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In this exciting story of Chester Rand, a courageous boy in a country grocery store - has a talent for illustrating - and is hired on at 16 as a newspaper artist. From there his life story is full of excitement and wonder - follow this story of personal success of an artist - from the master of personal growth Horatio Alger.
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Many of the villains in his books are rich boys who never had to make any effort to improve their character. Alger's main point was that striving for success is not just to 'get a fortune' but could give us tenacity, discipline, frugality and optimism - qualities which cannot be bought.
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"Brave and Bold" was the first in a new series of Alger novels published by Loring, and the first in which sex rears its head. Before Brave and Bold, the girls of the hero's age were sisters or simply prop figures. In this new book, Hester Paine, the lovely daughter of Millville's most prominent citizen and the reigning village belle, becomes a source of fascination and contention for "factory boy" hero Robert Rushton and his nemesis, the rich, snobbish,...
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In Alger's books, real boys are seen doing honest things and being successful. Helping Himself begins with Deacon Gridley, who was a farmer. Gridley had managed to save a little money. His thriftiness meant that he had also hoarded all of the interest. Here our young hero enters the tale.
86) Helen Ford
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Helen Ford works as a seamstress in a typical 1800's sweatshop, 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 nephew who schemes to take the fortune for himself. The nephew has kept the family separated for some time. This is suspense and mystery.
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"Mother, this is an important day for me," said Grant Colburn, as he entered the kitchen with an armful of wood, and deposited it in the box behind the stove. His mother looked up from the table where she was cutting out pie crust, and asked in surprise, "What do you mean, Grant? Why is to-day any different from ordinary days?" "I am sixteen to-day, mother!"
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Kit, a young teen boy, is an orphan. He is cheated of his inheritance by his guardian. His guardian sends him off to work with a brutal, stupid blacksmith. The boy runs away. He joins the circus. He is followed by the blacksmith. The boy stays away from him. He becomes a big star in the circus. Later, he is restored to his rightful place with the help of a man who was his father's friend. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
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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, took Richard's proposal above his own. He hates the hero Bob, Richard's son, because Bob has actively and physically defended Aaron's ward and nephew, Sam, from his unjust guardianship. On the way home from this trip, Richard stops and drinks...
92) The Store Boy
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Another in the popular series of tales about real boys who 'did honest things successfully'. Several years have elapsed. Ben is in the office of a real estate lawyer in New York, as junior partner. All Mrs. Hamilton's business is in his hands, and it is generally thought that he will receive a handsome legacy from her eventually. Mrs. Barclay prefers to live in Pentonville, but Ben often visits her. Whenever he goes to Pentonville he never fails to...
93) The Cash Boy
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A group of boys was assembled in an open field to the west of the public schoolhouse in the town of Crawford. Most of them held hats in their hands, while two, stationed sixty feet distant from each other, were "having catch." Tom Pinkerton, son of Deacon Pinkerton, had just returned from Brooklyn, and while there had witnessed a match game between two professional clubs. On his return he proposed that the boys of Crawford should establish a club,...
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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 a 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. This is the...
96) Ragged Dick
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Ragged Dick (1868) is the first in a series of six novels by American author Horatio Alger. In each, Alger uses the Protestant work ethic as a template to not only examine the harsh realities of urban poverty, but provide a hopeful, concrete moral for his young readers.
Dick is a teenage bootblack who lives and works on the streets of New York City. Despite his difficult circumstances, he never loses hope. Dick is determined to both survive and make...
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The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK® presents 70 Classic Works by the great 19th century author. Here are:
ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOY
DIGGING FOR GOLD
MARK THE MATCH BOY
BOB BURTON
ANDY GORDON
THE BACKWOODS BOY
A BOY'S FORTUNE
A DEBT OF HONOR
BERNARD BROOKS' ADVENTURES
WAIT AND HOPE
MARK MASON'S VICTORY
ROBERT COVERDALE'S STRUGGLE
BEN, THE LUGGAGE BOY
RUFUS AND ROSE
THE YOUNG ADVENTURER
THE YOUNG MINER
THE TIN BOX
TOM, THE BOOTBLACK
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