Fiction · 1871
Paul the Peddler
Or, The Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
Paul the Peddler, first published in 1871, 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
- Biography and Bibliography
- Chapter I — Paul the Peddler
- Chapter II — Paul at Home
- Chapter III — Paul Has Competitors
- Chapter IV — Teddy Gives Up Business
- Chapter V — Paul Loses His Basket
- Chapter VI — Paul as an Artist
- Chapter VII — A New Business
- Chapter VIII — A Stroke of Ill Luck
- Chapter IX — A New Patron
- Chapter X — Another Loss
- Chapter XI — Barclay & Co
- Chapter XII — The Barrel Thief
- Chapter XIII — Out of Business
- Chapter XIV — The Diamond Ring
- Chapter XV — The Pawnbroker’s Shop
- Chapter XVI — The Jeweler’s Price
- Chapter XVII — Mr. Felix Montgomery
- Chapter XVIII — A Clever Thief
- Chapter XIX — Paul Deliberates
- Chapter XX — The Thief in Disguise
- Chapter XXI — Paul Is Checkmated
- Chapter XXII — A Man of Resources
- Chapter XXIII — A New Expedient
- Chapter XXIV — Mr. Montgomery’s Arrest
- Chapter XXV — Paul’s Final Success
- Chapter XXVI — Conclusion
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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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