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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.
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.
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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Several of Horatio Alger, Jr.'s boys' books were first published as serials in the magazine, in twelve installments from January to December, including the bestselling of his works, Ragged Dick (1867), as well as Fame and Fortune (1868), Rough and Ready (1869), Rufus and Rose (1870), Paul the Peddler (1871), and Slow and Sure (1872). [4]
Whether you have iconic vintage toys, Boy Scout memorabilia or complete sets of limited-edition comic books in excellent condition, you could be significantly underestimating how much items from ...
Horatio Alger: 200 million [40] 400 million [41] English Dime novels: 135 American Nora Roberts: 145 million [42] 400 million [43] English Romance 200+ American R. L. Stine: 100 million [44] 400 million [45] English Goosebumps series, Fear Street series, horror, comedy 430+ American Alexander Pushkin: 357 million [33] Russian Plays, poetry ...
Golden Days for Boys and Girls was a late 19th-century children's story paper, distributed weekly as an accompaniment to the paper Saturday Night.Running from March 6, 1880, to May 11, 1907, [1] Golden Days cost subscribers $3 a year.