The Golden Magnet

Harry goes adventuring, and with him goes Tom, a young worker at Harry's father's soap boiling factory. Tom is wonderful. He gets Harry out of numerous dire situations, and the book would not work without him. He is down to earth, and full of commonsense and energy. Despite all sorts of adverse conditions and persons, they get the gold, and put everybody's affairs to rights, killing the villain, of course, on the way, and marrying the heroine, even though she is his first cousin. A good example of a late nineteenth century teenager's book, and if you like that sort of thing you will enjoy it too, for it is what used to be called a cracking good yarn.