 In describing Harry's rise from the ranks I have studiously avoided the extraordinary incidents and pieces of good luck, which the story writer has always at command, being desirous of presenting my hero's career as one which may be imitated by the thousands...  Risen from the Ranks, Or, Harry Walton's Successde Horatio Alger - 1874 - 349 páginasVer trechos - Sobre este livro
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...Walton's Success (1874; New York: Media Press, 1972), p. 197. In his preface to that tale, Alger wrote: "In describing Harry's rise from the ranks, I have...who, like him, are anxious to rise from the ranks." In Ragged Dick, he tacked a heroic rescue on the end of his otherwise sober counsel. 30. Alger, "How... | |
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