-black racism that made me even sadder.

Additionally, the plot was so thin and full of holes it made my head hurt.

Roughly, a family of really annoying racist @sshats convene to celebrate a sad Thanksgiving. One of the sons of the family has disappeared after supposedly murdering his friend, a preacher(!!??), with whom he has no quarrel, no motive and no evidence of the 'crime' was ever found.

He leaves his family, his putative fiance, his mother, his clothing, his property in short, -everything- and just disappears without a trace. Of course this means he's guilty of murder (even though everyone knows everyone's business and no body or evidence a crime was committed was ever found).

The whole plot annoyed the bejeebers out of me.

Little kid of the family declares that big brother is innocent, long and loudly. His reasoning? Because the rooster didn't crow from the time big brother disappeared until the family were sitting on the porch discussing the scoundrel... then the rooster crowed.

I don't understand either, unless it was a weird nod to the biblical Peter denying Jesus three times before the cock crowed.

Can't recommend this to anyone. I finished it and would rather have submitted to a root canal, hold the novocaine. At least it was free (kindle version).

[Susan Molloy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a delightfully-written Thanksgiving was story written in the Antebellum Era. The dialogue between the well-developed characters is true to life and fun to read. 🦃 Recommended.

[LittleDeadRedGoddessPersephone]

I could not even give this a star. I decided to pick up some Thanksgiving reading and ended up being so disgusted by this book. I know it was written a very long time ago but the racism in this book was so horrid I could not even finish it. I ended up closing it with just a chapter or so left.