Biographical Stories for Children

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Six true stories about the childhoods of Benjamin West, Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin and Queen Christina. A father tells them to his son during a long illness.

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