Paul the Peddler

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Cosimo

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491_9781596057463

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Now, mother, I hope supper is most ready, for selling neckties has made me hungry.Almost ready, Paul.It was a humble meal, but a good one. There were fresh rolls and butter, tea and some cold meat. That was all; but the cloth was clean, and everything looked neat. All did justice to the plain meal, and never thought of envying the thousands who, in their rich uptown mansions, were sitting down at the same hour to elaborate dinners costing more than their entire weeks board.-from Chapter VIII: A Stroke of LuckIts entirely possibly that the 20th-century concept of the American dream would not exist without the cheerfully idealistic novels of Horatio Alger, Jr. Enormous bestsellers in their day, Algers rags-to-riches tales nurtured the nations faltering idealism during the economic inequities of the Gilded Age. Paul the Peddler, from 1871, follows the typical Alger format: Paul Hoffman is a poor but industrious 14-year-old who ekes out a living for himself and his mother hawking whatever he can on the desperate streets of New York City... until his hard work and integrity pay of in wealth and comfort. This is a charming work, its hard-bitten romance tempered by its celebration of virtue and strength of character.American writer HORATIO ALGER, JR. (1832-1899) wrote well over 100 novels, among them Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York (1867), Sink or Swim (1870), and Tattered Tom; or, The Story of a Street Arab (1871).

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