Cast upon the breakers
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Poverty -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Left penniless after his inheritance is lost by his guardian, sixteen-year-old Rodney Ropes leaves boarding school and tries to find a way to make a living, continue his education, and maintain his integrity in 1890s New York.
Notes: First published in 1974 by Doubleday & Co., New York.
"Written under the pseudonym, Arthur Lee Putnam."--T.p. verso.