Almost A Man.
Mary Wood-Allen, M. D.
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Description
Mary Wood-Allen, a doctor, wrote this 1895 book, Almost a Man, published by her own Wood-Allen company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The book opens with a prelude in which two lads, having crossed the sunny meadow land of childhood, stand at the gate to youth's rougher paths. An angel brings each a gift, not for himself but for others, and bids them listen.
One lad hears only entrancing music for himself, while the other hears, deeper than pleasure, a holier strain. The chapters that follow, A Gateway and a Gift and The White Cross, draw the moral out. Wood-Allen writes for boys on the edge of manhood, in the earnest, improving style of her Teaching Truth. Readers get a short moral allegory about selfish pleasure and service to others.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mary Wood-Allen, M. D. |
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| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 92 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |