| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
v, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Crossroads -- Budding writer -- Fair Harvard -- The Reverend Horatio Alger, Jr. -- The first boys' book -- Paul Prescott's charge -- The Brewster affair -- The arrival of ragged Dick -- Lion among the juveniles -- Rough and ready -- The established writer -- The sage of tattered Tom -- The new crusade -- Experimentation -- Way out west -- Painting America -- Shifting with the wind -- Horatio out west -- The unchangeable Alger -- More of the same -- In the mold -- End of an era -- Horatio Alger in history -- The published Alger. |
| Subject |
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
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| ISBN |
0801959667 |
|
9780801959660 |
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