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100 1 _aAlger, Horatio, Jr.,
_d1832-1899
245 1 4 _aThe Young Book Agent; or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2018
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2018-03-16
508 _aE-text prepared by David Edwards, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org)
520 _a"The Young Book Agent; or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success" by Horatio Alger Jr. is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows the protagonist, Frank Hardy, a young boy who is thrust into the role of a book agent due to his family's misfortunes. As he embarks on this new path, he learns valuable lessons about perseverance, responsibility, and the challenges of earning a living. At the start of the book, Frank is introduced as an optimistic sixteen-year-old boy living with his family. The narrative establishes the family's struggles, particularly concerning Frank's father, who has been injured in a train accident, and the impending financial troubles due to a business rival's deceit. As Frank seeks to help his family, he considers the profession of a book agent, leading to an encounter with experienced agents that fuels his determination to succeed despite the odds stacked against him. The opening sets a stage filled with both familial love and the harsh realities of economic hardship, framing Frank's journey toward independence and success. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aYoung men -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBildungsromans
653 _aNew York (N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSuccess -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aTraveling sales personnel -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBankruptcy -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSelling -- Books -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aShute, A. B.
_q(Augustus Burnham),
_d1851-1906
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/56756
999 _c97587
_d97587