Struggling upward / by Horatio Alger Jr
| dc.contributor | Internet Wiretap |
| dc.contributor.author | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:59:53Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:59:53Z |
| dc.date.created | 1890 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-09-13 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1926 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1926 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1926 |
| dc.description.abstract | Bibliography: p. [xxii] First published in the United States by A.K. Loring, 1868 Series editor: John Seelye Note on source for this edition (p. xxiii): Because of cheap paper and cheap binding, copies of the original editions ... that can be reproduced today without damage are practically impossible to secure. Moved by that fact ... the publishers of the present volume have availed themselves of permission to reprint the texts used in Struggling upward and other works by Horatio Alger, Jr., which was issued by Crown in 1945 with an introduction by Russel Crouse |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 280 KB) |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Novels -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | Struggling upward / by Horatio Alger Jr |
| dc.type | Text |
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| files.size | 293235 |
| files.count | 2 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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STRUGGLING UPWARD by HORATIO ALGER JR.
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From the book "Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward", published
by Penguin Books, 1985. Ragged Dick was first published in the
United States by A.K. Loring, 1868. The Introduction written
by Carl Bode is not included in this etext, and is (c)1985 by
Viking Penguin, Inc., all rights reserved. The text itself
is not copyright, and this etext is public domain.
STRUGGLING UPWARD
CHAPTER I
THE WATERBURY WATCH
One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated
group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond
in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall,
pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the
Center Grammar School, Frederic Hooper, A.B., a recent graduate
of Yale College. Evidently there was something of importanc . . .