From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Alexander Irvine
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"From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine" by Alexander Irvine is a memoir written in the early 20th century. The book chronicles the author's life, beginning with his impoverished childhood in Ireland through his diverse and often turbulent experiences as a laborer, soldier, and eventual evangelist. It explores themes of poverty, struggle, and the quest for education and meaning in life. At the start of the memoir, Irvine reflects
on his challenging early years in Ireland, where he experienced hunger and hardship within a large, struggling family led by a shoemaker father. He shares vivid memories of his childhood, including his early work as a newsboy, his family's poverty, and the formative encounters that shaped his beliefs. The beginning of the book illustrates Irvine's resilience in the face of adversity and sets the stage for his journey of self-discovery and transformation, highlighting the social conditions of the time and the stark realities of life for the underprivileged in late 19th-century Ireland. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 10005852 |
| Title | From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine |
| Credits | E-text prepared by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Jeannie Howse, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 79.2 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | HX: Social sciences: Socialism, Communism, Anarchism |
| Subject | Socialism |
| Subject | Irvine, Alexander, 1863-1941 |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17881 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-17881-3 |
| Release Date | Feb 27, 2006 |
| Last Update | Dec 13, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 533 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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