From Farm to Fortune

By Horatio Alger

Release Date: 1899-01-01
Genre: Fiction & Literature

Score: 5

From 8 Ratings

Description

Alger describes young men in the city trying to get a head as newsboys, match boys, peddlers, street musicians, and many others. Through luck and hard work, sixteen-year-old Ohio farm boy Nat finds surprising success in nineteenth-century New York City.

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