Homer Greene

Homer Greene
Homer Greene was an American lawyer, author, and poet, best known for his contributions to juvenile fiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1853 in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Union College and practiced law while pursuing a writing career. His most famous work is the novel "The Blind Brother," which is a touching story about loyalty and sacrifice set in a coal mining community. Greene wrote other popular works, including "Burnham Breaker," and his writings often reflected themes of moral integrity and human compassion.

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THE FLAG CHAPTER I Snow everywhere; freshly fallen, white and beautiful. It lay unsullied on the village roofs, and, trampled but not yet soiled, in the village streets. The spruce trees on the lawn at Bannerhall were weighted with it, and on the lawn itself it rested, like an ermine blanket, soft and satisfying. Down the steps of the porch that stretched across the front of the mansion, a boy ran,... more...

CHAPTER I. A SURPRISE IN THE SCREEN-ROOM. The city of Scranton lies in the centre of the Lackawanna coal-field, in the State of Pennsylvania. Year by year the suburbs of the city creep up the sides of the surrounding hills, like the waters of a rising lake. Standing at any point on this shore line of human habitations, you can look out across the wide landscape and count a score of coal-breakers within... more...