Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition, credited to Horatio Alger, Jr., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Helping Himself, by Horatio Alger, Jr. Read by Richard and Sharon Kilmer with special help from Buddy Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty young Grant postpones his college education to take a job as a Wall Street broker's clerk. The first step is to deal with the avaricious and greedy man who is keeping them from obtaining the meager amount due them and which will at least allow them to eat. Grant's wits, pluck and sheer determination are tested time and time again and each time he rises to the occasion. Read of his struggle to feed his mother and himself and then to rise in the world despite great odds. I can say with great confidence that in the end, he might succeed! (Summary by phil chenevert)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition
• Author credits: Horatio Alger, Jr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 5:34:41

Catalogue topics

• alger
• succeeding
• YA
• teen

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 01 - The Minister's Son — 8:05
2. 02 - Grant Makes Two Business Calls — 8:52
3. 03 - Grant Walks to Somerset — 9:17
4. 04 - A Timely Rescue — 8:54
5. 05 - Mrs. Thornton's Pearls — 9:43
6. 06 - Grant Get Into Unexpected Trouble — 9:49
7. 07 - Mrs. Simpson Comes to Grief — 8:36
8. 08 - Grant Takes A Decisive Step — 9:35
9. 09 - Uncle Godfrey Parts From Grant — 8:42
10. 10 - A Day In Wall Street — 9:04
11. 11 - Grant Makes a Friend — 8:29
12. 12 - Mrs. Estabrook's Plans — 9:27
13. 13 - Two Views of Tom Calder — 8:24
14. 14 - Willis Ford's New Friends — 10:16
15. 15 - An Artful Trap — 8:18
16. 16 - Grant Falls Under Suspicion — 8:26
17. 17 - The Telltale Key — 9:58
18. 18 - Grant's Enemies Triumph — 9:32
19. 19 - Important Evidence — 9:04
20. 20 - At The Fifth Avenue Hotel — 8:33
21. 21 - The Thief is Discovered — 9:28
22. 22 - Willis Ford At Bay — 9:03
23. 23 - Justice Triumphs — 9:18
24. 24 - Starling News — 9:14

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