world before him
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; Stepfamilies -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Disinherited by his scheming stepfather, sixteen-year-old Frank Courtney seeks his fortune in New York City and through perseverance, ambition, and high moral character obtains an excellent job and good prospects for the future.
Notes: First published in 1902 by the Penn Pub. Co., Philadelphia.