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Fiction · 1864

Frank’s Campaign

Or, The Farm and the Camp

Horatio Alger

Reading time
about 4.5 h
Length
61,216 words · 148 pages
Structure
33 chapters
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Frank’s Campaign, first published in 1864, 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 — The War Meeting
  2. Chapter II — The Prize
  3. Chapter III — Frank at Home
  4. Chapter IV — Frank Makes a Proposition
  5. Chapter V — Mr. Rathburn Makes a Speech
  6. Chapter VI — Mr. Frost Makes Up His Mind
  7. Chapter VII — Like Father, Like Son
  8. Chapter VIII — Discouraged and Encouraged
  9. Chapter IX — The Last Evening at Home
  10. Chapter X — Little Pomp
  11. Chapter XI — Punishing a Bully
  12. Chapter XII — A Letter from the Camp
  13. Chapter XIII — Mischief on Foot
  14. Chapter XIV — A Raid Upon the Pig-Pen
  15. Chapter XV — Pomp Behaves Badly
  16. Chapter XVI — Frank Makes a Friend
  17. Chapter XVII — A Shade of Mystery
  18. Chapter XVIII — Thanksgiving at the Farm
  19. Chapter XIX — The Wonderful Transformation
  20. Chapter XX — Pomp’s Education Commences
  21. Chapter XXI — The Battle of Fredericksburg
  22. Chapter XXII — Frank Broaches a New Plan
  23. Chapter XXIII — Pomp Takes Mrs. Payson Prisoner
  24. Chapter XXIV — A Chapter from Hardee
  25. Chapter XXV — Election of Officers
  26. Chapter XXVI — The Rebel Trap
  27. Chapter XXVII — Pomp’s Light Infantry Tactics
  28. Chapter XXVIII — John Haynes Has a Narrow Escape
  29. Chapter XXIX — Mr. Morton’s Story
  30. Chapter XXX — Frank Calls on Squire Haynes
  31. Chapter XXXI — Squire Haynes Springs His Trap
  32. Chapter XXXII — Turning the Tables
  33. Chapter XXXIII — 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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