Why the Chimes Rang - Hardcover

Alden, Raymond MacDonald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0899665950 ISBN 13: 9780899665955

Publisher: Buccaneer Books, 1989

Synopsis

A poor boy named Peter and his brother make their way to the church with the bells that never play to celebrate Christmas, but on the way, Peter stops to help an old woman and his brother must continue alone to the church.

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About the Author

Raymond Macdonald Alden (1873 – 1924) was an American scholar and educator, born in New Hartford, N. Y. He studied at Rollins College, Fla., and at the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1894. He took post-graduate studies there at Penn and at Harvard. In 1894-95 he was instructor in English at Columbian (now George Washington) University; in 1896-97 assistant in English at Harvard; and in 1898-99 senior fellow in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He was chosen to fill the position of assistant professor of English literature and rhetoric at Leland Stanford, Jr., University in 1899, then became associate professor there in 1909. He accepted the chair of English at the University of Illinois in 1911. He edited several plays of Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists and in 1910 an edition of Thoreau's Walden. Alden also became known as a contributor to educational journals and short stories to magazines. In 1913 he edited an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets and A Lover's Complaint.

Edition details

• Publisher: Buccaneer Books
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0899665950
• ISBN 13: 9780899665955
• Binding: Hardcover