Jr Horatio Alger: 203 books

Horatio Alger Jr. was a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized...

Horatio Alger's "GRIT," also known as "The Young Boatman of Pine Point. Horatio Alger is known for his many "rags to riches" books. "Grit" is one of his later ones.

Sam isn't too much of a goody-two-shoes, like some Horatio Alger heroes. He even tries to rob his roommate. Then he moves to Boston for a new start and decides to try to become respectable. He walks up Tremont street stopping in all the stores looking for work. Sam stumbles into a great job in the usual Alger way and becomes quite successful.

Horatio Alger tells the story of young boy from New York, thrust into the heart of poverty, but who makes his way up in the world through a combination of pluck and luck. Mostly luck. Although Dan does a good job of acting a gentleman and not wasting the money he comes across, fortune is practically...

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.(Amazon)

Alger’s writings happened to correspond with America’s Gilded Age, a time of increasing prosperity in a nation rebuilding from the Civil War.This is another fine work by Alger in the vein of ‘rags to riches’ tales.

A homeless girl lives by her wits on the streets of New York until it is discovered that she’s the long-lost heir to a fortune. In the preface of this book, Alger alerts his readers that Tattered Tom is a girl. She wears a skirt but defends herself admirably against everyone, including her abusive guardian, Margeret.

Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving is a collection of his writings, most of which had previously been published earlier in various periodicals. Several, such as “Carving a Name,” “Where is My Boy Tonight?”, “Last Words,” “Song of the Croaker,” and others, achieved considerable vogue...

Alger describes young men in the city trying to get a head as newsboys, match boys, pedlars, street musicians, and many others. Through luck and hard work, sixteen-year-old Ohio farm boy Nat finds surprising success in nineteenth-century New York City.

A fine adventure story by Alger. This time not taking place in America but in the gold-fields of Australia

An orphan, Joe leaves New York to try his luck in California. He works hard in San Francisco and tries mining on the Yuba River. In Joe?s Luck, Joe had Alger?s essential virtues for success: bravery, generosity, kindness and perseverance.

This book is written in the typical Alger style. Herbert is a poor boy who sets out, with the help of his great uncle, to clear his father's name of a crime he did not commit…

All of Horatio Algers books are so easy to read but they are also very entertaining, in this particular book a boy named Robert struggles as he has trying to survive and succeed in a very hard world, we sometimes forget how hard it is to be poor and have to struggle to even feed ourselves in a world...

A novel that absorbs the reader due to the larger-than-life efforts of the protagonist. It is an in-depth portrayal of how determination courage and hard work lead to success and greatness. Horatio has portrayed America as the emblem of fulfilling and rewarding country. A page-turner!