Tommy Merton, the pampered son of a wealthy Jamaica planter, is rescued from a snake by Harry Sandford, a farmer’s son, and both boys are sent to learn from the clergyman Mr. Barlow. Through conversations, stories and experiments, Day teaches them self-reliance, kindness and natural history, setting Harry’s plain virtue against Tommy’s idleness and pride.
The most famous English children’s book of the late eighteenth century, shaped by Rousseau’s ideas of education. Download the free EPUB.