Author: Horatio Alger (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Do and Dare, Or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Do and Dare, Or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Author: Horatio AlgerDo and Dare - a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Author: Jr. Horatio AlgerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781722779399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Do and Dare - a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune shows how bad decisions can lead to bad consequences. Herbert Carr is a great role model; honest, loyal, and hardworking. Do and Dare is part of a series of rags to riches stories of boys working hard and achieving the American dream of wealth. The stories can be seen as tracing American cultural and social patterns. Horatio Alger, Jr. authored about seventy books. He was the son of a clergyman, graduated from Harvard. His stories are pure, inspiring and as endearing today as they were when first published.
Do and Dare, Or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Author: Horatio AlgerDo and Dare; Or A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Author: Jr. Horatio AlgerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368345370
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Do and Dare
Author: Horatio Alger (Jr.)Do and Dare
Author: Horatio Alger Jr.Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781502496966
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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 writings that also served as a theme for the way America viewed itself as a country. Alger's works about poor boys rising to better living conditions through hard work, determination, courage, honesty, and morals was popular with both adults and younger readers. Alger's writings happened to correspond with America's Gilded Age, a time of increasing prosperity in a nation rebuilding from the Civil War. His lifelong theme of rags to riches continued to gain popularity but has gradually lessened since the 1920s. Still, readers today often come across Ragged Dick and stories like it in school.
Do and Dare
Author: Jr Horatio AlgerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540347336
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Hero Herbert Carr is the son of a war widow who had assumed her husband's place as postmaster of the small rural town in Waynesboro. Widow Carr is upset because Squire Walsingham is using his political influence to take the post away from the widow to put into the hands of his nephew, Ebenezer Graham, the local miser and shopkeeper. Walsingham succeeds in his efforts and the post is given to Mr. Graham. Since Mr. Graham is uncertain of how to run a post office, he offers to hire Herbert for a pittance to run things until he learns what must be done. However, Mr. Graham's son, Eben Graham, a fop/spendthrift, returns from Boston where he had been a shop clerk. Fired because of his own arrogance, he returns home seeking employment. Mr. Graham fires Herbert and hires his son. Herbert is at first dismayed, but then encounters his patron, George Melville, a young man who is incredibly wealthy (the amount of his fortune is never disclosed), who had trained to be a lawyer but was forced to abandon his practice due to consumption. He offers Herbert an extravagant amount weekly to engage him in outdoor activities to cure his illness. Henry is extremely happy with this opportunity to care for his mother and readily agrees. When Eben hears about Herbert's windfall, he is outraged, feeling that he would be the better companion. After going to Melville's hotel suite and asking him for Herbert's job (and being refused), he organizes a plot of false accusation to have Herbert arrested on charges of theft from the post office. Although Herbert is taken before the judge, his previous good behavior convinces all involved that he is innocent. Furthermore, George Melville uses his education in law to prove that Eben was the true thief in cross-examination.
Do and Dare
Author: Alger HoratioPublisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456618792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Herbert did not look forward with very joyful anticipations to the new engagement he had formed. He knew very well that he should not like Ebenezer Graham as an employer, but it was necessary that he should earn something, for the income was now but two dollars a week. He was sorry, too, to displace Tom Tripp, but upon this point his uneasiness was soon removed, for Tom dropped in just after Mr. Graham had left the house, and informed Herbert that he was to go to work the next day for a farmer in the neighborhood, at a dollar and a half per week, and board besides. "I am glad to hear it, Tom," said Herbert, heartily. "I didn't want to feel that I was depriving you of employment." "You are welcome to my place in the store," said Tom. "I'm glad to give it up. Mr. Graham seemed to think I was made of iron, and I could work like a machine, without getting tired. I hope he pays you more than a dollar and a half a week." "He has agreed to pay me three dollars," said Herbert.
Do and Dare Or a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune
Author: Horatio AlgerPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781404382664
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description