Abraham Lincoln and His Books (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and His Books1. The Books that Made LincolnThe boyhood home of Abraham Lincoln had a library of six books, - the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, Æsop's Fables, Robinson Crusoe, Weems' Life of Washington, and a History of the United States. It was an almost ideal collection of books for a young American. We can trace the influence of these six books upon his subsequent career. He could have found no nobler examples of fine and pure literary style than were available to him in King Jame's version of the Bible, in John Bunyan's immortal allegory and in De Foe's masterpiece. The fables of Æsop gave color to his inherent love of illustrative argument.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.