Word: algerism
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This year his drug and cosmetic business should gross $24 million. Next year he expects to see it hit $36 million. But he yawns like an idle lily at the idea that his record is a rags-to-riches one. Says he: "The Alger story is a bore...
...Street & Smith, Nick Carter (in real life, Colonel Frederick Van Rensselaer Dey) pounded out a novel (30,000 words) a week. Burt L. Standish (William Gilbert Patten) manufactured 30,000 words a month about Frank Merriwell. Other S. & S. standards: Oliver Optic (William T. Adams), Horatio Alger...
Deadeye Dick might not recognize the old place but Horatio Alger would appreciate the results...
Ragged Dick, the second of the four novels now reprinted, was the first of Alger's books (1868) to reach a wide public. It is a moral but lively story dealing with the rise to respectability of a homeless bootblack...
Phil, the Fiddler is a memorial to a successful crusade that Alger led against the padrone system, by which hundreds of little street musicians, brought to Manhattan from Italy, were kept as virtual slaves. The story deals with one boy who escaped and was adopted by a rich doctor...