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Fiction · 1906

Joe the Hotel Boy

Or, Winning Out by Pluck

Horatio Alger

Reading time
about 3 h
Length
44,145 words · 172 pages
Structure
29 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Joe the Hotel Boy, first published in 1906, 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. Note
  2. Chapter I — Out in a Storm
  3. Chapter II — A Mysterious Conversation
  4. Chapter III — A Home in Ruins
  5. Chapter IV — The Search for the Blue Box
  6. Chapter V — A New Suit of Clothes
  7. Chapter VI — An Accident on the Lake
  8. Chapter VII — Blows and Kind Deeds
  9. Chapter VIII — The Timid Mr. Gussing
  10. Chapter IX — An Unfortunate Outing
  11. Chapter X — David Ball from Montana
  12. Chapter XI — A Fruitless Chase
  13. The Particulars of a Swindle
  14. Chapter XIII — Off for the City
  15. Chapter XIV — A Scene on the Train
  16. Chapter XV — What Happened to Josiah Bean
  17. Chapter XVI — A Matter of Six Hundred Dollars
  18. Chapter XVII — Joe’s New Position
  19. Chapter XVIII — Joe Shows His Muscle
  20. Chapter XIX — One Kind of a Duel
  21. Chapter XX — Attacked in the Dark
  22. Chapter XXI — Days at the Hotel
  23. Chapter XXII — About Some Mining Shares
  24. Chapter XXIII — The Fire at the Hotel
  25. Chapter XXIV — The Blue Box at Last
  26. Chapter XXV — Joe Visits Chicago
  27. Chapter XXVI — How a Satchel Disappeared
  28. Chapter XXVII — Joe Makes a Discovery
  29. Chapter XXVIII — From Out of a Tree
  30. Chapter XXIX — The Fate of Two Evildoers
  31. Conclusion

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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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