Hector's Inheritance

Name: Hector's Inheritance
Author: Horatio Alger

Auteur: Horatio Alger

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Horatio Alger Horatio Alger

Co-auteur: Alger Jr Horatio

Engels
Paperback
9781421818580
22 mei 2006
276 pagina's

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Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger, Jr. was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1832, the son of a Unitarian minister. He received a strict upbringing and was educated for a life in the church, graduating from Harvard in 1852.

After leaving Harvard, Alger, to his father's disappointment, took a job as a historian in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and later worked as a teacher at a boys' boarding school in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He traveled in Europe for a year, and then returned to the United States in 1857 to complete his studies at the Cambridge Divinity School.

In 1864 Alger was ordained a minister at the First Parish Unitarian Church of Brewster on Cape Cod. Sixteen months later, however, he was dismissed from the pulpit after being accused of engaging in homosexual relations with two boys. After his dismissal, Alger began to focus on his writing career, which spanned more than three decades and 110 books. He wrote mainly children's books about boys and girls who rise from rags to riches through hard work and faith in the American dream. His first major success came with the publication of his eighth novel, Ragged Dick in 1868. Other popular novels include Luck and Pluck (1869), Tattered Tom (1871), and Strive and Succeed (1872). Alger also wrote several adult novels, including A Fancy of Her's (first publihsed as The New Schoolma'am in 1877) and The Disagreeable Woman (1895).

Alger, who never married, spent the last decades of his life living at his family home in South Natick, Massachusetts, where he died in 1899.

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At the time he was saving his money, he regarded himself as the heir and future possessor of the estate, and had no expectation of ever needing it. It had been in his mind that it would give him an opportunity of helping, out of his private funds, any deserving poor person who might apply to him. When the unexpected revelation had been made to him that he had no claim to the estate, he was glad that he was not quite penniless.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 22 mei 2006
Aantal pagina's: 276
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Horatio Alger
Tweede Auteur: Horatio Alger
Co Auteur: Alger Jr Horatio
Hoofdredacteur: The Perfect Library
Tweede Redacteur: 1Stworld Library
Hoofduitgeverij: 1St World Library - Literary Society

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Originele titel: Hector's Inheritance (Large Print)

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Editie: New title
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 16 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 16 mm
Verpakking lengte: 216 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 354 g

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Taal: Engels
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