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A BOY’S TOWN ADVENTURES – Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, a Boy’s Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated): Children’s Book Classics
This carefully crafted ebook: "A BOY'S TOWN ADVENTURES - Complete Series: The Flight of Pony Baker, Boy Life, A Boy's Town & Years of My Youth (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. In this series, William Dean Howells delightfully describes the early years of his life, in the "Boy's Town" of Ohio, the state where he was born and raised. These stories remain as a vivid autobiographical records and colorful images of a life in the mid-nineteenth century American town. Extract: "If there was any fellow in the Boy's Town fifty years ago who had a good reason to run off it was Pony Baker. Pony was not his real name; it was what the boys called him, because there were so many fellows who had to be told apart, as Big Joe and Little Joe, and Big John and Little John, and Big Bill and Little Bill, that they got tired of telling boys apart that way; and after one of the boys called him Pony Baker, so that you could know him from his cousin Frank Baker, nobody ever called him anything else." William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of the Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria. Howells is known to be the father of American realism, and a denouncer of the sentimental novel. He was the first American author to bring a realist aesthetic to the literature of the United States. His stories of Boston upper crust life set in the 1850s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction.
Boy Scouts in Mexico, or on Guard With Uncle Sam
G. Harvey Ralphson's classic series of Boy Scout adventure novels, written just as organized scouting took hold in the U.S., on the eve of World War I, brought a patriotic flare to stories that took boys to far-off exotic locales and into situations that sometimes verged on science fiction. In "Boy Scouts in Mexico, or On Guard with Uncle Sam" the scouts find themselves mixed up in robbery, attempted murder, Mexican revolutionaries, and a lost gold mine, as they try to prove the innocence of one of their members. An exciting story from start to finish, "Boy Scouts in Mexico" will interest fans of classic pulp fiction and Boy Scout stories alike!
The Cadets of Flemming Hall (Illustrated Edition)
Anna Chapin Ray (1865-1945) was an American author born in Westfield, Massachusetts, who in 1881 was one of the first three women to take the Yale University entrance exam. She studied at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. where she received a BA in 1885 and an MA in modern European history in 1888. Her writing career began the following year and she went on to become a prolific author, primarily of children's books although she did also write some adult novels. Many of her works were written under the pseudonym Sidney Howard. It became her practice to write during the summer in New Haven, Connecticut and then spend the winter months in Quebec. This story for boys set at a cadet school was first published in 1892. With three illustrations.
