Hector's inheritance, or, The boy of Smith Institute
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Conduct of life -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Identity -- Fiction; Fraud -- Fiction; Boarding schools -- Fiction; Schools -- Fiction; New York (State) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Hector's inheritance; Boy of Smith Institute
Description: Cheated out of his inheritance by his scheming uncle in nineteenth-century New York State, fifteen-year-old Hector leaves his estate, first attending a mediocre boarding school and then traveling to California where he makes a surprising discovery.
Notes: First published in 1885 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.