Frank and fearless, or, The fortunes of Jasper Kent
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Self-reliance -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Stepmothers -- Fiction; Bullies -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Frank and fearless; Fortunes of Jasper Kent
Description: When his wealthy invalid father dies shortly after marrying the unscrupulous mother of a bullying classmate, fifteen-year-old Jasper Kent, finding himself deprived of home, fortune, and means to an education, decides to travel west and forge a new future for himself.
Notes: First published in 1897 by Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia.