“Collected Works of Oliver Optic” contains:
•An aesthetic cover page
•A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles
•Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters
•Nicely organized chapters and text
Author’s works in this collection include:
•ACROSS INDIA
•ALL ABOARD
•THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
•BREAKING AWAY
•THE COMING WAVE
•DOWN THE RHINE
•DOWN THE RIVER
•FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT
•FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
•NOW OR NEVER
•ON THE BLOCKADE
•OUTWARD BOUND
•POOR AND PROUD
•THE SOLDIER BOY
•STAND BY THE UNION
•TAKEN BY THE ENEMY
•WORK AND WIN
•THE YACHT CLUB
Wikipedia on Oliver Optic:
William Taylor Adams (1822 – 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Adams became a teacher in the Lower Road School in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1843, he resigned from his position as master of the school in 1846 in order to assist his father and brother in the management of their new hotel in Boston, their Adams House hotel. Adams decided that he preferred teaching so in 1848 he returned to teaching this time at the Boylston School in Boston, in 1860 Adams was promoted to the position of master of the Boylston School. When the Bowditch School was founded Adams transferred to that school as its master, a position he held until he resigned from teaching in 1865. This experience naturally brought him closely into contact with boys, and he learned much of what interested them, which had a good deal to do with his eventual success as an author. Extensive travel abroad and a deep knowledge of boats, farming, and practical mechanics were other factors that gave his works reality.
•An aesthetic cover page
•A beginning click-able Table of Contents for all titles
•Inner click-able Tables of Contents for all individual books with multiple chapters
•Nicely organized chapters and text
Author’s works in this collection include:
•ACROSS INDIA
•ALL ABOARD
•THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
•BREAKING AWAY
•THE COMING WAVE
•DOWN THE RHINE
•DOWN THE RIVER
•FIGHTING FOR THE RIGHT
•FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS
•NOW OR NEVER
•ON THE BLOCKADE
•OUTWARD BOUND
•POOR AND PROUD
•THE SOLDIER BOY
•STAND BY THE UNION
•TAKEN BY THE ENEMY
•WORK AND WIN
•THE YACHT CLUB
Wikipedia on Oliver Optic:
William Taylor Adams (1822 – 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Adams became a teacher in the Lower Road School in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1843, he resigned from his position as master of the school in 1846 in order to assist his father and brother in the management of their new hotel in Boston, their Adams House hotel. Adams decided that he preferred teaching so in 1848 he returned to teaching this time at the Boylston School in Boston, in 1860 Adams was promoted to the position of master of the Boylston School. When the Bowditch School was founded Adams transferred to that school as its master, a position he held until he resigned from teaching in 1865. This experience naturally brought him closely into contact with boys, and he learned much of what interested them, which had a good deal to do with his eventual success as an author. Extensive travel abroad and a deep knowledge of boats, farming, and practical mechanics were other factors that gave his works reality.
