Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates
1865
Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 story of Holland: Hans and Gretel Brinker, their father's lost memory, the great skating race for the silver skates, and a tour of Dutch towns, canals, and customs woven through the family's fortunes.
- Preface
- A Letter from Holland
- Hans and Gretel
- Holland
- The Silver Skates
- Hans and Gretel Find a Friend
- Shadows in the Home
- Sunbeams
- Hans Has His Way
- Introducing Jacob Poot and His Cousin
- The Festival of Saint Nicholas
- What the Boys Saw and Did in Amsterdam
- Big Manias and Little Oddities
- On the Way to Haarlem
- A Catastrophe
- Hans
- Homes
- Haarlem—The Boys Hear Voices
- The Man With Four Heads
- Friends in Need
- On the Canal
- Jacob Poot Changes the Plan
- Mynheer Kleef and His Bill of Fare
- The Red Lion Becomes Dangerous
- Before the Court
- The Beleaguered Cities
- Leyden
- The Palace in the Wood
- The Merchant Prince and the Sister-Princess
- Through the Hague
- A Day of Rest
- Homeward Bound
- Boys and Girls
- The Crisis
- Gretel and Hilda
- The Awakening
- Bones and Tongues
- A New Alarm
- The Father’s Return
- The Thousand Guilders
- Glimpses
- Looking For Work
- The Mysterious Watch
- A Discovery
- The Race
- Joy in the Cottage
- Mysterious Disappearance of Thomas Higgs
- Broad Sunshine
- Conclusion