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Fiction · 1893

Cast upon the Breakers

Horatio Alger

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
55,837 words · 154 pages
Structure
36 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Cast upon the Breakers, first published in 1893, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Chapter I — A Faithless Guardian
  2. Chapter II — The Casket of Jewels
  3. Chapter III — A Strange Disappearance
  4. Chapter IV
  5. Chapter V — A Young Financial Wreck
  6. Chapter VI — An Impudent Adventurer
  7. Chapter VII — At the Newsboy’s Lodging House
  8. Chapter VIII — Rodney Finds a Place
  9. Chapter IX — The First Day at Work
  10. Chapter X — Mike Puts on a Uniform
  11. Chapter XI — Missing Goods
  12. Chapter XII — What Was Found in Rodney’s Room
  13. Chapter XIII — Charged with Theft
  14. Chapter XIV — Rodney Is Discharged
  15. Chapter XV — A Rich Find
  16. Chapter XVI — A Surprising Turn of Fortune
  17. Chapter XVII
  18. Chapter XVIII — Rodney’s Secret Is Discovered
  19. Chapter XIX — Jasper’s Revenge
  20. Chapter XX — Rodney Loses His Pupil
  21. Chapter XXI — Continued Ill Luck
  22. Chapter XXII — An Old Acquaintance Turns Up
  23. Chapter XXIII — Mr. Wheeler Has a Set Back
  24. Chapter XXIV — A Change of Scene
  25. Chapter XXV — Jefferson Pettigrew’s Home
  26. Chapter XXVI — The Boy Capitalist
  27. Chapter XXVII — The Failure of Squire Sheldon’s Plot
  28. Chapter XXVIII — A Minister’s Good Fortune
  29. Chapter XXIX
  30. Chapter XXX — The Mysterious Robbery
  31. Chapter XXXI — Mr. Wheeler Explains
  32. Chapter XXXII — Rodney Falls Into a Trap
  33. Chapter XXXIII
  34. Chapter XXXIV — Rodney’s Discovery
  35. Chapter XXXV
  36. Chapter XXXVI
  37. Conclusion

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About the author

Horatio Alger

1832–1899 · Victorian

Horatio Alger Jr. (1832–1899) was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, graduated from Harvard in 1852, and was ordained a Unitarian minister, serving a congregation in Brewster, Massachusetts, until 1866, when he was dismissed after a church investigation found he had sexually abused boys in the parish. He moved to New York City, where he volunteered with the Newsboys' Lodging House and turned to writing juvenile fiction full-time; Ragged Dick (1868) established the rags-to-riches formula — a poor boy's rise through pluck, hard work and a timely stroke of luck — that he repeated across more than a hundred subsequent novels for boys, Phil, the Fiddler (1872) among them.

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