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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...

According to Wikipedia: "Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was formulaic juvenile novels that followed the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from...

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...

*** 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...

Paul Hoffman is a fourteen-year-old young man who sells "prize packages." An elementary gambling game, he sells envelopes that have either candy or money in them; although the odds are poor, the price to play is cheap, and he performs well. Paul is a second generation American, whose late...

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...

Facing the World, a classic collection of adventures, narrates the story of a boy who flees away from a cruel guardian and is fortunate enough to find a loyal friend. Together they journey by sea far and wide. Alger has beautifully captured life, and its various aspects like strife, success in the...

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...

Our story starts off with a bang: During the deathbed confession of his caregiver, young Ernest learns that he has been cheated of a large inheritance, and circumstances later lead him to confront the deceitful relative. Like many of the wonderful Alger stories, honesty, hard work, education and persistence...

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,...

Rufus and Rose is last of six books in the Ragged Dick series Alger wrote about the life of struggling boys in New York City, a place that had to be pretty scary at the end of the 19th century. "Newsboys," sold newspapers one at a time on the streets, and "boot blacks" shined the...

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...