Brave and bold, or, the fortunes of a factory boy

Date:

©1874.

Author:

Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH A395 B73 1874 LOCAL

Publisher:

John C. Winston :

Abstract:

In the 1870s, after his father is lost at sea, sixteen-year-old Robert Rushton works at the local factory to support himself and his mother but soon finds himself without a job seeking his fortunes in New York City and eventually voyaging to Calcutta in search of his father.

Physical Description:

342, [10] pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

Horatio Alger's books for boys and girls and Horatio Alger's books for boys and girls.

Notes:

Library's copy contains advertisements. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Winston edition, c 1874 by Loring, text printed from Loring plates; Brave and Bold Series v1; serialized in New York Weekly, starting Aug. 5, 1872; spine and front titles and rulings printed printed in black on red cloth, vignettes on cover (runaway horse and carriage) and spine (standing figure) printed in blue, brown and black cloth

Subjects:

Adventure stories, Swindlers and swindling Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life Juvenile fiction, Ocean travel Juvenile fiction, Young men India Juvenile fiction, Fortune Juvenile fiction, Success Juvenile fiction, Missing persons Juvenile fiction, Rare books 19th century, Adventure stories, Conduct of life, Fortune, Missing persons, Ocean travel, Rare books, Success, Swindlers and swindling, and Young men

Genres/Forms:

Fiction, Juvenile works, and Jugendbuch. gnd-content

Chronological Terms:

1800-1899 fast

Geographic Terms:

India