Horatio Alger: 442 books

An inspirational story about how individual traits and efforts help one to rise and progress. It is the story that eloquently compares and contrasts between two characters their attitudes efforts and consequently their success and failure. The book remains an inspiration for those who are ready to put in efforts and move ahead in life.

Excerpt from The Young Book Agent or Frank Hardy's Road to Success After reading this volume it may be thought by some that the hero, Frank Hardy, 18 above his class in tact, intelligence, and perseverance. This, however, is not true. A book agent, or, in fact, an agent of any kind, must possess...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: At nearly sixteen years of age, Tom Nelson sets out for California hoping to earn money in the gold fields to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm, braving thieves, outlaws, and Indians along the way.

Excerpt: “Augustus Fitz-Herbert, as all are aware, Having crossed the Atlantic, and got a moustache on, likewise being son of a known millionaire, stands of course on the very top round of the fashion. Being taught to consider himself, from his birth, as one of the privileged ones of the earth,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: It was a cold day. There was no snow on the ground, but it was frozen into stiff ridges, making it uncom-fortable to walk upon. The sun had been out all day, but there was little heat or comfort in its...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Richard Burton, a ranch owner in Iowa on the Missouri River, is in debt to miser Aaron Wolverton, and makes the semi-annual interest payment on his mortgage. Aaron hates Richard because his wife, Mary Burton,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Helen Ford works as a seamstress in a typical 1800's sweat shop, supporting her father, a dreamer who wants to invent a flying machine. There is money in the family, however, kept at a distance by a deceitful...

A classic adventure tale written for young men between the ages of about eight to eighteen.

Alone and penniless on the streets of New York, runaway orphan Sam Barker turns to theft and petty crime to survive.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Two boys were walking in the campus of the Bridgeville Academy. They were apparently of about the same age-somewhere from fifteen to sixteen-but there was a considerable difference in their attire. Herbert...

     They had scarcely commenced the meal when the father entered. Like his wife, he was coarsely dressed. In personal appearance he resembled his oldest boy. His wife looking up as he entered perceived that he looked troubled.     "What is the matter, Hiram?" she asked. "You look as if something had happened.

Cheated of his inheritance by his scheming stepmother, young Gerald Lane goes to work for a lawyer who sends him on a perilous mission to Montana to recover stolen money.