Author	Wallace, Archer, 1884-1958
Author of introduction, etc.	Langford, Frank Henry, 1882-1941
Title	Overcoming handicaps
Original Publication	New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1927.
Contents	The little cripple with the giant mind [Charles Steinmetz] -- The amazing story of Arthur Kavanagh -- The delicate boy who became England's greatest sculptor [John Flaxman] -- Brave Tusitala, the teller of stories [Robert Louis Stevenson] -- The composer who could not hear his own music [Ludwig van Beethoven] -- The thrilling story of an immigrant boy [Michael Pupin] -- A great artist and a great hero [Jean Lemoidant] -- From bookbinder's errand boy to great scientist [Michael Faraday] -- The newsboy who became a great inventor [Thomas Alva Edison] -- The unlettered boy who became a tree doctor [John Davey] -- The peasant boy who made his dreams come true [Ivan Mestrovic] -- The boy whose difficulties made him determined to succeed [Jacob Kindleberger] -- Kindergarten pupil at twenty-five: college professor at fifty [Aaron Drucker] -- A poor Negro boy who thrilled a king [Harry Burleigh] -- A Quaker boy who astonished the world [Benjamin West].
Credits	Carol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language	English
LoC Class	CT: History: Biography
Subject	Biography -- Juvenile literature
Category	Text
eBook-No.	77199
Release Date	Nov 9, 2025
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
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