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  • 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol - 4 (2026 Edition)

    by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, Grant Allen, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, R. Austin Freeman, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Henry Rider Haggard, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Jules Verne, Arthur Dudley Vinton, H.G. Wells, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Grant Allen, Lucius Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum, Dale Carnegie, Margaret Cavendish, G.K Chesterton, Frances Hodgson Burnett, H. G. Wells, John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry Rider Haggard, Victor Hugo, Rudyard Kipling, Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Her Majesty's Servants, How Fear Came, Red Dog, D.H. Lawrence, Jack London, Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, H.P. Lovecraft, Niccolò Machiavelli, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Vatsyayana, Jules Verne, Edgar Wallace, Lew Wallace, Virginia Woolf, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Louisa May Alcott, Horatio Alger Jr, David Belasco, Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Susan Coolidge, Benjamin Disraeli, R. Austin Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Gissing, Hollis Godfrey, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Pieter Harting, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, David Hume, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, William Le Queux, George Moore, Arthur Morrison, Henri Murger, William Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank R. Stockton, Gene Stratton-Porter, Anthony Trollope, Ivan Turgenev, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Fred Merrick White, Oscar Wilde, Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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  • Ragged Dick (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

    by Horatio Alger Jr., Winter Fernwick ...
    Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is Horatio Alger Jr.'s seminal 1868 novel of urban self-making. Following the witty, impoverished bootblack Dick Hunter, the book combines brisk adventure, sentimental realism, and moral instruction to depict post–Civil War New York's streets, lodging houses, and precarious economies. Its plain, energetic prose and episodic structure ... Read more

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  • The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK®: 70 Classic Works

    by Horatio Alger ...
    The Horatio Alger MEGAPACK® presents 70 Classic Works by the great 19th century author. Here are:ADVENTURES OF A TELEGRAPH BOYDIGGING FOR GOLDMARK THE MATCH BOYBOB BURTONANDY GORDONTHE BACKWOODS BOYA BOY'S FORTUNEA DEBT OF HONORBERNARD BROOKS' ADVENTURESWAIT AND HOPEMARK MASON'S VICTORYROBERT COVERDALE'S STRUGGLEBEN, THE LUGGAGE BOYRUFUS AND ROSETHE YOUNG ADVENTURERTHE YOUNG MIN... ... Read more

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  • Tom Thatcher's Fortune

    by Jr. Horatio Alger ...
    In Tom Thatcher's Fortune, the story follows the life of Tom Thatcher, a young and hardworking boy who faces various challenges and hardships. Tom starts from modest beginnings and, through his determination and moral character, manages to improve his circumstances.The plot involves Tom’s journey as he encounters opportunities and obstacles along the way. His resilience, honesty, and diligent ... Read more

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  • Horatio Alger Jr: The Complete Works

    by Horatio Alger Jr ...
    51 Complete Works of Horatio Alger JrAdrift in New YorkAndy Grant's PluckBen, the Luggage BoyBens NuggetBound to RiseBrave and BoldCast Upon the BreakersDo and DareFacing the WorldFame and FortuneFrank and FearlessFrank's CampaignFrom Canal Boy to PresidentFrom Farm to FortuneHector's InheritanceHelping HimselfHerbert Carter's LegacyIn A New WorldJack's Ward... ... Read more

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  • Adrift in the City

    or, Oliver Conrad's Plucky Fight

    by Horatio Alger Jr. ...
    A boy thrown on New York by a stepfather's greed finds work, is cheated of it, and works his way back with the help of people who have nothing to spare. Alger wrote the same book many times and this is a fair specimen of the pattern. What is worth keeping is the accounting of a poor boy's week in the city of 1895. Fifty-eight plates of New York streets and night skies by John Sloan and Winslow ... Read more

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  • Ragged Dick

    or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

    by Horatio Alger Jr. ...
    A New York bootblack who sleeps in a box on Spruce Street is given a start by a stranger, opens a savings account, learns to read and write, and moves from rags to a clerk's collar. Alger wrote over a hundred of these and this was the one that made the pattern; the phrase "Horatio Alger story" comes from here. What is easy to forget is how exactly he reports the city — the lodging houses, the ... Read more

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  • Making His Way

    or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward

    by Horatio Alger Jr. ...
    A boy whose stepfather has stolen his inheritance leaves the village for New York, takes a clerk's place, and works his way back to the proof he needs. Alger published dozens of these and the machinery is always the same; the interest is in what he reports along the way — wages, lodgings, fares, and the exact price of respectability. The villain is a swindler rather than a brute, which was Alger's ... Read more

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  • Fame and Fortune; or, The Progress of Richard Hunter

    by Horatio Alger, Jr. ...
    Fame and Fortune is the sequel to the adventure book Ragged Dick. ... Read more

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  • Selected Works of Horatio Alger

    by Horatio Alger ...
    The Hamilton Academy, under the charge of Rev. Dr. Euclid, stands on an eminence about ten rods back from the street, in the town of the same name. It is a two-story building, surmounted by a cupola, or belfry, and, being neatly painted brown and well cared for, is, on the whole, an ornament to the village. It was a quarter of nine, when a boy of sixteen, rather showily dressed, ascended the ... Read more

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  • 100 Eternal Masterpieces of Literature - volume 2

    by Oscar Wilde, Jonathan Swift, Robert Louis Stevenson, Upton Sinclair, Walter Scott, William Somerset Maugham, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Jack London, Rabindranath Tagore, Stendhal0, Mark Twain1, Mark Twain2, James Joyce3, H. G. Wells4, Jules Verne5, Leo Tolstoy6, Bram Stoker7, Edgar Allan Poe8, Herman Melville9, Marcel Proust0, H. P. Lovecraft1, Thomas Mann2, D. H. Lawrence3, Rudyard Kipling4, Grant Allen5, Lucius Apuleius6, Marcus Aurelius7, Jane Austen8, L. Frank Baum9, Dale Carnegie0, Margaret Cavendish1, G.K. Chesterton2, John Cleland3, Wilkie Collins4, Daniel Defoe5, Charles Dickens6, Arthur Conan Doyle7, Alexandre Dumas8, Victor Hugo9, Vatsyayana0, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa1, Horatio Alger Jr2, Susan Coolidge3, Benjamin Disraeli4, Elizabeth Gaskell5, George Gissing6, Hollis Godfrey7, Nikolai Gogol8, Maxim Gorky9, Henry Rider Haggard0, Pieter Harting1, O. Henry2, Arthur Morrison3 ...
    This 2nd volume of contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors' last names:Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a BoatJoyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJoyce, James: UlyssesKingsley, Charles: The Water-BabiesKipling, Rudyard: KimLa Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of ClèvesLaclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous LiaisonsLawrence, D. H.: Sons and LoversLawrence, ... Read more

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