๐ Autumn reading time! Let our AI Librarian find your perfect cozy read ๐ซ
Explore the literary world of this author
"You look like a good truthful boy. Here are ten dollars for you.""Oh, thank you, ma'am! You're a gentleman," said Mike overjoyed. "No, I don't mean t...
"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 ...
"Cast Upon the Breakers" is a captivating novel by Horatio Alger, Jr., a renowned American author known for his rags-to-riches stories. The book follo...
Can a lowly shoeshine boy called Dick make his way up the ladder to bigger and better things or is he destined to be poor for his whole life? This cla...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
Horatio Alger Jr. January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was an American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and the...
And Mark, the Match Boy
"Though not Alger's first book, Ragged Dick, published in 1867, was the beginning of his series of stories of poor boys who rose from [rags] to riches...
Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
This is a typical rags-to-riches story about a young boy growing to success through honorable behavior and hard work. The prominent personage is Ragge...
During the deathbed confession of his caregiver, young Ernest learns that he has been cheated of a large inheritance, and circumstances later lead him...
Selected Stories of Horatio Alger Jr.: Horatio Alger Jr. Chronicles Tales of Hard Work and Success by Horatio Alger Jr.
Selected Stories of Horatio Alger Jr. by Horatio Alger Jr.: Step into the world of rags-to-riches tales and moral lessons with Selected Stories of Hor...
The Fortunes of Robert Rushton...
Ragged Dick; Or Street Life in New York is a work by Horatio Alger Jr. now brought to you in this new edition of the timeless classic....
Rising Beyond by Horatio Alger Jr. offers profound insights and practical guidance inspired by his enduring literary legacy. By embracing these princi...
"Cast Upon the Breakers" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From...
An Anthology of American Youth Valor and Adventure
In 'Young Captain Jack; Or, The Son of a Soldier,' readers are invited into a meticulously curated anthology that encapsulates the essence of turn-of-...
Cast Upon the Breakers By Jr. Horatio Alger...
Julius, The Street Boy: Horatio Alger Jr.'s Tale of Determination
A homeless New York City boy is taken west by a benefactor to work on a farm and ends up rescuing a little girl kidnapped by a vengeful Indian. Aka: J...
Phil Brent was plodding through the snow in the direction of the house where he lived with his step-mother and her son, when a snow-ball, moist and ha...
Bestseller Book by Horatio Alger Jr.: The Young Explorer
Embark on a Journey of Courage and Adventure with "The Young Explorer" by Horatio Alger (Jr.) Prepare to be swept away on a thrilling adventure with "...
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 writin...
Horatio Alger was an American writer and an author of more than one hundred books, most of which were written for young readers. His best known work i...
Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks: Original Text
Another of Dick's faults was his extravagance. Being always wide-awake and ready for business, he earned enough to have supported him comfortably and ...
From the 1860's through the 1890s, Horatio Alger wrote hundreds of novels to teach young boys the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in th...
The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield...
The Young Explorer: Horatio Alger Jr.'s Tale of Adventure and Growth
Ben Stanton goes to California to search for gold and befriends a Chinese immigrant....
Large Print
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...
By Horatio Alger, Jr
...
A Story of California
Overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2,000 miles to seek his fortu...
From the depths of a humble canal boy's life rises the extraordinary tale of James A. Garfield, encapsulated in Horatio Alger's remarkable work, 'From...
And The World Before Him
In the first story, Adrift in New York - disowned by her guardian in nineteenth-century New York City, seventeen-year-old Florence is befriended by To...
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in Student and Schoolmate ...
Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Jr. Horatio Alger...
Although he manages to make a living as a shoeshine boy in late-1860s New York City, fourteen-year-old Dick Hunter, an orphan, remains homeless and wi...
From the publication of Ragged Dick in 1867 through to the 1930s, Horatio Algerโs tales of young boys overcoming adversity were part of the mainstre...
"Paul the Peddler; Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant" is a captivating novel by Horatio Alger that follows the journey of Paul, a young stre...
First published in 1902 by Street & Smith, New York....
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.Horatio Alger Jr. Janua...
YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK" relates the adventures of a boy waif, who is cast upon the Atlantic shore of one of our Southern States and taken into one of the ...