Frank Courtney is a well-dressed, well-provided pupil at Bridgeville Academy until a telegram brings news of his stepmother’s death and a will that leaves him nothing. Proud but honest, he sets out to support himself, selling goods door to door in New York and Brooklyn and meeting both kindness and trickery along the way.
Classic Alger: pluck, honesty and fortune earned the hard way. Download the free EPUB.