1.the great novelist
2. the
3. - 
4. his
5. father of the family 
6. his farm 
7. to the town
8. his children
9. to school 
10. earning for living at an early age 
11. sold papers in the streets 
12. at the age .. in a factory
13. hours a day 
14. a sailor
15. a lot
16. - very hard work
17. read a lot; an education
18. to school; to university 
19. a lot of books on history
20. a writer
21. to the Far North of America
22. the yellow metal
23. a book of stories about his life in the North 
24. the ambition; the writer