Alger: 474 books

Falling In With Fortune: The Experiences of a Young Secretary written by Horatio Alger, Jr. and Arthur M. Winfield. This book was published in 1900. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean...

In this exciting story of Chester Rand, a courageous boy in a country grocery store - has a talent for illustrating - and is hired on at 16 as a newspaper artist. From there his life story is full of excitement and wonder - follow this story of personal success of an artist - from the master of personal growth Horatio Alger.(Amazon)

Outanding reading with a moral and a purpose for younger men, by Horatio Alger.

A fine adventure story by Alger. This time not taking place in America but in the gold-fields of Australia

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Bernard Brooks is a fifteen year old orphan who is sent to Ezekiel Snowdon's rural boarding school by his New York guardian, Cornelius McCracken, who secretly appropriated money from the young man. Bernard...

Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift. He is a good-looking boy that appears aristocratic with a frank and open face. Dick must handle con artists, bullies, false accusations of theft, and, most...

Rough and Ready is Book #4 in the Ragged Dick series, and another exciting story. Rufus (or "Rough & Ready" as his street name), an entrepreneurial newsboy, escapes with his younger sister from an abusive, drunken step-father, and vows to set up a better life for them even though this...

Gilbert Greyson is rich. He is finishing boarding school, readying himself for college, and his future looks bright. And why not? His father willed him $75,000. Today, 2019, that is $1.8 million! A tidy sum, for certain. But his dishonest guardian swindles Gilbert out of his inheritance and in short...

Chester Rand does his best to support himself and his widowed mother on three dollars a week. But, he experiences many work problems from a series of abusive employers. Finally, having had some luck as an artist, Chester leaves Pennsylvania and goes to New York City to do art full-time. Horatio...

Both his parents having died, Ben Stanton is alone. His uncle has just finished settling Ben's father's estate, and Ben has realized $365.19, a princely sum in the 1880s. He has an offer to work for his uncle in Hampton, his small, East-coast hometown, but he's not interested in working inside. Instead,...

A Chicago newsboy, Luke Walton, sets out to find the man who has defrauded money from Luke's mother. He is blocked at every turn by evil-doers, and it's not at all certain that Luke will succeed! This edition of the book contains the original frontpiece, rejuvenated, and nine additional illustrations...

This is the second book in The Pacific Series. It is about Tom Nelson's adventures in the California gold mines in an attempt to earn enough money to save his father's farm from being repossessed by the evil Squire Hudson. Tom accumulates and loses his nest egg more than once, but perseveres through...

Do and Dare is the story of Herbert Carr, the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Wayneboro. Widow Carr is upset because Squire Walsingham is using his political influence to take the post away from the widow and put into the hands of his...

A tale by Horato Alger, this time about a young woman.  Great reading for boys and girls ages 9 - 18.