Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
by Alger, Horatio
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- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0451469593
- ISBN 13
- 9780451469595
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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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- Wonder Book (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C04I-01110
- Title
- Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
- Author
- Alger, Horatio
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0451469593
- ISBN 13
- 9780451469595
- Publisher
- Signet
- This edition first published
- 2014-07
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