Mildred Jocelyn’s comfortable family loses its footing in New York, and her father’s weakness for opium drags them toward the edge of the city’s poor. While Mildred goes out to earn a living in a world that pays young women badly, the easy-going Roger begins to learn what it takes to become a man.
A social-problem novel on addiction and working women by one of the most popular American novelists of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.