Tom Grogan (Esprios Classics)

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 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.