{"product_id":"2940149241651","title":"Andy Gordon or, The Fortunes of a Young Janitor (Illustrated)","description":"Our hero, Andy is the son of a poor widow, who works as a janitor at the local school to earn his education. Andy is an excellent student, which earns him the enmity of fop Herbert Ross, the rich and spoiled son of a wealthy lawyer. This version of the book contains 10 illustrations of the period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first episode occurs in the schoolhouse; Andy is sweeping before class begins. Herbert enters and spitefully kicks Andy's pile of dust. Henry then attacks Andy, who in defending himself soundly beats Henry before their teacher, Dr. Euclid, breaks up the fight. Euclid sides with Andy; Henry goes to his father, a trustee of the school, and persuades him to go to Euclid to order Andy's dismissal. Though Mr. Ross falsely accuses Andy of initiating the fight, Euclid refuses to fire Andy. Mr. Ross returns home unsatisfied and desirous of his own vengeance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book continues with many episodes of danger and heroism, and whether Andy will prevail in the end isn't revealed until very close to the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the original or one of the very closest first editions of \"Andy.\" One of the later versions is quite different, much shorter, for example, with lots of the plot minimized and entire chapters omitted. For instance, this version has 44 chapters, while of of the later editions has only 17. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This e-book is a true representation, from a high-definition scan of a pre-1923 print version of the book. Unlike other e-copies of the book, it was not produced by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). OCR-scanning old books is seldom, if ever, error-free. This often results in an e-book with many **, ^^, \u0026gt;\u0026gt; and typographic errors when OCR can't read the word or punctuation correctly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* \"True representation\" means that if there are typographic, spelling, or grammatical errors that the editor judges to have minimal impact on the book's comprehension, they have been preserved; otherwise, they were corrected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* In other words, no changes or as few as possible have been made to either illustrations or text in order to bring you an e-book that is as close to the original as possible.","brand":"New York: Hurst \u0026 Company, 1900","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067981021424,"sku":"2940149241651","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149241651_p0.jpg?v=1764003529","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149241651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}