Cast Upon the Breakers - Softcover

Alger, Horatio Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483704963 ISBN 13: 9781483704968

Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2014

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Cast Upon the Breakers revolves around the struggles of a boy, Rodney, who must overcome adversity, dishonesty, villains and bad luck to succeed. It 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.

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Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was an American writer best known for his boys' novels of poverty, perseverance, honesty, and social advancement. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, Alger became one of the most widely read juvenile authors of the nineteenth century. His fiction often follows poor or disadvantaged boys who improve their circumstances through work, education, courage, thrift, and moral conduct, sometimes aided by fortunate encounters with kindly patrons or employers. The phrase "Horatio Alger story" became shorthand for the American idea of rising from humble beginnings through effort and character.Alger's most famous novel, Ragged Dick, first appeared in serial form in 1867 and was published as a book in 1868. Set among New York City bootblacks and street boys, it established the pattern that made his name famous: the movement from hardship toward respectability, not sudden wealth, through self-discipline and opportunity. His work remains important to the history of American children's literature, boys' fiction, social-mobility narratives, New York street-life fiction, and nineteenth-century popular culture.

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• Verlag: Bottom of the Hill Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1483704963
• ISBN 13: 9781483704968
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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