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Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys...

Sam isn't too much of a goody-two-shoes, like some Horatio Alger heroes. He even tries to rob his roommate. Then he moves to Boston for a new start and decides to try to become respectable. He walks up Tremont street in perhaps the 1850s stopping in all the stores looking for work, visits the Parker...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Bertha's Christmas Vision was Horatio Alger, Jr.'s first book, although he had been writing as a paid journalist for a local paper. The book is a collection of short stories and verses that share holiday,...

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys...

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A return to classic form, closing the series that opens with Paul the Peddler. In an earlier novel we encounter Julius, who becomes something of a protege for Paul. Julius lives with two of the more convincing...

Lonnie Johnson (18941970) was a virtuoso guitarist who influenced generations of musicians from Django Reinhardt to Eric Clapton to Bill Wyman and especially B. B. King. Born in New Orleans, he began playing violin and guitar in his father’s band at an early age. When most of his family was wiped out...

If youve ever used the phrase rags to riches, you owe that to Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), who popularized the idea through his fictional writings that also served as a theme for the way America viewed itself as a country. Algers works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through hard...

Atlantic Series, by Horatio Alger, Jr., consists of four novels: 1. The Young Circus Rider tells the story of Robert Rudd who at nine years old wandering the country alone when he was offered a job as a circus rider. He accepted, and as the book opens, he is 15, and still riding circus horses....

The Young Circus Rider is the first in Alger's Atlantic Series. In the Preface, he notes that having just completed the Pacific series, the Atlantic Series is set nearer his home. Of course, most of the characters in his books lived in New York City. Robert Rudd was only nine and wandering the country...

Grow a Greener Data Center   A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure   Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Tom Temple's Career is one of the best works by the Horatio Alger Jr. in the field of children's literature. It is one of the vintage collections by the Horatio Alger Jr.

If youve ever used the phrase rags to riches, you owe that to Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), who popularized the idea through his fictional writings that also served as a theme for the way America viewed itself as a country. Algers works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through hard...

From Farm to Fortune Horatio Alger Jr., prolific 19th-century American author (1832-1899) This ebook presents «From Farm to Fortune», from Horatio Alger Jr.. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this...