wyszukanych pozycji: 828
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Do And Dare
ISBN: 9781542452724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual. By the time he died in 1899, Alger had published around a hundred volumes. Scholar John Geck observes that Alger's themes have been transformed in modern America from...
All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often i...
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Joe the Hotel Boy
ISBN: 9781421800448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their own way in the world. Among those already described are the ways of newsboys, match boys, peddlers, street musicians, and many others. In the present tale are related the adventures of a country lad who, after living for some time with a strange hermit, goes forth into the world and finds work, first in a summer hotel and then in a large hotel in the city. Joe finds his road no easy one to travel, and he has to face not a few hardships, but in...
A number of years ago the author of this story set out to depict life among the boys of a great city, and especially among those who had to make their...
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Tom, The Bootblack
ISBN: 9781982051679 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,30 |
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From Farm to Fortune; or, Nat Nason's Strange Experience
ISBN: 9781514608128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,29 |
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Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward: Annotated
ISBN: 9781611045932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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42,68 |
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Момчето от Поръчката: The Errand Boy, Bulg
ISBN: 9781034275756 / Bułgarski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,58 |
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Paul the Peddler, or the Fortunes of a Young Street Merchant
ISBN: 9789358595871 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Herbert Carter's Legacy, the Inventor's Son
ISBN: 9781483705125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Herbert Carter's Legacy is the eighth and concluding volume of the Luck and Pluck series. Those who have read all the stories attentively cannot fail to have discovered that there is one general idea pervading them all. The heroes have been differently situated, and have been led into different paths, but all have met life manfully, and overcome by pluck and patience the obstacles which they found in their way. Those who sit down, and wait passively for fortune to shower her gifts upon them, are likely to wait a long time. Horatio Alger, Jr. authored about seventy books. He was the son of a...
Herbert Carter's Legacy is the eighth and concluding volume of the Luck and Pluck series. Those who have read all the stories attentively cannot fail ...
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Walter Sherwood's Probation
ISBN: 9789358597011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,65 |
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Frank's Campaign, or the Farm and the Camp
ISBN: 9789358595987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
81,96 |
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Young Captain Jack the Son of a Soldier
ISBN: 9783847230786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
102,45 |
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Paul Prescott's Charge
ISBN: 9781421820897 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity. Squire Benjamin Newcome, as he was called, in the right of his position as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Selectmen, and wealthiest resident of Wrenville, was a man of rule and measure. He was measured in his walk, measured in his utterance, and measured in all his transactions. He might be called a dignified machine. He had a very exalted...
The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and loo...
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Slow And Sure
ISBN: 9781542902885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
53,57 |
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Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to Success
ISBN: 9781514670682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
30,30 |
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Cast Upon the Breakers
ISBN: 9781596056046 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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69,02 |
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Making His Way
ISBN: 9781421814568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two boys were walking in the campus of the Bridgeville Academy. They were apparently of about the same age - somewhere from fifteen to sixteen - but there was a considerable difference in their attire. Herbert Grant was neatly but coarsely dressed, and his shoes were of cowhide, but his face indicated a frank, sincere nature, and was expressive of intelligence. His companion was dressed in a suit of fine cloth, his linen was of the...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
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Adventures Of A Telegraph Boy
ISBN: 9781542473408 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his fate but rather some extraordinary act of bravery or honesty. The boy might return a large sum of lost money or rescue someone from an overturned carriage. This brings the boy-and his plight-to the attention of a wealthy individual. By the time he died in 1899, Alger had published around a hundred volumes. Scholar John Geck observes that Alger's themes have been transformed in modern America from...
All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often i...
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53,57 |
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Jack's Ward; Or, The Boy Guardian
ISBN: 9781514633595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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28,29 |
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Bound to Rise
ISBN: 9781421801414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Horatio Alger, Jr., an author who lived among and for boys and himself remained a boy in heart and association till death, was born at Revere, Mass., January 18, 1884. He was the son of a clergyman; was graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at its Divinity School in 1860; and was pastor of the Unitarian Church at Brewster, Mass., in 1862-66. In the latter year he settled in New York and began drawing public attention to the...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLi...
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Paul Prescott's Charge
ISBN: 9781983935107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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30,30 |