• 导读
  • Feeling a natural reluctance to appear before her employer with her hands covered with dough, she hastily washed them. All this, however, took time, and before she responded to the first summons, the second "Han-nah!" delivered with a little sharp emphasis, had been uttered.

  • 内容简介
  • 这是作者关于竞争系列书目的第二个系列。尽管和以前的内容不同,但是主题都是说每个男孩的人生都不容易,都是一场竞争,必须要有持之以恒和坚持不懈的精神才能实现自己的梦想。

    The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity. Squire Benjamin Newcome, as he was called, in the right of his position as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Selectmen, and wealthiest resident of Wrenville, was a man of rule and measure. He was measured in his walk, measured in his utterance, and measured in all his transactions. He might be called a dignified machine. He had a very exalted conception of his own position, and the respect which he felt to be his due, not only from his own household, but from all who approached him. If the President of the United States had called upon him, Squire Newcome would very probably have felt that he himself was the party who conferred distinction, and not received it.

  • 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
    • PREFACE
    • I. SQUIRE NEWCOME.
    • II. PAUL PRESCOTT'S HOME.
    • III. PAUL'S BRILLIANT PROSPECTS.
    • IV. LIFE IN A NEW PHASE.
    • V. A CRISIS.
    • VI. PAUL'S DETERMINATION
    • VII. PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY.
    • VIII. A FRIEND IN NEED.
    • IX. A CLOUD IN THE MUDGE HORIZON.
    • X. MR. MUDGE MEETS HIS MATCH.
    • XI. WAYSIDE GOSSIP.
    • XII. ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY.
    • XIII. PAUL REACHES THE CITY.
    • XIV. A STRANGE BED-CHAMBER.
    • XV. A TURN OF FORTUNE.
    • XVI. YOUNG STUPID.
    • XVII. BEN'S PRACTICAL JOKE.
    • XVIII. MORE ABOUT BEN.
    • XIX. MRS. MUDGE'S DISCOMFITURE.
    • XX. PAUL OBTAINS A SITUATION.
    • XXI. SMITH AND THOMPSON'S YOUNG MAN.
    • XXII. MR. BENTON'S ADVENTURE.
    • XXIII. PAUL LOSES HIS SITUATION AND GAINS A FRIEND.
    • XXIV. PAUL CALLS ON MRS. DANFORTH.
    • XXV. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
    • XXVI. A VULGAR RELATION.
    • XXVII. MR. MUDGE'S FRIGHT.
    • XXVIII. HOW BEN GOT HOME.
    • XXIX. DAWKINS IN DIFFICULTIES.
    • XXX. A TRAP IS LAID FOR PAUL.
    • XXXI. CONVICTED OF THEFT.
    • XXXII. RIGHT TRIUMPHANT.
    • XXXIII. PAUL REDEEMS HIS PLEDGE.
    • XXXIV. HOW PAUL GOES BACK TO WRENVILLE.
    • XXXV. CONCLUSION.
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