Books with title Bound to Rise

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 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. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Bound to Rise centers around a fourteen-year-old boy named Harry who leaves home in search of work. He is determined to pay a debt his father was forced to incur. By hard work and perseverance, as well as his motto "Live and Learn", Harry overcomes challenges to meet his goal and returns victorious.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 18, 1884. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., in 1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New York and began drawing public attention to the condition and needs of street boys. He mingled with them, gained their confidence, showed a personal concern in their affairs, and stimulated them to honest and useful living. With his first story he won the hearts of all red-blooded boys every-where, and of the seventy or more that followed over a million copies were sold during the author's lifetime.

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 18, 1884. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., in 1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New York and began drawing public attention to the condition and needs of street boys. He mingled with them, gained their confidence, showed a personal concern in their affairs, and stimulated them to honest and useful living. With his first story he won the hearts of all red-blooded boys every-where, and of the seventy or more that followed over a million copies were sold during the author's lifetime.

Bound to Rise by Horatio Alger The hero, Henry Walton, is the oldest of six children, and is described as a "broad-shouldered, sturdy boy, with a frank, open face, resolute, though good-natured" (12). Regarding his education, the narrator allows that "though a tolerably good scholar, [Henry Walton] was deficient in many respects, on account of the limited nature of his opportunities" (17). Although he lives with both his parents at the start of this tale, they are a very poor family, and their only cow is near death. Hiram Walton, Henry's father, is revealed to be responsible in part for the family's lack of success and security; he is "one of those men who, for some unaccountable reason, never get on in the world...do not have the knack of conquering fortune" (12). When the family's cow dies, Hiram goes to borrow money from miser Squire Green to buy a new one. Green takes advantage of his borrower's need and charges an extravagant rate of interest. Meanwhile, at the local school, Henry performs admirably at his exams. He wins a book, a biography of Benjamin Franklin. Inspired by the tale, he decides to leave town to earn money to pay for the cow. From northern New Hampshire, he sets out to the south. Eventually he comes to a slightly larger town and gets a job replacing a young man named Bob Leavitt, who is leaving his father's shoe-making business to work in his uncle's dry goods store in Boston. In the shoe shop, he works with spendthrift Luke Harrison, who calls Henry Walton a miser for refusing to play billiards. Henry Walton goes to the library instead. As winter nears, Henry regrets that he cannot afford an overcoat. He explains his situation, when pressed, to a gentleman named Maurice Tudor. Impressed by his honorable motivations, Maurice gives him an old overcoat he owns, as well as two suits of very fine quality. Henry's one major investment is to pay tuition to study with other children in evening school under Leonard Morgan, a twenty-two-year-old Dartmouth student. Henry performs admirably, taking to Latin astonishingly well. The first major conflict of the novel occurs when Henry, refusing an offer to go on a sleigh ride with Luke and some other young people, drops his pocket book. Luke picks it up. The loss of all his money throws Henry into despair, until he begins to suspect Luke of stealing it. Aided by Mr. Leavitt and the tailor, Henry traps Luke in his own lies; he recovers some of his money. Although Luke agrees to pay the rest, he claims he lost it, and begins to save his wages to run away. He does, and Henry is thus farther away from his goal than he had been before away from his goal. To worsen matters, the shoe-market is glutted, and Henry cannot work. He begins to fear for his family. Luckily, Henry is taken in by a patron, a traveling magician, named Professor Henderson. He is employed to work as a ticket boy for very high wages. The opportunity to travel also affords Henry to broaden his ambition. In one town, Centreville, the Professor sends Henry to get bills printed for the next evening's show. While at the newspaper, Henry is offered a job (and an opportunity to emulate his hero Benjamin Franklin. It is a step down in pay, but he looks ahead to consider what the eventual gains may be.(University of Rochester Library)

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