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This is the foremost novel created by Homer Greene, whose core profession was a legal practitioner. It is the tale of Tom Taylor, 14 years old and his blind brother Bennie, 12 years old, who labor in the coal mines of Pennsylvania in the last years of 1800s, making earnings for younger boy’s eye surgery. A novel of wallops and collapses of coal mines in the way. Homer Greene was an American author, born in Ariel, Pennsylvania. he lived at Honesdale, Pennsylvania. He wrote The Blind Brother, a Story of the Pennsylvania Coal Mines; Burnham Breaker, Riverpark Rebellion, Pickett’s Gap; Handicapped, a Story of a White-haired Boy. Homer Greene was a lawyer, finished his studies at Union College and later resided in Hinesdale, Pennsylvania, from there he practiced his legal profession. He was a writer of a number of works of fiction and random verses. Homer graduated at Union College with a degree in A.B. and C.E., and with an LL.B. at Albany Law School. He was acknowledged to the Wayne County bar and took up legal practice. He became a District Attorney of the state for one period. His first fictional work was penned while a pupil at the Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, New York. The tale is called as The Mad Skater and was issued by Wayne Reid’s Magazine Onward. While he was taught at Union College, he wrote generously both in literature and poetry to college arts, and was an exclusive correspondent for the New York Evening Post, Albany Evening Journal, Troy Whig, and Albany Argus. What My Lover Said, his well known verse, was composed in his senior year and first released in the New York Evening Post, with his initials H.G. indicated on it. His other works include My Daughter Louise, Kitty, She Kissed the Dead, The Rivals, and all others.
Product ID: 9781776726561
Sku: S9-UQRN-EFVG
