The Backwoods Boy by Horatio Alger Jr.

The Backwoods Boy

Horatio Alger Jr.

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His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth": a teenage boy wor...

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