A story, my child? Well, there’s none that I knowAs good as the story about little Joe.He lived with his mother, just under the eavesOf a tenement high, where the telegraph weavesIts highway of wire, that everywhere goes,And makes the night musical when the wind blows.Their home had no father–the two were bereftOf all but […]

In “A Man For the Ages” Irving Bacheller tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s life and career in the form of a novel. He represents that the book is written by the grandson of one Samson Traylor, who is presented as a friend of Lincoln’s. The story that follows is an abbreviation of the account […]