Do and Dare: Or a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

by Horatio Alger Jr

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A quick easy read. Interesting look at the rags to riches story Horatio Alger was known for. Herbert Carr , the protagonist of the story, is a great role model of "sweat equity." He is honest, loyal, and hardworking boy and eventually gets rewarded for his efforts by a wealthy kind friend who is equally admirable.

Note: 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 the wealthy benefactor.

A very productive author, Horatio Alger Jr. wrote more than a hundred books on the same theme: that honesty, cheerfulness, virtue, thrift, and hard work would be rewarded with success. He can be credited with helping to create a unique American philosophy of "Strive and Succeed."

Work hard. Live honestly. Be fair. Success will follow.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781539114420
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/27/2016
Series:	Great Classics , #51
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, most famous for his novels following 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. His novels about boys who succeed under the tutelage of older mentors were hugely popular in their day.




Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the son of a Unitarian minister, Alger entered Harvard University at the age of sixteen. Following graduation, he briefly worked in education before touring Europe for almost a year. He then entered the Harvard Divinity School, and, in 1864, took a position at a Unitarian church in Brewster, Massachusetts.




Two years later, he resigned following allegations he had sexual relations with two teenage boys. He retired from the ministry and moved to New York City where he formed an association with the Newsboys Lodging House and other agencies offering aid to impoverished children. His sympathy for the working boys of the city, coupled with the moral values learned at home, were the basis of his many juvenile rags to riches novels illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American Dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others.




This widely held view involves Alger's characters achieving extreme wealth and the subsequent remediation of their "old ghosts." Alger is noted as a significant figure in the history of American cultural and social ideals. He died in 1899.