Frank Merriwell's Problem, Or, The Vanishing of Elsie
Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Adventure stories, American
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 221 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Adventure stories, American
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 44,63 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Ryan K. Anderson
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1557286825
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and Smith, initially had only a general idea about what would constitute Merriwell’s adventures and who would want to read about them when they introduced the hero in the dime novel Tip Top Weekly in 1896, but over the years what took shape was a story line that capitalized on middle-class fears about the insidious influence of modern life on the nation’s boys. Merriwell came to symbolize the Progressive Era debate about how sport and school made boys into men. The saga featured the attractive Merriwell distinguishing between “good” and “bad” girls and focused on his squeaky-clean adventures in physical development and mentorship. By the serial’s conclusion, Merriwell had opened a school for “weak and wayward boys” that made him into a figure who taught readers how to approximate his example. In Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood, Anderson treats Tip Top Weekly as a historical artifact, supplementing his reading of its text, illustrations, reader letters, and advertisements with his use of editorial correspondence, memoirs, trade journals, and legal documents. Anderson blends social and cultural history, with the history of business, gender, and sport, along with a general examination of childhood and youth in this fascinating study of how a fictional character was used to promote a homogeneous “normal” American boyhood rooted in an assumed pecking order of class, race, and gender.
Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,79 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Adventure stories
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Dime novels
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Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Standish Burt L
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2016-06-23
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ISBN : 9781318850945
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Burt L. Standish
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Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,95 MB
Release : 1922
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