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  2. Horatio Alger - Wikipedia

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    Horatio Alger Jr. (/ ˈ æ l dʒ ər /; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American author who wrote young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to middle-class security and comfort through good works.

  3. List of works by Horatio Alger Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Horatio Alger Jr. published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875. In 1853–54, he published short stories with Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion and The Flag of Our Nation. Other Gleason publications printed about 100 stories before he began writing for The Student and Schoolmate. [1] Alger had many publishers over the decades.

  4. Ragged Dick - Wikipedia

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    Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in The Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring.

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  6. Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans

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    Over time, the Horatio Alger Association has expanded the program. Every year, the association awards more than 100 National scholarships to students from every U.S. state and Puerto Rico. Grants received by these National Scholars are valued at $25,000 each.

  7. Algerism - Wikipedia

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    Algerism may refer to: . Horatio Alger (1832–1899), an American writer of young adult novels characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative; Russell A. Alger (1836–1907), U.S. Secretary of War criticised for inadequate preparation and inefficient operation of the department during the Spanish–American War

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  9. American realism - Wikipedia

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    Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author whose principal output was formulaic rags-to-riches juvenile novels that followed 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.