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"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, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her children, Frank never suspected that she was not his sister. However, at the death of Mrs. Fowler, all this was related to Frank. The children were left alone in the world. It seemed as though they would have to go to the poorhouse but Frank could not become reconciled to that. A kind neighbor agreed to care for Grace, so Frank decided to start out in the world to make his way. He had many disappointments and hardships, but through his kindness to an old man, his own relatives and right name were revealed to him.
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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. I venture to say that among our public men there is not one whose life can be studied with more interest and profit by American youth than that of Abraham Lincoln. It is not alone that, born in an humble cabin, he reached the highest position accessible to an American, but especially because in every position which he was called upon to fill, he did his duty as he understood it, and freely sacrificed personal ease and comfort in the service of the humblest. I have prepared the story of Lincoln’s boyhood and manhood as a companion volume to the life of Garfield, which I published two years since, under the title, “From Canal Boy to President.” The cordial welcome which this received has encouraged me to persevere in my plan of furnishing readers, young and old, with readable lives of the greatest and best men in our history. I can hardly hope at this late day to have contributed many new facts, or found much new material. I have been able, however, through the kindness of friends, to include some anecdotes not hitherto published. But for the most part I have relied upon the well-known and valuable lives of Lincoln by Dr. Holland and Ward H. Lamon. I also acknowledge, with pleasure, my indebtedness to “Six Months in the White House,” by F. B. Carpenter; Henry J. Raymond’s “History of Lincoln’s Administration,” and the “Life of Lincoln,” by D. W. Bartlett. I commend, with confidence, either or all of these works to those of my readers who may desire a more thorough and exhaustive life of “The Backwoods Boy.”
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If you’ve 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. Alger’s works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through hard work, determination, courage, honesty, and morals was popular with both adults and younger readers. Alger’s writings happened to correspond with America’s Gilded Age, a time of increasing prosperity in a nation rebuilding from the Civil War. His lifelong theme of rags to riches continued to gain popularity but has gradually lessened since the 1920s. Still, readers today often come across Ragged Dick and stories like it in school.
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Seven of Horatio Alger's most famous stories, together in a single volume. A collection that answers the needs of the student or the dabbling reader.
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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Horatio Alger tells the story of young boy from New York, thrust into the heart of poverty, but who makes his way up in the world through a combination of pluck and luck.
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*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Bound to Rise centers around a fourteen-year-old boy named Harry who leaves home in search of work. He is determined to pay a debt his father was forced to incur. By hard work and perseverance, as well as his motto "Live and Learn", Harry overcomes challenges to meet his goal and returns victorious.
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Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort and respectability through good moral behavior, clean living, and determination. The classic "rags to riches" story.
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Horatio Alger was born on January 13, 1832 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States. He was the son of Olive Fenno and Reverend Horatio Alger, a rather sanctimonious Unitarian clergyman, who was determined that his son should follow in his footsteps. As a boy the future author was known as "Holy Horatio. "
Alger was educated at Gates Academy and at Harvard, where he distinguished himself in the classics and in French. After three years in teaching and journalism, Alger became a student at the Harvard Divinity School, supporting himself the while by tutoring and writing for the press. He graduated from Harvard in 1860.
Alger showed no immediate inclination for the ministry but instead spent in Paris a year marked by futile indiscretions and equally futile remorse. He then returned to Cambridge as a private tutor. On December 8, 1864, he was, however, at last ordained minister of a Unitarian church, in Brewster, Massachussets, but he resigned two years later and moved to New York to devote himself to literature. There he continued to live until 1896, with the exception of two visits to the Pacific coast in search of copy and another trip to Paris in the course of a frenetic amour which left him temporarily insane. After 1896 he made his home with his sister in Natick, Massachussets, until his death in 1899.
Although he had written several earlier works, it was not until Alger's residence in New York that he found his real vocation. Through his charitable interest in the work of the Newsboys' Lodging House, founded by Charles Loring Brace, he formed an enduring friendship with its superintendent, Charles O'Connor, and became informally identified with the management of the institution. Most of his time he spent in the Lodging House, to which he brought a rescued Chinese foundling, Wing, whom he practically adopted until the boy's death beneath the feet of a runaway horse. By his warm-heartedness and sympathy Alger won the confidence of the street gamins, made innumerable friends among them, and came to know their life in all its details. This life, highly idealized and sentimentalized, henceforth formed the subject of a steady stream of works from his pen. The first of these, Ragged Dick, a serial story that appeared in Oliver Optic's magazine, Student and Schoolmate, in 1867, became at once enormously popular. A. K. Loring, a Boston publisher, immediately contracted on liberal terms for six other stories of the same kind. Thus came into existence a whole series of Ragged Dick, to be followed by further series, Luck and Pluck (1869) and Tattered Tom (1871), no less than eight volumes being required to remove all of Tom's tatters and establish him in perfectly safe respectability. Still other works followed, and although none of the later Alger heroes quite equaled the prototypal Dick in popularity, all of these volumes sold widely.
Alger also wrote biographies of self-made American statesmen, such as From Canal Boy to President (1881), From Farm Boy to Senator (1882), and he brought out a volume of poems, Grandfather Baldwin's Thanksgiving (1875), some of which did not fail to acquire popularity as a medium for public recitations. The enormous income from his writings was, however, owing to his spendthrift habits, insufficient to prevent his dying poor.
Alger's voluminous epics on the moral conquest of poverty exercised an influence on the formation of American youth. Writing with extraordinary rapidity, having on one occasion completed an entire book within two weeks, Alger produced all in all 119 works. The “Horatio Alger Society” was founded in 1947 to honor his memory by awarding scholarships to individuals who have overcome obstacles to succeed.
(If you’ve ever used the phrase “rags to riches,” you owe ...)
(Seven of Horatio Alger's most famous stories, together in...)
(*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography...)
(*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography...)
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(Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. a...)
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Alger was generous to the point of prodigality and was often imposed upon by his ragged protégés. He suffered from a sickly conscience, and, yearning hopelessly to write a really serious novel, was tortured by a sense of frustration.
Alger wanted to marry while he was still a student, but it was prevented by the interference of his father. After that Alger remained unmarried for the rest of his life.
