The errand boy, or, How Phil Brent won success
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Self-reliance -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Impostors and imposture -- Fiction; Fathers and sons -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Errand boy; How Phil Brent won success
Description: Sixteen-year-old Philip Brent leaves his small hometown to seek his fortune in 1880s New York after his spiteful stepmother reveals that instead of being his late father's beloved only son, he is of unknown parentage and must fend for himself.
Notes: First published in 1888 by A.L. Burt, New York.