Helping himself, or, Grant Thornton's ambition
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; Kidnapping -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Helping himself; Grant Thornton's ambition
Description: To help pay his minister father's debts, sixteen-year-old Grant Thornton takes a job with a stockbroker in nineteenth-century New York City where he makes some valuable friends as well as a few enemies.
Notes: First published in 1886 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.