train boy
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; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Railroads -- Trains -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.; Trains
Description: Sixteen-year-old Paul Palmer, who sells newspapers and magazines on the train to support his widowed mother and younger sister, achieves financial prosperity after spoiling the unsavory schemes of several swindlers.
Notes: First published in 1883 by G.W. Carleton & Co. & Street & Smith, New York.