Horatio: 498 books

First published in 1873 by A. L. Burt Company, Bound to Rise tells the story of Harry Walton, the son of a farmer who is experiencing rough financial times. Using Benjamin Franklin as a model, Henry sets out to save his family's farm from a dishonorable man's loan of exorbitant interest rate through...

Published in 1884, this is the story of the struggles of a young boy in the late-19th century, when most young people had to make their living through hard work, without any family support or any other external help. Left penniless after his inheritance is lost by his guardian, sixteen-year-old...

Philip Gray's father has died, destitute, and Squire Pope, who, of course, owns his home, throws Philip out with nothing except a stock certificate for 100 shares in a California gold mine, a note for a large sum of money which is probably useless, his father's gold watch, and his violin. Philip encounters...

John Linden is a very wealthy man. The people who should inherit his property are his nephew, Curtis Waring, his niece Florence Linden, and his long lost son – if alive. John thinks it would be best if Florence and Curtis were married, and makes it a requirement if Florence wishes to have any of...

Adrift in the City follows the adventures of Oliver Conrad, who, at fifteen, lives in a country mansion with his stepfather, stepbrother and mother. Oliver’s stepfather secretly commits his mother to a madhouse to steal her estate and pretends she has died. To get Oliver out of the picture, his...

All of Horatio Algers books are so easy to read but they are also very entertaining, in this particular book a boy named Robert struggles as he has trying to survive and succeed in a very hard world, we sometimes forget how hard it is to be poor and have to struggle to even feed ourselves in a world...

"The story of a very good boy who is the victim of a wicked stepmother. He is driven from home and is always brave, and by the exercise of these virtues he becomes great and prosperous, and finally recovers the property his enemy has for a time kept from him. The story starts in New England,...

This 1875 novel is the eighth and last in Alger's "Luck and Pluck" series. Here, Herbert Carter works hard to help his mother, the widow of an inventor, make ends meet, but the ruthless man who holds their mortgage on their house and his snobbish son want to oust the pair, and are close...

Having been stranded on and rescued from a deserted island due to a shipwreck, Harry Vane and Jack Pendleton, decide to stay in Australia, even though Harry's employer, Professor Hemmenway, has decided to return to America. Harry and Jack decide to try their hand at gold mining, and they're...

In publishing "Ben, the Luggage Boy," Alger said that it is in all essential points a true history, the particulars of the story having been communicated to him by Ben himself. In particular, the circumstances surrounding the boy's running away from home and adopting the life of a street...

Bernard Brooks, a fifteen-year-old orphan, is sent to Ezekiel Snowdon's rural boarding school by his New York guardian, Cornelius McCracken, who has secretly appropriated $10,000 belonging to Bernard. Bernard runs away from the school to avoid undeserved beatings. He meets many characters along...

According to Wikipedia: "Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was formulaic juvenile novels that followed the adventures of bootblacks, newsboys, peddlers, buskers, and other impoverished children in their rise from humble...

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage,...

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys...