Horatio Alger eBooks
eBooks editi da Horatio Alger di Formato Mobipocket
Young Captain Jack; Or, The Son of a Soldier. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Horatio Alger - Horatio Alger, 2015 -
The adventures of a boy who is cast upon the Atlantic shore of a Southern State and taken into the home of one of the leading families. The youth grows up as a member of the family, knowing little or nothing of his past. Set at the time of the Civil War, fears of battle and bloodshed fill him and his adopted clan
Ragged Dick. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Horatio Alger - Horatio Alger, 2015 -
Ragged Dick is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger. Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks. It was the first volume in the six volume Ragged Dick Series, and became Alger's all-time bestseller. The tale follows a poor boot black's rise to middle class respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a favorable reception. Student and Schoolmate reported their readers were delighted with the first installment and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would love the novel. One modern scholar considers the story a "puerile fantasy" about class assimilation. The plot and theme were repeated virtually in toto in Alger's subsequent novels and became the grist for parodists and satirists. Ragged Dick and Alger's Silas Snobden's Office Boy inspired the musical comedy Shine! in 1982.