Description:Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full heavily gilt-embossed blue and gray cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 355, with 4-page list of Oliver Optic's books subsequent to text. Frontis illustration of "Mulgrin and the Engineer" by Bridgeman [sp.?]. William Taylor Adams was one time Master of Boston's Boyleston School and Congressional Representative for Boston. Adams wrote well over 100 books in total, most of them for a boy audience, and the majority of these in series of four to six volumes. He never wrote under his own name. Though "Oliver Optic" was the pseudonym he used most, his work also appeared under the bylines "Irving Brown," "Clingham Hunter, M.D.," and "Old Stager." Like many children's authors of his day, he was additionally an editor, and many of his works first appeared in Oliver Optic's Magazine. Adams' writing was criticized by Louisa May Alcott, among others. Alcott used her story Eight Cousins to deplore Adams' use of slang, his cast of bootblacks and newsboys, and his stories of police courts and saloons. Adams responded in kind, pointing out Alcott's own use of slang and improbable plot twists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On The Blockade, -Third inThe Blue and The Gray Afloat Series. To get started finding On The Blockade, -Third inThe Blue and The Gray Afloat Series, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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On The Blockade, -Third inThe Blue and The Gray Afloat Series
Description: Octavo, [20cm/8inches], full heavily gilt-embossed blue and gray cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 355, with 4-page list of Oliver Optic's books subsequent to text. Frontis illustration of "Mulgrin and the Engineer" by Bridgeman [sp.?]. William Taylor Adams was one time Master of Boston's Boyleston School and Congressional Representative for Boston. Adams wrote well over 100 books in total, most of them for a boy audience, and the majority of these in series of four to six volumes. He never wrote under his own name. Though "Oliver Optic" was the pseudonym he used most, his work also appeared under the bylines "Irving Brown," "Clingham Hunter, M.D.," and "Old Stager." Like many children's authors of his day, he was additionally an editor, and many of his works first appeared in Oliver Optic's Magazine. Adams' writing was criticized by Louisa May Alcott, among others. Alcott used her story Eight Cousins to deplore Adams' use of slang, his cast of bootblacks and newsboys, and his stories of police courts and saloons. Adams responded in kind, pointing out Alcott's own use of slang and improbable plot twists.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with On The Blockade, -Third inThe Blue and The Gray Afloat Series. To get started finding On The Blockade, -Third inThe Blue and The Gray Afloat Series, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.