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is the eighth and last in Alger's "Luck and Pluck" series, Here, Herbert Carter works hard to help his mother, the widow of an inventor, make ends meet, but the ruthless man who holds their mortgage on their house and his snobbish son want to oust the pair, and are close to doing it.
Herbert tries farming, selling newspapers, and other jobs, but finds that nothing is ever easy,

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Horatio Alger, Jr, January,July,was a prolificthcentury American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middleclass security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.
His writings were characterized by the "ragstoriches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age,

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Horatio Alger, Jr. January,July,was a prolificth 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, took a position at a Unitarian church in Brewster Horatio Alger, Jr, January,July,was a prolificth 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, 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. The first full length Alger biography was commissioned inand published in, and along with many others that borrowed from it later proved to be heavily fictionalized parodies perpetuating hoaxes and made up anecdotes that "would resemble the tell all scandal biographies of the time.
"Other biographies followed, sometimes citing thehoax as fact, In the last decades of the twentieth century a few reliable biographies were published that attempt to correct the errors and fictionalizations of the past, sitelink.