A five-year-old wants to drive a trick mule in a circus parade. Then Ambition arrives in a silver breastplate and flaming sword—and the boy’s dreams begin to grow more expensive. In George Ade’s early-20th-century America, Ambition is no distant ideal but a persistent visitor, forever revising one boy’s plans. The circus gives way to piracy, military glory, marriage, and the first hundred thousand dollars; each prize soon looks small beside the next. With a comic eye for grand schemes and everyday status symbols, Ade turns a life of striving into a fable about the goalposts that keep moving. When even a fortune feels like failure, what will Ambition demand now? With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.
