Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks by Jr. Horatio Alger
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"Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks" by Horatio Alger Jr. is a novel serialized in 1867 and published in 1868. This tale follows fourteen-year-old Dick, a street bootblack who smokes, drinks, and sleeps outdoors, but refuses to steal and dreams of becoming respectable. Through honesty, hard work, and fortunate encounters with helpful gentlemen, Dick begins his climb from vagrant life toward middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York
City. The story became Alger's best-selling work and established the formula repeated throughout his career. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899 |
|---|---|
| Title | Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragged_Dick |
| Credits | Andrew Sly |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 83.7 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Bildungsromans |
| Subject | Boys -- Fiction |
| Subject | Poor children -- Fiction |
| Subject | Shoe shiners -- Fiction |
| Subject | Street children -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 5348 |
| Release Date | Oct 5, 2004 |
| Last Update | Jul 20, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1162 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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