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My tenth birthday was celebrated in northern England, almost within hailing distance of the Irish Sea. Chaddy Ashworth, the green-grocer¿s son, helped me eat the birthday cake, with the ten burnt currants on its buttered top. As old Bill Scroggs was wont to boast: ¿Hadield was in the right proper place, it being in the best shire in the Kingdom. Darby-shir (Derbyshire) is where Mr. George Eliot (only he said ¿Helliot¿) got his ¿Adam Bede¿ frum...

Excerpt from Man or Machine Which?: Or an Interpretation of Ideals at Work in IndustryDowned by our idealism. But What quality or fibre has our optimism When faced towards our mills and our industrial machines? We have more machines than guns, more laboring men than soldiers. We know that every calendar day our mill sites are turned over to strifes as bitter as war into battle-grounds Whereon deadly hates between man and man are as deep-nouris...

Excerpt from Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an EducationThese forty chapters of absolutely real autobiography are intended to give the reader faith in American education and to reconstruct the human struggles and tests of character which attend the progress of the poor but ambitious lads through a formal education for life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic book...

¿Work has many faces, sometimes a heavy touch and sometimes a light touch. This work was being performed by little boys, nimble but shockingly young to the modern mind. The Life of a Mill Boy was written by a mill boy himself. Lucky enough to be literate, to retain some semblance of good health and the clear eyed memory to bring his world to life. The life of poor Al Priddy will grip you and then break your heart. He loses his parents, he cr...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Through the School: The Experiences of a Mill Boy in Securing an Education These forty chapters of absolutely real autobiography are intended to give the reader faith in American education and to reconstruct the human struggles and tests of character which attend the progress of the poor but ambitious lads through a formal education for life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classi...

¿Work has many faces, sometimes a heavy touch and sometimes a light touch. This work was being performed by little boys, nimble but shockingly young to the modern mind. The Life of a Mill Boy was written by a mill boy himself. Lucky enough to be literate, to retain some semblance of good health and the clear eyed memory to bring his world to life. The life of poor Al Priddy will grip you and then break your heart. He loses his parents, he cr...

Excerpt from Man or Machine Which?: Or an Interpretation of Ideals at Work in IndustryDowned by our idealism. But What quality or fibre has our optimism When faced towards our mills and our industrial machines? We have more machines than guns, more laboring men than soldiers. We know that every calendar day our mill sites are turned over to strifes as bitter as war into battle-grounds Whereon deadly hates between man and man are as deep-nouris...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.