Marjorie Daw, Goliath
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Aldrich, Thomas Bailey) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Marjorie Daw, Goliath: And Other Stories The pleasant town of "Rivermouth" has become familiar to thousands who have never seen the old New Hampshire seaport where Thomas Bailey Aldrich was born, November 11, 1836. He first, with many vivid and loving touches, depicted its elm-shaded streets, spacious, old-fashioned dwellings, decaying warehouses, and crumbling wharves, haunted by a faint spicy odor,- the ghost of the dead West India trade, in The Story of a Bad Boy which we have the best authority for regarding as substantially autobiographical. In this delightful history is given as spirited and living a picture of its author´s boyhood as could be desired. Taken in infancy to Louisiana, where his father had business interests, he returned to his grandfather´s house in Portsmouth to pass his school days, and there, in 1852, when he was preparing to enter Harvard College, he received the news of his fathers death in New Orleans. This loss changed his purpose, and he accepted a position in the banking-house of an uncle in New York. But already the boy´s aspirations were literary rather than commercial, and his earliest verses, after the manner of their kind, had appeared in the Poets´ Corner of a local newspaper. Even during the three years he remained in his uncle´s office, he became known as a not infrequent contributor to journals and magazines, and in 1855 he definitely connected himself with the New York Evening Mirror. From 1856 to 1859 he was assistant editor of the Home Journal, then under the charge of Mr. N.P. Willis, who gave to the work of his youthful associate a kindly appreciation and encouragement that the latter always held in grateful remembrance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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