Originally published in serialized form, Ragged Dick is the type of heartwarming young-adult nove...
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author...
Nothing To Eat.Not by the Author of 'Nothing to Wear.'The ArgumentTHOUGH famine prevails not at a...
The pawnbroker saw that he had made a mistake. Paul was not as much in need of money as the major...
'Nat, where have you been?' 'Been fishing,' answered the boy addressed, a sturdy youth of sixteen...
Finally Silas Greyson agreed, and Ben promised to be on hand bright and early the next day. It ma...
A dozen boys were playing ball in a field adjoining the boarding-school of Dr. Pericles Benton, i...
From Canal Boy to President; or, The Boyhood and Manhood of James A. GarfieldHoratio Alger, Jr. (...
'I am going fishing, Randy. Do you want to go along?' 'With pleasure, Jack,' answered Randy Thomp...
Two boys were walking in the campus of the Bridgeville Academy. They were apparently of about the...
'Have you finished breakfast already, Harry?' asked Mrs. Gilbert, as Harry rose hurriedly from th...
A dozen men, provided with rockers, were busily engaged in gathering and washing dirt, mingled wi...