Horatio Alger: 442 books

Published in 1884, this is the story of the struggles of a young boy in the late-19th century, when most young people had to make their living through hard work, without any family support or any other external help. Left penniless after his inheritance is lost by his guardian, sixteen-year-old...

Philip Gray's father has died, destitute, and Squire Pope, who, of course, owns his home, throws Philip out with nothing except a stock certificate for 100 shares in a California gold mine, a note for a large sum of money which is probably useless, his father's gold watch, and his violin. Philip encounters...

John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long lost son – if alive. John thinks it would be best if Florence and Curtis were married, and makes it a requirement if Florence wishes to have any of...

Adrift in the City follows the adventures of Oliver Conrad, who, at fifteen, lives in a country mansion with his stepfather, stepbrother and mother. Oliver’s stepfather secretly commits his mother to a madhouse to steal her estate and pretends she has died. To get Oliver out of the picture, his...

"The story of a very good boy who is the victim of a wicked stepmother. He is driven from home and is always brave, and by the exercise of these virtues he becomes great and prosperous, and finally recovers the property his enemy has for a time kept from him. The story starts in New England,...

Bernard Brooks, a fifteen-year-old orphan, is sent to Ezekiel Snowdon's rural boarding school by his New York guardian, Cornelius McCracken, who has secretly appropriated $10,000 belonging to Bernard. Bernard runs away from the school to avoid undeserved beatings. He meets many characters along...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Young Captain Jack relates the adventures of a boy waif, who is cast upon the Atlantic shore of one of our Southern States and taken into one of the leading families of the locality. The youth grows up...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was an American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mother and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. He detects a young man in the act of picking the pocket...

Our hero is the son of a poor widow. Andy works as a janitor at the local school to earn his education. Andy is an excellent student, which earns him the enmity of fop Herbert Ross, the rich and spoiled son of a wealthy lawyer. The first episode occurs in the schoolhouse; Andy is sweeping before...

Another tale by Horatio Alger, intended to instruct and encourage young men down the paty of self esteem.  Well worth the read.

In A Boy's Fortune, Ben Baker, 16, leaves his widowed mother in Connecticut, to seek his fortune in New York City. He goes to New York and takes a job working in his rich uncle's department store, unaware that his uncle made his fortune by robbing Ben's late father. Five years earlier, Ben’s father...

When his father can no longer afford to pay for his education, young Andy Grant experiences both good and bad fortune as he tries to make his way in the world. Accused of a theft of jewelry he did not commit, Andy nonetheless loses his first job in New York City. But, believed in by a wealthy real...

Hector's Inheritance was published in 1900. It tells the story of Hector Roscoe, whose uncle does everything in his power to cheat Hector out of his rightful inheritance. At the time he was saving his money, Hector regarded himself as the heir and future possessor of a large estate, and had no expectation...