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Overcoming handicaps

Overcoming handicaps

by Archer Wallace

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About this eBook

Author
Wallace, Archer, 1884-1958
Original Publication
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1927.
Credits
Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
CT: History: Biography
Subject
Biography -- Juvenile literature
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 77199
Release Date
November 9, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.OVERCOMING HANDICAPS
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.CONTENTS
  7. 7.OVERCOMING HANDICAPS
  8. 8.OVERCOMING HANDICAPS — CHAPTER I The Little Cripple with the Giant Mind
  9. 9.CHAPTER II The Amazing Story of Arthur Kavanagh
  10. 10.CHAPTER III The Delicate Boy Who Became England’s Greatest Sculptor
  11. 11.CHAPTER IV Brave Tusitala, the Teller of Stories
  12. 12.CHAPTER V The Composer Who Could Not Hear His Own Music
  13. 13.CHAPTER VI The Thrilling Story of an Immigrant Boy
  14. 14.CHAPTER VII A Great Artist and a Great Hero
  15. 15.CHAPTER VIII From Bookbinder’s Errand Boy to Great Scientist
  16. 16.CHAPTER IX The Newsboy Who Became a Great Inventor
  17. 17.CHAPTER X The Unlettered Boy Who Became a Tree Doctor
  18. 18.CHAPTER XI The Peasant Boy Who Made His Dreams Come True
  19. 19.CHAPTER XII The Boy Whose Difficulties Made Him Determined to Succeed
  20. 20.CHAPTER XIII Kindergarten Pupil at Twenty-five: College Professor at Fifty
  21. 21.CHAPTER XIV A Poor Negro Boy Who Thrilled a King
  22. 22.CHAPTER XV A Quaker Boy Who Astonished the World — Transcriber’s Note

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