Harry Raymond is a bright scholar at the Vernon High School until a sudden death leaves his family poor and at the mercy of the grasping Squire Turner. Harry takes a place, survives a mean trick, a fight on the cliff and a fire, and sets out into the wider world to earn a living, where new friends and enemies test his resolve.
A classic Alger rags-to-respectability story of pluck, honesty and hard work. Download the free EPUB.