Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Story of a Bad Boy
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Story of a Bad Boy (Children's Book)
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This eBook edition has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Tom Bailey is born in the fictitious town of Rivermouth, New Hampshire, but moves to New Orleans with his family when he is still a baby. In his boyhood, his father wants him to be educated in the North and sent him back to school in Rivermouth to live with his grandfather, Captain Nutter. Tom becomes a member of a boys' club called the Centipedes and the boys become involved in a series of adventures. In one prank, the boys steal an old carriage and push it into a bonfire for the Fourth of July. During the winter, several boys build a snow fort on Slatter's Hill, inciting rival boys into a battle of snowballs. Later, Tom and three other boys combine their money to buy a boat named Dolphin and sneak away to an island. Tom also befriends a man nicknamed Sailor Ben. Revealed as the long-lost husband of Captain Nutter's Irish servant, Ben settles in Rivermouth in a boat-like cabin. Sailor Ben helps the boys fire off a series of old cannon at the pier, much to the confusion of the local townspeople. When his father's banking job fails, Tom is invited by an uncle to work in a counting-house in New York. "The Story of a Bad Boy" is an autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature, though the text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy".
The Story of A Bad Boy
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: 1st World Publishing
ISBN: 1421802996
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make. I call my story the story of a bad boy, partly to distinguish myself from those faultless young gentlemen who generally figure in narratives of this kind, and partly because I really was not a cherub. I may truthfully say I was an amiable, impulsive lad, blessed with fine digestive powers, and no hypocrite. I didn't want to be an angel and with the angels stand; I didn't think the missionary tracts presented to me by the Rev. Wibird Hawkins were half so nice as Robinson Crusoe; and I didn't send my little pocket-money to the natives of the Feejee Islands, but spent it royally in peppermint-drops and taffy candy. In short, I was a real human boy, such as you may meet anywhere in New England, and no more like the impossible boy in a storybook than a sound orange is like one that has been sucked dry. But let us begin at the beginning.
The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404003777
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The story of a bad boy ; The little violinist, and other sketches
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Story of a Bad Boy
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: The story of a bad boy, The little violinist, and other sketches
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Works Of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: . The Story Of A Bad Boy
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781011146918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
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The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich