This edition page records Shifting For Himself; or, Gilbert Greyson's Fortunes, credited to Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899, within the Fantasy & Juvenile Worlds collection at qiuiq.com.

Edition profile

The extracted text contains approximately 55,793 words, corresponding to an estimated 243 minutes of reading, and is divided into 43 detectable text sections. These figures describe the downloaded text file rather than a printed pagination system.

The automated text analysis reports an average sentence length of about 10.5 words and a measured lexical-diversity value of 0.078. These measurements are descriptive reading aids, not literary ratings.

Catalog context

The source record associates this edition with the following subjects: Orphans -- Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction, Bildungsromans, Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction, New York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction, Poverty -- Juvenile fiction, City and town life -- Juvenile fiction, Success -- Juvenile fiction. Catalog terms may reflect historical library practice and can be broader or narrower than a modern reader’s interpretation.

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