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portada Timothy Crump's Ward: A Victorian Tale of an Orphan Girl, Lost Identity, Working-Class Family, and Moral Uplift in New York (en Inglés)
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Libro Físico
Editorial
Idioma
Inglés
Encuadernación
Tapa Blanda
Dimensiones
22.9x15.2x0.5 cm
ISBN13
9788028342050

Timothy Crump's Ward: A Victorian Tale of an Orphan Girl, Lost Identity, Working-Class Family, and Moral Uplift in New York (en Inglés)

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Timothy Crump's Ward follows the fortunes of a humble New York cooper, Timothy Crump, and the child entrusted to his household, unfolding a plot of poverty, lost identity, providential coincidence, and moral testing. Written in Alger's clear, earnest, sentimental style, the novel belongs to mid-nineteenth-century American domestic and juvenile fiction, where virtue, industry, and family affection contend against urban uncertainty and social inequality. Horatio Alger Jr. (1832-1899) became famous for narratives in which poor boys rise through honesty, perseverance, and timely patronage, but this early work reveals the broader moral imagination behind that formula. A Harvard-educated Unitarian minister turned professional writer, Alger knew both reformist religious culture and the precarious lives of city children; those experiences shaped his concern with orphanhood, respectability, and the ethical duties of ordinary citizens. Readers interested in American popular literature, Victorian moral fiction, or the origins of the "rags-to-riches" tradition will find Timothy Crump's Ward especially rewarding. It offers not psychological complexity so much as a revealing portrait of the hopes and anxieties of its age, making it a valuable and engaging introduction to Alger's social vision.

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