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Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

1884

Horatio Alger Jr.

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Do and Dare — a Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune

Horatio Alger Jr.

1884

Adventure, American Literature, Children & Young Adult Reading, Novels

In a small American town, a widow and her son face the brutal mathematics of poverty. When Herbert Carr watches his mother lose her postmaster's position to a scheming rival, he discovers that justice and wealth rarely share a bed. Rather than accept defeat, the boy fights back against local corruption and a false accusation of theft that threatens to destroy everything he has left. Alger's 1884 classic pulses with the raw ambition of a young nation still believing that pluck and virtue can overcome any obstacle. This is the story that built the American Dream, one boy's determined fight at a time. It endures not because its happy endings are subtle, but because it captures something true about the hunger to prove the powerful wrong.

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