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The Young Book Agent; or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success

Chapter 2: THE YOUNG BOOK AGENT
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The narrative follows Frank Hardy, a resourceful teenage son whose family faces financial reverse after his father's business troubles and a missing older brother. Forced to support his household, he becomes a traveling book agent, learns the trade, encounters rival merchants and a competing agent, survives hazards such as storms and a coal-mine accident, and navigates personal setbacks and small triumphs along the road. Episodes depict practical lessons in perseverance, integrity, salesmanship, and family loyalty, culminating in a hard-won, modest professional success.

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Title: The Young Book Agent; or, Frank Hardy's Road to Success

Author: Jr. Horatio Alger

Illustrator: A. B. Shute

Release date: March 16, 2018 [eBook #56756]

Language: English

Credits: E-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)

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“BOOKS! YOU GET RIGHT OUT OF THIS DOORWAY!”–P. 112.


 

THE YOUNG
BOOK AGENT

Or, Frank Hardy’s Road to Success
BY
HORATIO ALGER, JR.
AUTHOR OF “LOST AT SEA,” “NELSON THE NEWSBOY,” “OUT
FOR BUSINESS,” “YOUNG CAPTAIN JACK,” “RAGGED
DICK SERIES,” “TATTERED TOM
SERIES,” ETC.
NEW YORK
STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY
1905

Copyright, 1905
BY
STITT PUBLISHING COMPANY