The Burglar and the Blizzard

by Alice Duer Miller

Overview

This book belongs to children's literature and is one of notable books of every child should know series. The stories or fairy tales belong to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life. In ultimate importance it outranks the arithmetic, the grammar, the geography, the manuals of science; for without the aid of the imagination none of these books is really comprehensible. Although the readers of this book are main children, many people also like this book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781604446029
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	11/22/2011
Pages:	82
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Alice Duer was born in New York City on July 28, 1874 into a wealthy family. She was the daughter of James Gore King Duer and Elizabeth Wilson Meads. At the time of her entrance into society, her family lost most of its fortune. She entered Barnard College in 1895 studying mathematics and astronomy. She helped to pay for her studies by selling novels and short essays. She and her sister, Caroline, jointly published a book of poems. Alice graduated in June 1899.

Duer Miller died in 1942, and was interred at Evergreen Cemetery in Morristown, New Jersey.