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Showing posts with label Horatio Alger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horatio Alger. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2009

This Day in Literary History (Horatio Alger, Creator of Rags-to-Riches Fables, Dies)

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July 18, 1899—Nearly a decade after his enormously popular “ dime novels ” about boys who, to use one of his titles, “Strive and Succeed,” ...
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