The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic Works

by Horatio Alger Jr.

The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK(r) presents 70 Classic Works by the great 19th century author. Here ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOY
DIGGING FOR GOLD
MARK THE MATCH BOY
BOB BURTON
ANDY GORDON
THE BACKWOODS BOY
A BOY'S FORTUNE
A DEBT OF HONOR
BERNARD BROOKS' ADVENTURES
WAIT AND HOPE
MARK MASON'S VICTORY
ROBERT COVERDALE'S STRUGGLE
BEN, THE LUGGAGE BOY
RUFUS AND ROSE
THE YOUNG ADVENTURER
THE YOUNG MINER
THE TIN BOX
TOM, THE BOOTBLACK
A COUSIN'S CONSPIRACY
IN A NEW WORLD
LUKE WALTON
THE ERIE TRAIN BOY
THE YOUNG OUTLAW
SAM'S CHANCE
BEN'S NUGGET
SLOW AND SURE
THE YOUNG BANK MESSENGER
THE TELEGRAPH BOY
CHESTER RAND
FROM FARM TO FORTUNE
THE YOUNG ACROBAT OF THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN CIRCUS
RAGGED DICK
FAME AND FORTUNE
RANDY OF THE RIVER
YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK
FRANK AND FEARLESS
ADRIFT IN NEW YORK
PAUL THE PEDDLER
PHIL, THE FIDDLER
JOE THE HOTEL BOY
THE ERRAND BOY
FRED SARGENT'S REVENGE
THE SMUGGLER'S TRAP
THE CASH BOY
PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE
BRAVE AND BOLD
DRIVEN FROM HOME
CAST UPON THE BREAKERS
FROM CANAL BOY TO PRESIDENT
ANDY GRANT'S PLUCK
MAKING HIS WAY
FACING THE WORLD
JOE'S LUCK
BOUND TO RISE
RISEN FROM THE RANKS
HERBERT CARTER'S LEGACY
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
WALTER SHERWOOD'S PROBATION
NOTHING TO EAT
HELPING HIMSELF
TRY AND TRUST
DO AND DARE
HECTOR'S INHERITANCE
THE YOUNG MUSICIAN
STRUGGLING UPWARD
ONLY AN IRISH BOY
JACK'S WARD
THE STORE BOY
FRANK'S CAMPAIGN
TIMOTHY CRUMP'S WARD

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Kindle Edition

Published October 22, 2016

About the author

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, most famous for his novels following the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort. His novels about boys who succeed under the tutelage of older mentors were hugely popular in their day.

Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of a Unitarian minister, Alger entered Harvard University at the age of sixteen. Following graduation, he briefly worked in education before touring Europe for almost a year. He then entered the Harvard Divinity School, and, in 1864, took a position at a Unitarian church in Brewster, Massachusetts. Two years later, he resigned following allegations he had sexual relations with two teenage boys.[1] He retired from the ministry and moved to New York City where he formed an association with the Newsboys Lodging House and other agencies offering aid to impoverished children. His sympathy for the working boys of the city, coupled with the moral values learned at home, were the basis of his many juvenile rags to riches novels illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others. This widely held view involves Alger's characters achieving extreme wealth and the subsequent remediation of their "old ghosts." Alger is noted as a significant figure in the history of American cultural and social ideals. He died in 1899.

The first full-length Alger biography was commissioned in 1927 and published in 1928, and along with many others that borrowed from it later proved to be heavily fictionalized parodies perpetuating hoaxes and made up anecdotes that "would resemble the tell-all scandal biographies of the time."[2] Other biographies followed, sometimes citing the 1928 hoax as fact. In the last decades of the twentieth century a few more reliable biographies were published that attempt to correct the errors and fictionalizations of the past.

Reviews

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can’t believe I made it through this mammoth collection. There are seventy Horatio Alger books in one giant file, thanks to the magic of Kindle. The hero is the same in all the books–a “well-favored” boy of 13 or 14, and his scrupulous honesty and hard work always help him rise in the world. Alger definitely had an agenda, but it was a good one. He wanted to help young boys get ahead in the world, and he was especially concerned with the homeless boys on the streets of the big cities. His books brought about the changes he hoped for, and they were hugely popular, besides. I enjoyed them all, and now I’m re-reading some of my favorites.