RAGGED DICK; OR, STREET LIFE IN NEW YORK WITH THE BOOT-BLACKS
by HORATIO ALGER, JR
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- Hardcover
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Ragged Dick is a children's novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. about a poor bootblack and his rise to middle-class comfort and respectability through good moral behavior, clean living, and determination. Ragged Dick was serialized in 1867 and published as a novel in 1868. Horatio Alger, Jr. formed an association with the Newsboys' Lodging House, a home for impoverished children in New York City, after resigning from the ministry in 1864.
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- Dunaway Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90113
- Title
- RAGGED DICK; OR, STREET LIFE IN NEW YORK WITH THE BOOT-BLACKS
- Author
- HORATIO ALGER, JR
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- PORTER & COATES
- Date Published
- January 1868
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