Struggling Upward (Esprios Classics)

Struggling Upward (Esprios Classics)
Author: Horatio Alger
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2022-05-23
Genre:
ISBN:

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was an American writer. He wrote magazine stories and poems, a few novels for adults, and 100 plus boys' books. His boys' books were hugely popular. Alger was born in Massachusetts, and attended Harvard College. He became a Unitarian minister, but his career as a clergyman was brief. It ended when his congregation charged him with child molestation. Criminal charges were not placed against him, but his career in the church was finished. He moved to New York City to become a professional writer. In 1868, Alger found his place in the literary world with his fourth boys' book, Ragged Dick.

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines (Esprios Classics)

A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines (Esprios Classics)
Author: Clayton Edwards
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387685023

A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES- A RECORD OF HIGH ENDEAVOUR AND STRANGE ADVENTURE FROM 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. ILLUSTRATED BYFLORENCE CHOATE AND ELIZABETH CURTIS

The Coming of the Law (Esprios Classics)

The Coming of the Law (Esprios Classics)
Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1794746579

Charles Alden Seltzer (August 15, 1875 - February 9, 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy. Seltzer was born in Janesville, Wisconsin. Before becoming a successful writer, he was variously a newsboy, telegraph messenger, painter, carpenter and manager of the circulation of a newspaper, building inspector, editor of a small newspaper, and an appraiser.

The Fate of Felix Brand (Esprios Classics)

The Fate of Felix Brand (Esprios Classics)
Author: Florence Finch Kelly
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2019-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1794750533

Florence Finch Kelly (March 27, 1858 - December 17, 1939) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and author of novels and short stories. her father was a farmer in Illinois and Kansas, where the family moved by covered wagon. Charles Sumner Finch, one of her brothers, became a newspaper publisher in Kansas. She married in Boston the newspaper publisher Allen P. Kelly on 9 December 1884; they had a son, Morton, who died in childhood and another son, Sherwin Kelly, who became a noted geophysicist.