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The Two Acre Lot-Why do you think this story might have appealed to middle-class readers?

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The Two Acre Lot by Horatio Alger, Jr. Author: Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899. Title: The Two ... Horatio Alger Digital Serials Project, Northern llinois University Libraries DeKalb, IL ..... two acre lot. Frank never regrets his brief season of adversity.

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Basically Frank, a boy with no wealth, made good by sheer determination and honest hard work. Middle Class readers like that sort of stuff! Most Middle Class people work for a living and are not born into money.

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