Name: Tom Grogan
Price: 34.95 CAD
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Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
ISBN: 1545104026

Tom Grogan

By Francis Hopkinson Smith 29 Jan, 2019

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Tom Grogan is a novel published in 1896 by Francis Hopkinson Smith that was the best-selling book in the United States in 1896. The story was initially serialized in The Century Magazine starting in December 1895, with illustrations by Charles Stanley Reinhart.......... Tom Grogan, by F. Hopkinson Smith (1895.) is a spirited and most entertaining and ingenious study of laboring life in Staten Island, New York. Tom Grogan was a stevedore, who died from the effects of an injury. With a family to support, his widow conceals the fact of her husband's death, saying that he is sick in a hospital, that she may assume both his name and business. She is thenceforth known to all as 'Tom Grogan'. A sturdy, cheery, capable Irishwoman, she carries on the business with an increasing success, which arouses the jealous opposition of some rival stevedores and walking delegates of the labor union, which she has refused to join. The story tells how, with marvelous pluck, Tom meets all the contemptible means which her enemies employ in order to down her Less

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