Cast upon the breakers

By Horatio Alger Jr.

Book Overview

All of Alger's juvenile novels share essentially the same theme, known as the "Horatio Alger myth" a teenage boy works hard to escape poverty. Often it is not hard work that rescues the boy from his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385083866
• ISBN13: 9780385083867
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.