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Tony the Tramp; Or, Right is Might

Chapter 77: The Famous Alger Stories for Boys
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About This Book

A youth named Tony travels with an older vagrant, enduring hardship while longing for a stable home and honest work. After encounters with townspeople and a schoolboy's example he resolves to escape the tramp life but faces pressure from his companion to participate in theft. The narrative follows his moral struggles, small acts of courage and industry, and the obstacles he must overcome to gain self-respect and improved circumstances. Themes include perseverance, the value of honest labor, personal reform, and the social mobility attainable through character and determination.

The Famous Alger Stories for Boys


Give your boy all he wants of the Alger Books. They are always unusually interesting, and in a quiet way convey lessons of pluck, perseverance, and manly independence.

THIS IS ONE VOLUME OF THE SERIES

The following books are ready for delivery:

  •  1. Strong and Steady
  •  2. Strive and Succeed
  •  3. Try and Trust
  •  4. Bound to Rise
  •  5. Risen From the Ranks
  •  6. Herbert Carter’s Legacy
  •  7. Brave and Bold
  •  8. Jack’s Ward
  •  9. Shifting for Himself
  • 10. Wait and Hope
  • 11. Paul the Peddler
  • 12. Phil the Fiddler
  • 13. Slow and Sure
  • 14. Julius the Street Boy
  • 15. Tom the Bootblack
  • 16. Struggling Upward
  • 17. Facing the World
  • 18. The Cash Boy
  • 19. Making His Way
  • 20. Tony the Tramp
  • 21. Joe’s Luck
  • 22. Do and Dare
  • 23. Only an Irish Boy
  • 24. Sink or Swim

The Alger Books have held the foremost place in juvenile fiction for forty years, and they are read to-day with the same avidity as they were a generation ago—and they will continue to be read with equal interest so long as boys are boys.

There are several editions of these stories, but none of them are equal to this new edition from new plates for general excellence, at the lowest price for which a well-made cloth bound book has ever been offered by any publisher.


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