Fiction · 1865
Paul Prescott’s Charge
Paul Prescott’s Charge, first published in 1865, 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
- Dedication
- Preface
- I — Squire Newcome
- II — Paul Prescott’s Home
- III — Paul’s Brilliant Prospects
- IV — Life in a New Phase
- V — A Crisis
- VI — Paul’s Determination
- VII — Paul Begins His Journey
- VIII — A Friend in Need
- IX — A Cloud in the Mudge Horizon
- X — Mr. Mudge Meets His Match
- XI — Wayside Gossip
- XII — On the Brink of Discovery
- XIII — Paul Reaches the City
- XIV — A Strange Bed-Chamber
- XV — A Turn of Fortune
- XVI — Young Stupid
- XVII — Ben’s Practical Joke
- XVIII — More About Ben
- XIX — Mrs. Mudge’s Discomfiture
- XX — Paul Obtains a Situation
- XXI — Smith and Thompson’s Young Man
- XXII — Mr. Benton’s Adventure
- XXIII — Paul Loses His Situation and Gains a Friend
- XXIV — Paul Calls on Mrs. Danforth
- XXV — An Old Acquaintance
- XXVI — A Vulgar Relation
- XXVII — Mr. Mudge’s Fright
- XXVIII — How Ben Got Home
- XXIX — Dawkins in Difficulties
- XXX — A Trap Is Laid for Paul
- XXXI — Convicted of Theft
- XXXII — Right Triumphant
- XXXIII — Paul Redeems His Pledge
- XXXIV — How Paul Goes Back to Wrenville
- XXXV — Conclusion
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About the author
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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