Horatio Alger Jr. was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the rags-to-riches narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger’s juvenile novels share essentially the same theme: a teenage boy.
FACING THE WORLD or Haps & Mishaps of Harry Vane by Horatio Alger 1911 hardcover. It is complete with 168 pages and measures about 5 by 7 1/4. It is.
Horatio Alger Jr . published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875. In 1853–54, he published short stories with Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion and The Flag of Our Nation.Other Gleason publications printed about 100 stories before he began writing for Student and Schoolmate.. Alger had many publishers over the decades.
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Horatio Alger , also called Horatio Alger , Jr .
(born Jan. 13, 1832, Chelsea, Mass.
U.S.—died July 18, 1899, Natick, Mass.), one of the most popular American authors in the last 30 years of the 19th century and perhaps the most socially influential American writer of his generation.. Alger was the son of a Unitarian minister, Horatio Alger , Sr.
who tutored him in reading from the age of six.
Alger , Horatio , Jr . CAST UPON THE BREAKERS. Foreword by Ralph D. Gardner. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co.
1974. 258p, cloth, illus.
vg in dj. 1st edition. Inscribed by Gardner. Alger (1832-1899) published this story in Argosy magazine in 1893 under the pseudonym Arthur Lee Putnam. This is its first book publication. Seller Inventory # 66133, Horatio Alger , Jr .
was a prolific author in the 19th and early 20th centuries whose books inspired its readers to work hard and persevere through adversity. Alger ’s books – 128 in all – recount how a “can-do spirit” and individual initiative can allow anyone to achieve their dreams, regardless of circumstances.
9/18/2016 · “The Cash Boy,” by Horatio Alger, Jr.
as the name implies, is a story about a boy and for boys. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, …
