Sink or Swim

Harry Raymond's Resolve

By: Horatio Alger Jr.

Narrated by: Christopher Crennen

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) wrote over 100 ‘rags-to-riches’ novels, often about teenage boys forced by circumstances to earn their own living selling newspapers, blacking boots, carrying luggage, or tending store.

Alger’s heroes are honest, temperate, generous, and brave, good in a fight and ready to protect a weaker boy from a bully. Alger stresses work, study, and thrift as ways to escape poverty. Alger’s villains, on the other hand, are usually dishonest, sometimes alcoholic or brutal.

Alger’s stories are thrilling, often with cliff-hanger chapter endings. Alger’s books have sold hundred of millions of copies, making him one of the best-selling authors in U.S. and world history.

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Public Domain (P)2024 Christopher Crennen

Sink or Swim by Horatio Alger, Jt.

Very entertaining plot. How it was to end was no surprise, but the adventures getting there were surprising.
I love the language. it is so proper, from the 1800s. The narrator was so easy to understand, and this book was filled with words I knew, but rarely or never heard them used in conversation.
This was a typical Horatio Alger, Jr. novel, but what a pleasure to read a book where doing the right thing works out! Of course these books were from my Great Grandparents time, but never disappoint.