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Our
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Horatio Alger Jr book, titled:
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Published
by: FEDERAL BOOK COMPANY
Cover: HARDCOVER
Format: F-SERIES FOR BOYS (GLUED PIC)
Edition: REPRINT
Copyright Year:***copyright***
Horatio
Alger (1832 - 1899) was one of the most influential
American authors of the 19th century, who wrote Erie Train Boy, The.
A prolific author, he wrote more than a hundred books on the same
theme: that honesty, cheerfulness, virtue,
thrift, and hard work would be rewarded with success.
While his plots and dialogue sometimes lacked creativity, he can
be credited with helping to create an uniquely American philosophy
of Strive and Succeed. Titles such as Sink or Swim,
Shifting for Himself, and Erie Train Boy, The convinced generations
that they could triumph over their circumstances and become an Alger
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
1832-1899
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FAQ
HORATIO ALGER JR:
Copyright (c) 1996 by Bill Roach All rights reserved.
1. Who was Horatio Alger?
Horatio Alger, Jr. was an American author (1832-1899). Alger
produced the one of the first boys' adventure series. Alger
published over 118 novels in book form. Another 280 novels were
produced in magazines along with more than five hundred short stories.
His young heroes succeed through a mixture of pluck and luck.
They are lucky, in part, because they deserve to be lucky. A
given hero may appear in several books, e.g., "Ragged Dick,"
but the books do not have a common set of characters. Regardless
of their names, the heroes are remarkably similar. Horatio Alger,
Jr. was the oldest of five children of a debt-ridden
New England, Unitarian minister. He was very frail. He
was under weight and undersized, suffered from bronchial asthma, and
near sightedness. Because of his poor health, the family deferred
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