The Telegraph Boy: Children's Fiction

Horatio Alger

Jul 2016 · Children's Fiction Book 79 · VM eBooks

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CHAPTER I. A YOUNG CARPET-BAGGER.
CHAPTER II. DICK RAFFERTY.
CHAPTER III. FRANK FINDS AN EMPLOYER.
CHAPTER IV. "PITY THE BLIND."
CHAPTER V. FRANK THROWS UP HIS SITUATION.
CHAPTER VI. FRANK GETS A JOB.
CHAPTER VII. AN INVITATION TO DINNER.
CHAPTER VIII. A NEWSBOY'S EXPERIENCES.
CHAPTER IX. VICTOR DUPONT.
CHAPTER X. A NEW PROSPECT.
CHAPTER XI. THE TELEGRAPH BOY.
CHAPTER XII. A WAYWARD SON.
CHAPTER XIII. A TIMELY RESCUE.
CHAPTER XIV. FRANK MAKES AN EVENING CALL.
CHAPTER XV. AT WALLACK'S THEATRE.
CHAPTER XVI. FRANK AS A DETECTIVE.
CHAPTER XVII. FRANK MEETS AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER XVIII. A RICH WOMAN'S SORROW.
CHAPTER XIX. A MESSENGER OF GOOD TIDINGS.
CHAPTER XX. A NEW JOB, AND A LETTER FROM HOME.
CHAPTER XXI. FRANK'S FIRST DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XXII. FOLLOWING UP A CLUE.
CHAPTER XXIII. BROUGHT TO BAY.
CHAPTER XXIV. AN OPEN ENEMY.
CHAPTER XXV. WHAT THE OLD TRUNK CONTAINED.
CHAPTER XXVI. A TRAP, AND WHO FELL INTO IT.
CHAPTER XXVII. FRANK BECOMES A GOOD SAMARITAN.
CHAPTER XXVIII. A COUNTRY COUSIN.
CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION.

About the author

Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many young-adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.