Fame and fortune, or, The progress of Richard Hunter
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; Friendship -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Fame and fortune; Progress of Richard Hunter
Description: After spending much of his life as a self-reliant boot-black on the streets of late-1860's New York, genial, fifteen-year-old Dick Hunter finds it hard to adjust to his new job and improved social status, especially when jealous enemies frame him for theft.
Notes: First published in 1868 by Loring, Boston.
Sequel to: Ragged Dick.