Ragged Dick: or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (Modern Library Classics)
by Horatio Alger
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- Paperback
- Condition
- USED Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812973585
- ISBN 13
- 9780812973587
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Montclair Book Center (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 282546
- Title
- Ragged Dick: or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks (Modern Library Classics)
- Author
- Horatio Alger
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- USED Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0812973585
- ISBN 13
- 9780812973587
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- Usa
- Date Published
- September 2005
- Pages
- 192
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