PREFACE
CHAPTER I FRANK AT HOME
CHAPTER II DOWN AT THE WRECK
CHAPTER III DISAGREEABLE NEWS
CHAPTER IV THE HUNT FOR A MISSING MAN
CHAPTER V FRANK AT THE STORE
CHAPTER VI THE RIVAL MERCHANTS
CHAPTER VII A FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION
CHAPTER VIII FRANK LOOKS FOR WORK
CHAPTER IX FRANK MEETS A BOOK AGENT
CHAPTER X FRANK GOES TO NEW YORK
CHAPTER XI FRANK AS AN AGENT
CHAPTER XII A BRIGHT BEGINNING
CHAPTER XIII FRANK ON THE ROAD
CHAPTER XIV A BOY RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XV CAUGHT IN A STORM
CHAPTER XVI AN IMPORTANT SALE
CHAPTER XVII A CURIOUS HAPPENING
CHAPTER XVIII THE WOULD-BE ACTOR
CHAPTER XIX GIVING AN AUTOGRAPH
CHAPTER XX FRANK'S REMARKABLE FIND
CHAPTER XXI GABE FLECKER SHOWS HIS HAND
CHAPTER XXII THE RIVAL BOOK AGENT
CHAPTER XXIII NEWS FROM HOME
CHAPTER XXIV LOST IN A COAL MINE
CHAPTER XXV FRANK MEETS FLECKER AGAIN
CHAPTER XXVI AN ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXVII AT HOME ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XXVIII FRANK STARTS FOR THE SOUTH
CHAPTER XXIX A SCENE ON THE TRAIN
CHAPTER XXX FRANK MEETS HIS BROTHER MARK
CHAPTER XXXI A CLEVER CAPTURE CONCLUSION
Title: The Young Book Agent
or Frank Hardy's Road to Success
Author: Horatio Alger
Language: English
Character set encoding: UTF-8
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)
“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