Nothing To
Do A Tilt at Our Best Society. by Horatio Alger - book
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ILLUSTRATED A short poetic piece at our society.
The "Nothing" series of small books is an
enigmatic literary complex of not less than six slim volumes of poetry. Alger
can definitely take credit for only one of them - "NOTHING TO DO; A Tilt at
Our Best Society" — although it is an anonymous work with no author listed.
Alger produced this book before taking the decisive step towards a life-long
career of writing stories for boys. Of little meaning today, the "Nothing"
series was filled with thinly veiled references to events and personalities of
that era. They were written at a time, when for an evening's entertainment,
the family would gather in the parlor and, while one read, the others
listened.
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