Project Gutenberg 2006-02-27 Public domain in the USA. 198 Irvine, Alexander 1863 1941 Irvine, Alexander Fitzgerald 10005852 From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) "From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine" by Alexander Irvine is a memoir written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles the author's life, beginning with his impoverished childhood in Ireland through his diverse and often turbulent experiences as a laborer, soldier, and eventual evangelist. It explores themes of poverty, struggle, and the quest for education and meaning in life. At the start of the memoir, Irvine reflects on his challenging early years in Ireland, where he experienced hunger and hardship within a large, struggling family led by a shoemaker father. He shares vivid memories of his childhood, including his early work as a newsboy, his family's poverty, and the formative encounters that shaped his beliefs. The beginning of the book illustrates Irvine's resilience in the face of adversity and sets the stage for his journey of self-discovery and transformation, highlighting the social conditions of the time and the stark realities of life for the underprivileged in late 19th-century Ireland. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 79.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Socialism Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 HX Text Category: Biographies 479433 2025-08-07T13:23:53.734618 text/html 475363 2006-02-27T18:00:29 text/html 2066084 2025-08-07T13:24:05.617518 application/epub+zip 2064245 2025-08-07T13:23:57.950593 application/epub+zip 260228 2025-08-07T13:23:56.241656 application/epub+zip 2308100 2025-08-07T13:24:10.862541 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2268320 2025-08-07T13:24:03.786557 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 393434 2022-09-08T13:32:09.155356 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 419496 2025-08-07T13:23:52.670608 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 419075 2020-12-13T17:57:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 419093 2020-12-13T17:57:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19731 2025-08-07T13:24:11.015485 application/rdf+xml 19172 2025-08-07T13:23:56.767551 image/jpeg 4401 2025-08-07T13:23:56.508593 image/jpeg 163609 2020-12-13T17:57:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 1997590 2020-12-13T17:57:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 163578 2020-12-13T17:57:52 application/octet-stream application/zip 2082393 2025-08-07T13:23:53.848579 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog