The Van Dwellers: A Strenuous Quest for a Home - Brossura

Bigelow Paine, Albert

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ISBN 10: 1484999843 ISBN 13: 9781484999844

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Riassunto

"Too true to life to be classed with fiction."--Detroit Free Press

"Told in a delicious vein of humor."--Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette.

We now called ourselves "van-dwellers," the term applied by landlord and agent to those who move systematically and inhabit the moving-man's great trundling house no less than four to six times a year. I am not sure, however, that we ever really earned the title. The true "van-dweller" makes money by moving and getting free rent, while I fear the wear and tear on our chattels more than offset any advantage we ever acquired in this particular direction.

(cover image courtesy of Patrick Hajzler)

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L'autore:

Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. He wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. Other works by him: The Boy's Life of Mark Twain (1916), Mark Twain: A Biography, 3 volumes (1917), Mark Twain's Letters, 2 volumes (1917), A Short Life of Mark Twain (1920), Mark Twain's Speeches (1923), and Life and Lillian Gish (1932).

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• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1484999843
• ISBN 13: 9781484999844
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 102