About Horatio Alger
Born in Revere, Massachusetts, January 13, 1832, Horatio Alger, Jr., grew up in a Calvinist home with a strong focus on education and religion. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard Divinity School in 1852. During the Harvard days he studied under renowned writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the intention of one day becoming a poet.
Alger wrote more than 134 enormously successful dime novels targeted primarily at young boys.
In each of his books, the theme was pretty much the same. It usually focused on a young teenage boy, from a poor and disadvantaged family who would overcome numerous obstacles along the way and triumph to build his own American Dream against the odds.
His three most popular titles consisted of the Ragged Dick series, beginning in 1867, the Luck and Pluck series, first printed in 1869 and the Tattered Tom series which first appeared in 1871.
In the late nineteenth century, Alger was one of America’s best selling authors alongside Samuel Clemmons, better know as author Mark Twain. It was Mark Twain who once said, “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
Born in Revere, Massachusetts, January 13, 1832, Horatio Alger, Jr., grew up in a Calvinist home with a strong focus on education and religion. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard Divinity School in 1852. During the Harvard days he studied under renowned writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the intention of one day becoming a poet.
Alger wrote more than 134 enormously successful dime novels...
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| 1. Andy Grant's Pluck (Hardcover) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: M. A. Donohue
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| 2. Ragged Dick; Or Street Life in New York (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: CreateSpace
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11/02/2012
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| 3. Adrift in New York (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger |
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02/11/2011
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| 4. Ragged Dick (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: ReadaClassic.com
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02/08/2011
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| 5. Facing The World (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Classic Adventures
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01/03/2011
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| 6. The Erie Train Boy (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Classic Adventures
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01/03/2011
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| 7. Bound to Rise; or, Up the Ladder (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger |
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12/31/2010
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| 8. Adrift in New York (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger |
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12/18/2010
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| 9. Facing The World (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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| 10. The Young Explorer (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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| 11. The Young Musician (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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| 12. Young Captain Jack: Or The Son Of A Soldier (1901) (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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| 13. The Erie Train Boy (1891) (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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| 14. Paul Prescott's Charge: A Story For Boys (Hardcover) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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09/10/2010
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| 15. Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (Kindle Ed... Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: ValdeBooks
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09/09/2010
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| 16. Erie Train Boy (Kindle Edition) Author: Horatio Alger |
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08/12/2010
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| 17. The Errand Boy (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: FQ Books
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07/06/2010
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| 18. Phil, the Fiddler (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: FQ Books
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07/06/2010
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| 19. Helping Himself (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: General Books LLC
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03/07/2010
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| 20. Adrift in New York (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: ValdeBooks
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10/19/2009
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| 21. Nothing To Do and Struggling Upward: Two Works by Horatio Alger (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Wildside Press
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04/28/2009
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| 22. The Young Explorer: Or Among The Sierras (1880) (Hardcover) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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04/27/2009
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| 23. Bound to Rise (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
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12/12/2007
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| 24. Walter Sherwood's Probation (Paperback) Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Echo Library
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02/01/2007
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| 25. Ragged Dick or Street Life In New York With the Boot-Blacks - 1910 (Pape... Author: Horatio Alger Publisher: Book Jungle
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