Horatio Jr Alger: 203 books

Joe Bodley has been living with a hermit for a number of years. Finally, he decides to strike out on his own. Joe moves to the city and finds work in hotel. It's a hard row for Joe, and he faces a number of obstacles to success. This edition of the book contains the four original illustrations,...

Phil Brent's mean-spirited step-mother cooks up a scheme to cheat him out of his rightful inheritance by claiming her son is Phil when Phil's father comes looking for him. It is nip-and-tuck through the rest of the book whether Phil will prevail -- indeed, whether he will survive the trials and tribulations...

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...

Horatio Alger Jr. (1832 - 1899) was an American 19th-century writer, known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort. His novel "Shifting for Himself" was published in 1875.

“Where are you goin’, Julius? Where’s yer blackin’ box?” asked Patrick Riley. “I’ve retired from business,” said Julius. “Did yer rich uncle die, and leave yer a fortune?” “No, but he’s goin’ up the river to Sing Sing, for the benefit of his constitushun, and I’m goin’ West fer my health.”

Published in 1892 by the John C. Winston Co., "Digging for Gold" tells this story: overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2,000 miles to seek his fortune in the gold mines of California. Horatio Alger,...

"The Young Adventurer" is the initial volume of the Pacific Series, four stories relating to the Pacific coast and the intervening country. This novel presents the story of Tom Nelson, who aspires to help his father meet a $2,000 mortgage by making his fortune in the California gold fields. Tom...

From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webter written by Horatio Alger Jr. who was an American writer. This book was published in 1882. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While...

Not many minutes walk from Broadway, situated on one of the cross streets intersecting the great thoroughfare, is a large building not especially inviting in its aspect, used as a lodging and boarding-house. It is very far from fashionable, since, with hardly an exception, those who avail themselves...

Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift. He is a good-looking boy that appears aristocratic with a frank and open face. Dick must handle con artists, bullies, false accusations of theft, and, most...

Rough and Ready is Book #4 in the Ragged Dick series, and another exciting story. Rufus (or "Rough & Ready" as his street name), an entrepreneurial newsboy, escapes with his younger sister from an abusive, drunken step-father, and vows to set up a better life for them even though this...

Gilbert Greyson is rich. He is finishing boarding school, readying himself for college, and his future looks bright. And why not? His father willed him $75,000. Today, 2019, that is $1.8 million! A tidy sum, for certain. But his dishonest guardian swindles Gilbert out of his inheritance and in short...

Chester Rand does his best to support himself and his widowed mother on three dollars a week. But, he experiences many work problems from a series of abusive employers. Finally, having had some luck as an artist, Chester leaves Pennsylvania and goes to New York City to do art full-time. Horatio...

Both his parents having died, Ben Stanton is alone. His uncle has just finished settling Ben's father's estate, and Ben has realized $365.19, a princely sum in the 1880s. He has an offer to work for his uncle in Hampton, his small, East-coast hometown, but he's not interested in working inside. Instead,...