By Horatio Alger Jr.
If you’ve ever used the word “rags to riches,” you owe that to Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899), who popularized the assumption via his fictional writings that still served as a topic for a way the US considered itself as a rustic. Alger’s works approximately negative boys emerging to higher residing stipulations via labor, decision, braveness, honesty, and morals was once well liked by either adults and more youthful readers.
Alger’s writings occurred to correspond with America’s Gilded Age, a time of accelerating prosperity in a kingdom rebuilding from the Civil struggle. His lifelong subject matter of rags to riches endured to realize attractiveness yet has progressively lessened because the Twenties. nonetheless, readers this day usually stumble upon Ragged Dick and tales love it in school.
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