Download or read book The Lost Life of Horatio Alger Jr written by Gary Scharnhorst and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches juvenile novels of poor boys parlaying "luck and pluck'' into "fame and fortune"' did much to shape and popularize the American success myth. This is a biography of the intensely private man. Ousted from a Unitarian pulpit in Brewster, Massachusetts, in 1866 for sodomizing young boys, Alger spent the final half of his life obscuring his past, and ordered all personal papers burned after his death in 1899. In 1927, the essential Alger was further obscured when Herbert Mayes published a fabricated biography based on a nonexistent diary which "exposed'' Alger as a lecher who wrote to fund his travels in pursuit of a married woman.

Download or read book Strive and Succeed Or The Progress of Walter Conrad written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Brave and Bold written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Brave and Bold by Horatio Alger

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Download or read book The Telegraph Boy Illustrated written by Horatio Alger and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have two children," she said, "a daughter and a son. The son has recently graduated from college, and is now travelling in Europe. My daughter is now twenty-six years of age. She was beautiful, and our social position was such that my husband, who is a proud man, confidently anticipated that she would make a brilliant match. But at the age of nineteen Ellen fell in love with a clerk in my husband's employ. He was a young man of good appearance and character, and nothing could be said against him except that he was poor. This, however, was more than enough in Mr. Graham's eyes. When Lawrence Brent asked for the hand of our daughter, my husband drove him from the house with insult, and immediately discharged him from his employ. Ellen was high-spirited, and resented this treatment of the man she loved. He soon obtained a place quite as good as the one he had lost, and one day Ellen left the house and married him. She wrote to us, excusing her action, and I would gladly have forgiven her; but her father was obdurate. He forbade my mentioning her name to him, and from that day to this he has never referred to her. In late-nineteenth-century New York City, fifteen-year-old Frank Kavanagh's job as messenger boy brings him many adventures, new friendships, and eventually a great improvement in his fortunes. 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. Alger's name is often invoked incorrectly as though he himself rose from rags to riches, but that arc applied to his characters, not to the author. Essentially, all of Alger's novels share the same theme: a young boy struggles through hard work to escape poverty. Critics, however, are quick to point out that it is not the hard work itself that rescues the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy elder gentleman, who takes the boy in as a ward. The boy might return a large sum of money that was lost or rescue someone from an overturned carriage, bringing the boy—and his plight—to the attention of some wealthy individual. It has been suggested that this reflects Alger's own patronizing attitude to the boys he tried to help.

Download or read book Selected Stories of Horatio Alger Jr written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Horatio Alger Jr Collection Novels written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger Jr. (1832 -1899) was a prolific 19th-century American writer, 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. In this book: Grit Luck and Pluck Ragged Dick The Store Boy In Search of Treasure

Download or read book Frank s Campaign Or The Farm and the Camp written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-08-12 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank's Campaign; Or, The Farm and the Camp" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Download or read book Luck and Pluck written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Luck and Pluck by Horatio Alger

Download or read book The Young Salesman written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Young Salesman" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book Ben the Luggage Boy written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Ben runs away from home after a conflict with his father and lives on the streets of New York City for years, but his mother still hopes to see him again.

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Download or read book Paul the Peddler Or The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Young Explorer written by Horatio Alger and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Young Explorer is a novel by Horatio Alger that tells the story of a young man who travels to the West in search of his fortune. Along the way, he learns valuable lessons about hard work, perseverance, and honesty. This book is a classic example of Alger's rags-to-riches stories. 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 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. 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 Struggling Upward Or Luke Larkin s Luck written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He has struggled upward from a boyhood of privation and self-denial into a youth and manhood of prosperity and honor ... he is indebted for most of his good fortune to his own good qualities."--Back cover