eBook - ePub
Always the Young Strangers
The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth
- 456 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Always the Young Strangers
The Poet Historians Moving Recollection of His Small Town Youth
About this book
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and historian recalls his midwestern boyhood in this classic memoir.
Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.
In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.
Born in a tiny cottage in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1878, Carl Sandburg grew with America. As a boy he left school at the age of thirteen to embark on a life of work—driving a milk wagon and serving as a hotel porter, a bricklayer, and a farm laborer before eventually finding his place in the world of literature.
In Always the Young Strangers, Sandburg delivers a nostalgic view of small-town life around the turn of the twentieth century and an invaluable perspective on American history.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Man-Child
- The House on Berrien Street
- Judgment Day
- Father and Mother
- The Sleeping Mortgage
- School Days
- Along Berrien Street
- Kid Talk—Folk Talk
- The Dirty Dozen
- First Paydays
- Learning a Trade
- Cigarette Biographies
- The Auditorium
- Prairie Town
- “College City”
- “Where Shall We Go?”
- Theme in Shadow and Gold
- Pioneers and Old-Timers
- Hobo
- Soldier
- Prairie Sunsets
- Index
- About the Author