| Brave and Bold by Horatio Alger, Jr., Fiction, Historical, Action & Adventure Contributor(s): Alger, Horatio, Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1598186523 ISBN-13: 9781598186529 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Horatio Alger was a man who lived with a terrible secret -- a secret dark and troubling -- something shameful, in fact. As a young man, that secret took hold of his life, and he left the life and the life's work he had made for himself in Boston, to take up residence among the poor in New York City. Ensconced there, he worked among the poor -- and took to writing tales of their success. His novels captured the imagination of a nation bursting with a new wave of immigrants who'd come to our shores -- come to the very port of New York City that was Alger's new home. He used the wealth that came to him to help the poor folks who he loved, and took his secret to the grave. It escaped from there, of course. You can find it if you look a bit. But for the purpose of this fine novel of the rise to riches, it will remain unstated . . . |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6" W x 9" (0.51 lbs) 152 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Alger Jr, Horatio: - "Horatio Alger Jr. (1832 - 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age." |