Horatio Alger

Adrift in the City Horatio Alger Illustrated edition

Oliver Conrad, fifteen, lives in a country mansion with his stepfather, stepbrother and mother. Oliver's stepfather secretly commits his mother to a madhouse to steal her estate and pretends she has died. To get Oliver out of the picture, his stepfather arranges a job for him in New York City. Olive must survive through many trials of hardship to save his mother and get home to reveal the truth of his stepfather's evil plans. Included in this Illustrated Edition of the 1895 version of Adrift in the City are the two original illustrations, rejuvenated.