Jed, the poorhouse boy
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Identity -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Poverty -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Supposedly an orphan, sixteen-year-old Jed resolves to leave the nineteenth-century Pennsylvania poorhouse where he grew up and make his way in the world.
Notes: First published in 1899 by Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia.