From their initial publication in 1887 until fading from the popular consciousness in the 1930s, Rowland Robinson's enormously popular stories were a staple of Vermont households and classrooms. His tales were treasured as honest and accurate portraits of the life, times, and speech of pre-Civil War Vermont. This Hardscrabble edition of Danvis Tales presents the best of the original six volumes and reestablishes Robinson (1833-1900) as a serious and thoughtful, funny and loving chronicler of people's lives and the natural world.