• 导读
  • At this moment there was a sharp rap on the table, and a voice was heard, saying, "The meeting will please come to order."

    The buzz of voices died away; and all eyes were turned toward the speaker's stand.

  • 内容简介
  • 1864年出版,是一部少年小说。弗兰克的父亲去参战,于是留下弗兰克来打理家里的农场,尽管农场的工作谁都能做,但是能做好却不容易,弗兰克在管理农场发面发挥了巨大的作用。本书是作者关于男孩故事的第一本书。

    The Town Hall in Rossville stands on a moderate elevation overlooking the principal street. It is generally open only when a meeting has been called by the Selectmen to transact town business, or occasionally in the evening when a lecture on temperance or a political address is to be delivered. Rossville is not large enough to sustain a course of lyceum lectures, and the townspeople are obliged to depend for intellectual nutriment upon such chance occasions as these. The majority of the inhabitants being engaged in agricultural pursuits, the population is somewhat scattered, and the houses, with the exception of a few grouped around the stores, stand at respectable distances, each encamped on a farm of its own.

  • 作者简介
  • 小霍雷肖•阿尔杰(Horatio Alger Jr.,1832年-1899年),美国儿童小说作家。作品有130部左右,大都是讲穷孩子如何通过勤奋和诚实获得财富和社会成功。

    Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-99) was a prolific writer of dime novel stories for boys. From the debut of his first novel, Ragged Dick, in 1867, Alger was instrumental in establishing a new genre of dime novels known as the 'city story.' The genre arose out of the wide-spread urbanization that followed the Civil War and paralleled the rise of industrialism. Alger's stories heroicized the young street urchins living in poverty among large, urban centers such as New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. With uncommon courage and moral fortitude, Alger's youths struggle against adversity to achieve great wealth and acclaim. These rags to riches stories were enormously popular with the public and flourished in the decades from 1870 to 1890.

  • 目录
    • CHAPTER I. THE WAR MEETING
    • CHAPTER II. THE PRIZE
    • CHAPTER III. FRANK AT HOME
    • CHAPTER IV. FRANK MAKES A PROPOSITION
    • CHAPTER V. MR. RATHBURN MAKES A SPEECH
    • CHAPTER VI. MR. FROST MAKES UP HIS MIND
    • CHAPTER VII. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON
    • CHAPTER VIII. DISCOURAGED AND ENCOURAGED
    • CHAPTER IX. THE LAST EVENING AT HOME
    • CHAPTER X. LITTLE POMP
    • CHAPTER XI. PUNISHING A BULLY
    • CHAPTER XII. A LETTER FROM THE CAMP
    • CHAPTER XIII. MISCHIEF ON FOOT
    • CHAPTER XIV. A RAID UPON THE PIG-PEN
    • CHAPTER XV. POMP BEHAVES BADLY
    • CHAPTER XVI. FRANK MAKES A FRIEND
    • CHAPTER XVII. A SHADE OF MYSTERY
    • CHAPTER XVIII. THANKSGIVING AT THE FARM
    • CHAPTER XIX. THE WONDERFUL TRANSFORMATION
    • CHAPTER XX. POMP'S EDUCATION COMMENCES
    • CHAPTER XXI. THE BATTLE OF FREDERICKSBURG
    • CHAPTER XXII. FRANK BROACHES A NEW PLAN
    • CHAPTER XXIII. POMP TAKES MRS. PAYSON PRISONER
    • CHAPTER XXIV. A CHAPTER FROM HARDEE
    • CHAPTER XXV. ELECTION OF OFFICERS
    • CHAPTER XXVI. THE REBEL TRAP
    • CHAPTER XXVII. POMP'S LIGHT INFANTRY TACTICS
    • CHAPTER XXVIII. JOHN HAYNES HAS A NARROW ESCAPE
    • CHAPTER XXIX. MR. MORTON'S STORY
    • CHAPTER XXX. FRANK CALLS ON SQUIRE HAYNES
    • CHAPTER XXXI. SQUIRE HAYNES SPRINGS HIS TRAP
    • CHAPTER XXXII. TURNING THE TABLES
    • CHAPTER XXXIII. CONCLUSION
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