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Title: Overcoming handicaps
Original Publication: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1927.
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].
Credits: Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Author: Wallace, Archer, 1884-1958
Author of introduction, etc.: Langford, Frank Henry, 1882-1941
EBook No.: 77199
Published: Nov 9, 2025
Downloads: 802
Language: English
Subject: Biography -- Juvenile literature
LoCC: History: Biography
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Overcoming handicaps
Original Publication: New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1927.
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].
Credits: Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Author: Wallace, Archer, 1884-1958
Author of introduction, etc.: Langford, Frank Henry, 1882-1941
EBook No.: 77199
Published: Nov 9, 2025
Downloads: 802
Language: English
Subject: Biography -- Juvenile literature
LoCC: History: Biography
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.