Eggleston, Edward. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. Lake Wales, Florida: Lost Classics Book Company, 1999. Third Printing. ISBN: 9780965273527. [12319]
Red hardback with title and illustration to front, 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 163 clean pp. Very good. Hardcover.
This wonderful book for the young has a slightly updated and newly-typeset text, with the charming illustrations of the 1895 edition retained. It contains 52 short biographical sketches of famous Americans, written in such a way as to engage and inspire the young reader.
Edward Eggleston, D.D. (1837 - 1902), b. Vevay, Indiana; d. Lake George, New York. A clergyman, novelist, and historian, Eggleston became a Methodist minister in 1856. As an itinerant circuit-rider his health failed, and he then devoted much of his life to journalism and literature. He was an editor of the juvenile paper, Little Corporal (1866-67), the National Sunday School Teacher (1867-73), and of the New York Independent. He also contributed stories to the Century and other magazines.
“Mr. Eggleston’s stories have held from the beginning a great popularity with a large circle of readers, and it has been in many ways well deserved.” - Allibone.
"The most popular of his books for adults was The Hoosier School-Master (1871), a vivid study of backwoods Indiana. His other novels include The End of the World (1872), The Mystery of Metropolisville (1873), The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age (1874), Roxy (1878), and The Graysons (1888)." - Britannica online.
