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Struggling upward : or, Luke Larkin's luck

Horatio Alger, Henry T. Coates (Publisher)
This is the story of a poor boy's attempts to rise up from his bootstraps and make something of himself. Luke Larkin, who through hard work, honesty, determination, and compassion works to achieve success. Luke lives in poverty with his ailing mother. Then one day a stranger appears and gives him a box that he must keep safe and never open

Print Book, English, 1890
Henry T. Coates, Philadelphia, 1890