| Author |
Wallace, Archer, 1884-1958 |
| Author of introduction, etc. |
Langford, Frank Henry, 1882-1941 |
| Title |
Overcoming handicaps
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| Original Publication |
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1927.
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| Contents |
The little cripple with the giant mind [Charles Steinmetz] -- The amazing story of Arthur Kavanagh -- The delicate boy who became England's greatest sculptor [John Flaxman] -- Brave Tusitala, the teller of stories [Robert Louis Stevenson] -- The composer who could not hear his own music [Ludwig van Beethoven] -- The thrilling story of an immigrant boy [Michael Pupin] -- A great artist and a great hero [Jean Lemoidant] -- From bookbinder's errand boy to great scientist [Michael Faraday] -- The newsboy who became a great inventor [Thomas Alva Edison] -- The unlettered boy who became a tree doctor [John Davey] -- The peasant boy who made his dreams come true [Ivan Mestrovic] -- The boy whose difficulties made him determined to succeed [Jacob Kindleberger] -- Kindergarten pupil at twenty-five: college professor at fifty [Aaron Drucker] -- A poor Negro boy who thrilled a king [Harry Burleigh] -- A Quaker boy who astonished the world [Benjamin West].
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| 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)
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| Language |
English |
| LoC Class |
CT: History: Biography
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| Subject |
Biography -- Juvenile literature
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| Category |
Text |
| EBook-No. |
77199 |
| Release Date |
Nov 9, 2025 |
| Copyright Status |
Public domain in the USA. |
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