Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6)
by Asa Don Dickinson
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Dickinson, Asa Don, 1876-1960
- Title
- Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Success
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 18598
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18598
- Release Date
- June 15, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.[Frontispiece: Robert Burns] — STORIES OF ACHIEVEMENT — EDITED BY ASA DON DICKINSON
- 2.Authors and Journalists — GARDEN CITY —— NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1925 — ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- 3.CONTENTS — AUTHORS AND JOURNALISTS — JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU The Man to Whom Expression was Travail — ROBERT BURNS The Ploughman-poet — HORACE GREELEY How the Farm-boy Became an Editor — CHARLES DICKENS The Factory Boy — CHARLOTTE BRONTE The Country Parson's Daughter — LOUISA MAY ALCOTT The Journal of a Brave and Talented Girl — HENRY GEORGE The Troubles of a Job Printer — JACOB RIIS "The Making of an American" — WILLIAM H. RIDEING Rejected Manuscripts — HELEN ADAMS KELLER How She Learned to Speak — JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU — (1712-1778) — THE MAN TO WHOM EXPRESSION WAS TRAVAIL — ROBERT BURNS — (1759-1796) — THE PLOUGHMAN-POET — POETS ARE BORN—THEN MADE — THE KINDLY CRITIC IS THE POET'S BEST FRIEND — HORACE GREELEY — (1811-1872) — HOW THE FARM-BOY BECAME AN EDITOR — CHARLES DICKENS — (1812-1870) — THE FACTORY BOY — A LITTLE GENTLEMAN — A FRIEND IN NEED — DELIVERANCE AT LAST — "THE INFINITE CAPACITY FOR TAKING PAINS" — "FAREWELL? MY BLESSING SEASON THIS IN THEE" — CHARLOTTE BRONTË — (1816-1855) — THE COUNTRY PARSON'S DAUGHTER — LOUISA MAY ALCOTT — (1832-1888) — HENRY GEORGE — (1839-1897) — THE TROUBLES OF A JOB PRINTER — BEGINS WRITING AND TALKING — "ON THE PROFITABLE EMPLOYMENT OF TIME." — JACOB RIIS. — (1849-1914) — "THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN" — WILLIAM H. RIDEING — (1853-____) — REJECTED MANUSCRIPTS — HELEN ADAMS KELLER — (1880-____) — HOW SHE LEARNED TO SPEAK
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