A childhood lie sends Jane Addams from bed into a pitch-black living room, barefoot and afraid—not of the shadows, but that her father may die before she can confess. In a nineteenth-century village, Addams’s earliest memories gather around her father: the comfort of his kindness, the shame of feeling unlike his proud, handsome daughter, and a first glimpse of poverty in the city’s shabby streets. Even her dreams leave her with the impossible task of making a wagon wheel so the world can begin again. Looking back, she traces how a child’s fierce sense of duty took shape—and how it would carry her from home to Hull-House in Chicago, among neighbors living in the very streets she once promised to share. What would that promise ask of her? 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.
