Author: ALGER JR. , HORATIO
Title: Sink Or Swim Or, Harry Raymond's Resolve
Description: Boston, MA: Loring, Publisher, 1870. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, rubbing, bumping and wear. There is noticeable rubbing to the spine ends, corners and covers of the book. The top spine joints have fraying and smallish edge tears. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are pages with spots of foxing throughout. There is some pulling to the string binding of the book covers. "Horatio Alger Jr. (/'aeld? ? R/; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme: a teenage boy improves his circumstances by virtuous behavior. There is a "Horatio Alger myth" that the boy becomes wealthy through hard work, but this is inaccurate. In the actual stories, invariably the cause of success is an accident that works to the boy's advantage after he conducts himself according to traditional virtues such as honesty, charity, and altruism. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage." (from Wikipedia). Good .
Keywords: Young Adult Horatio Alger Jr. Sink Or Swim Series Rags To Riches Stories Youth Series
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Title: Sink Or Swim Or, Harry Raymond's Resolve
Description: Boston, MA: Loring, Publisher, 1870. Early printing. Hardcover. This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, rubbing, bumping and wear. There is noticeable rubbing to the spine ends, corners and covers of the book. The top spine joints have fraying and smallish edge tears. The text pages are generally clean and bright, though there are pages with spots of foxing throughout. There is some pulling to the string binding of the book covers. "Horatio Alger Jr. (/'aeld? ? R/; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American writer of young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through good works. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on the United States during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme: a teenage boy improves his circumstances by virtuous behavior. There is a "Horatio Alger myth" that the boy becomes wealthy through hard work, but this is inaccurate. In the actual stories, invariably the cause of success is an accident that works to the boy's advantage after he conducts himself according to traditional virtues such as honesty, charity, and altruism. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage." (from Wikipedia). Good .
Keywords: Young Adult Horatio Alger Jr. Sink Or Swim Series Rags To Riches Stories Youth Series
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42421
- Book number: 42421
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