Overview
Tom Grogan: 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 novel also ran in the The Century Magazine starting in December 1895, with illustrations from 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 every one as 'Tom Grogan.'
- | Author: F. Hopkinson Smith
- | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Nov 18, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 134 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1979854149
- | ISBN-13: 9781979854146
