store boy, or, The fortunes of Ben Barclay
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Real estate agents -- Fiction; Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction; Mystery and detective stories; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Store boy; Fortunes of Ben Barclay
Description: Anxious to help his widowed mother meet the greedy landlords demand for the full mortgage payment, sixteen-year-old Ben Barclay finds employment as a secretary to a real estate agent in 1870's New York City, and through honesty, good character, and friendship saves the family home and finds answers to a long-ago mystery.
Notes: First published in 1887 by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia.