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Struggling Upward

Struggling Upward

Alger Jr. Horatio / Alger JrHoratio / Horatio Jr. Alger / Horatio JrAlger / Jr. Horatio Alger Jr. Horatio / JrHoratio Alger JrHoratio

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Editorial:
1st World Library - Literary Society
Año de edición:
2006
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Antologías (no poéticas)
ISBN:
9781421818603
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Sobre IBD

One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall, pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A. B., a recent graduate of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importance on foot. What it was may be learned from the words of the teacher.

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