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Fiction · 1890

Driven from Home

Or, Carl Crawford’s Experience

Horatio Alger

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
52,178 words · 202 pages
Structure
40 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Driven from Home, first published in 1890, 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 — Driven from Home
  2. Chapter II — A Friend Worth Having
  3. Chapter III — Introduces Peter Cook
  4. Chapter IV — An Important Conference
  5. Chapter V — Carl’s Stepmother
  6. Chapter VI — Mrs. Crawford’s Letter
  7. Chapter VII — Ends in a Tragedy
  8. Chapter VIII — Carl Falls Under Suspicion
  9. Chapter IX — A Plausible Stranger
  10. Chapter X — The Counterfeit Bill
  11. Chapter XI — The Archery Prize
  12. Chapter XII — An Odd Acquaintance
  13. Chapter XIII — An Unequal Contest
  14. Chapter XIV — Carl Arrives in Milford
  15. Chapter XV — Mr. Jennings at Home
  16. Chapter XVI — Carl Gets a Place
  17. Chapter XVII — Carl Enters the Factory
  18. Chapter XVIII — Leonard’s Temptation
  19. Chapter XIX — An Artful Scheme
  20. Chapter XX — Reveals a Mystery
  21. Chapter XXI — An Unwelcome Guest
  22. Chapter XXII — Mr. Stark Is Recognized
  23. Chapter XXIII — Preparing for the Burglar
  24. Chapter XXIV — The Burglary
  25. Chapter XXV — Stark’s Disappointment
  26. Chapter XXVI — A Disagreeable Surprise
  27. Chapter XXVII — Brought to Bay
  28. Chapter XXVIII — After a Year
  29. Chapter XXIX — The Lost Bank Book
  30. Chapter XXX — An Eccentric Woman
  31. Chapter XXXI — Carl Takes Supper with Miss Norris
  32. Chapter XXXII — A Startling Discovery
  33. Chapter XXXIII — From Albany to Niagara
  34. Chapter XXXIV — Carl Makes the Acquaintance of an English Lord
  35. Chapter XXXV — What Carl Learned in Chicago
  36. Chapter XXXVI — Making a Will
  37. Chapter XXXVII — Peter Lets Out a Secret
  38. Chapter XXXVIII — Dr. Crawford Is Taken to Task
  39. Chapter XXXIX — A Man of Energy
  40. Chapter XL — 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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