Project Gutenberg 2024-09-17 Public domain in the USA. 177 Craddock, Charles Egbert 1850 1922 Dembry, R. Emmett Murfree, Mary Noailles Stephens, Alice Barber 1858 1932 Barber, Alice The champion $aBoston :$bHoughton, Mifflin and Company, $c1902. Peter Becker, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Champion" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story introduces readers to a young printer's devil named Edward Macdonald, who aspires to become a champion compositor in the bustling environment of a newspaper office. Through his misadventures, the novel explores themes of ambition, innocence, and the challenges of growing up in a city filled with both opportunities and temptations. The opening portion of the book sets the stage in a lively printing house, where Edward interacts with a friend, Peter Bateman, while navigating the chaos of the busy newsroom. Eager to escape his mundane job to witness the excitement of the theatre, Edward is persuaded by Pete to sneak into Gorham's Theatre through a back window. As he embarks on this adventure, the narrative hints at his internal conflict over his actions and the moral implications of his desire for fun and excitement. The tone shifts as the boys become embroiled in unforeseen danger and drama, foreshadowing the turbulent experiences that will shape Edward’s journey. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/champion00cradiala 20201128094757craddock 1902 us Reading ease score: 68.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en City and town life -- Fiction Boys -- Fiction Newspaper employees -- Fiction PS Text Category: Novels Category: American Literature 289738 2025-07-29T11:18:29.966419 text/html 264931 2024-09-17T18:34:06 text/html 541505 2025-07-29T11:18:35.576439 application/epub+zip 544436 2025-07-29T11:18:31.912460 application/epub+zip 238271 2025-07-29T11:18:30.763426 application/epub+zip 1019471 2025-07-29T11:18:38.358413 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1008059 2025-07-29T11:18:34.924410 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 276066 2025-07-29T11:18:29.522432 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 256157 2024-09-17T18:34:06 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16971 2025-07-29T11:18:38.531383 application/rdf+xml 19024 2025-07-29T11:18:31.306409 image/jpeg 3055 2025-07-29T11:18:31.015423 image/jpeg 3951313 2025-07-29T11:18:30.027446 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 en.wikipedia en.wikipedia