Frank Merriwell's First Job, Or, At the Foot of the Ladder

by Burt Standish

Overview

Frank Merriwell's First Job is a dime novel written for young readers by Burt L. Standish. Three times Frank walked up and down the room. He paused and looked around. It was a pleasant, well-furnished room. There were handsome pictures on the walls, there were foils, boxing gloves, tennis rackets and so forth. There also were strange curios from many lands, all gathered by Frank himself. This room was like home to Frank. He loved it for its associations. Some day he must leave it, but what10 pleasant memories of his college days he would carry away.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160736501
Publisher:	Peter Kattan
Publication date:	12/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	349 KB

About the Author

Gilbert Patten was born in Corinna, Maine in 1866. His father, a carpenter, and his mother were deeply religious pacifists. They were Seventh Day Adventists. He entered Corinna Union Academy at fourteen, but when his father threatened that he would be put to work if he did not improve at school, Patten ran away to Biddeford, Maine where he worked in a machine shop. When he returned home and told his father that he would become an author, he was given thirty days to prove himself. He sold his first two stories in this period to the dime novel company of Erastus Flavel Beadle, and combined his resumed studies for the next four years with writing and publishing stories. When he was twenty, he married Alice Gardner, and in 1892 their son Harvan Barr Patten was born. They later divorced and Gilbert Patten would marry twice more.