The Story of a Bad Boy
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1951).
Price: $30.00
Hardcover. Reprint. Ownership signature on the front fly, edges of the boards very lightly worn, else near fine in very good, lightly soiled dustjacket with a few small chips and tears and some creasing to the edges of the panels. Illustrated by Harold M. Brett.
Item #66311
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
birth name: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
born: 11/11/1836
died: 3/19/1907
Biography
Poet, short-story writer, and editor whose use of the surprise ending influenced the development of the short story in America. He drew upon his childhood experiences in New Hampshire in his popular classic The Story of a Bad Boy (1870). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore