Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Abraham Lincoln are presented in a fictionalized biography, from his youth on the Kentucky frontier to his momentous presidency.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy Or How a Young Rail Splitter Became President written by Horatio Alger and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy Or How a Young Rail splitter Became President written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and career of Abraham Lincoln are presented in a fictionalized biography, from his youth on the Kentucky frontier to his momentous presidency.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy or How a Young Rail Splitter Became President written by Alger Horatio, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger Jr. ( January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual. Alger secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of his fourth book, Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability. This novel was a huge success. His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured casts of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth, the noble mysterious stranger, the snobbish youth, and the evil, greedy squire. In the 1870s, Alger's fiction was growing stale. His publisher suggested he tour the American West for fresh material to incorporate into his fiction. Alger took a trip to California, but the trip had little effect on his writing: he remained mired in the tired theme of "poor boy makes good." The backdrops of these novels, however, became the American West rather than the urban environments of the northeastern United States. In the last decades of the 19th century, Alger's moral tone coarsened with the change in boys' tastes. Sensational thrills were wanted by the public. The Protestant work ethic had loosened its grip on America, and violence, murder, and other sensational themes entered Alger's works. Public librarians questioned whether his books should be made available to the young. They were briefly successful, but interest in Alger's novels was renewed in the first decades of the 20th century, and they sold in the thousands. By the time he died in 1899, Alger had published around a hundred volumes. He is buried in South Natick, Massachusetts. Since 1947, the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans has awarded scholarships and prizes to deserving individuals......
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Angelo Patri and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy written by Horatio Alger, Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger, Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Essentially, all of Alger's juvenile novels share the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often though, it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual.
Download or read book The Backwoods Boy or The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Backwoods Boy is a biography by Horatio Alger Jr. it depicts the boyhood and manhood of Abraham Lincoln as he rose up to become the sixteenth US President.
Download or read book The Backwoods Boy written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized biography of Lincoln with emphasis on his moral character.
Download or read book The Backwoods Boy or the Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln the Backwoods Boy written by Horatio Alger and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Pioneer Boy and how He Became President written by William Makepeace Thayer and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Backwoods Boy Or The Boyhood and Manhood of Abraham Lincoln written by Horatio Alger, Jr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age.All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual.Alger secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of his fourth book, Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability. This novel was a huge success. His many books that followed were essentially variations on Ragged Dick and featured casts of stock characters: the valiant hard-working, honest youth, the noble mysterious stranger, the snobbish youth, and the evil, greedy squire.In the 1870s, Alger's fiction was growing stale. His publisher suggested he tour the American West for fresh material to incorporate into his fiction. Alger took a trip to California, but the trip had little effect on his writing: he remained mired in the tired theme of "poor boy makes good." The backdrops of these novels, however, became the American West rather than the urban environments of the northeastern United States.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln written by Mary H. Wade and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Backwoods Boy Annotated and Illustrated written by Horatio Horatio Alger Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.I venture to say that among our public men there is not one whose life can be studied with more interest and profit by American youth than that of Abraham Lincoln. It is not alone that, born in an humble cabin, he reached the highest position accessible to an American, but especially because in every position which he was called upon to fill, he did his duty as he understood it, and freely sacrificed personal ease and comfort in the service of the humblest. I have prepared the story of Lincoln's boyhood and manhood as a companion volume to the life of Garfield, which I published two years since, under the title, "From Canal Boy to President." The cordial welcome which this received has encouraged me to persevere in my plan of furnishing readers, young and old, with readable lives of the greatest and best men in our history. I can hardly hope at this late day to have contributed many new facts, or found much new material. I have been able, however, through the kindness of friends, to include some anecdotes not hitherto published. But for the most part I have relied upon the well-known and valuable lives of Lincoln by Dr. Holland and Ward H. Lamon. I also acknowledge, with pleasure, my indebtedness to "Six Months in the White House," by F. B. Carpenter; Henry J. Raymond's "History of Lincoln's Administration," and the "Life of Lincoln," by D. W. Bartlett. I commend, with confidence, either or all of these works to those of my readers who may desire a more thorough and exhaustive life of "The Backwoods Boy."
Download or read book The Pioneer Boy and How He Became President The Story of the Life of Abraham Lincoln written by William Makepeace Thayer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln written by Wayne Whipple and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
