Author : Horatio Jr. Alger
Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis The Tin Box by : Horatio Jr. Alger
Download or read book The Tin Box written by Horatio Jr. Alger. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty, starting with Ragged Dick in 1868. [Critics point out that hard work itself does not rescue the boy from his fate, but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty, which brings him into contact with a wealthy benefactor.] In the last decades of the 19th century, Alger's moral tone coarsened, and violence, murder, and other sensational themes entered his works.