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Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward Paperback - 1985
by Alger, Horatio (Author)
- New
- Paperback
Description
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Details
- Title Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward
- Author Alger, Horatio (Author)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, New York
- Date 1985
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0140390332
- ISBN 9780140390339 / 0140390332
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.1 x 1.1 in (19.56 x 12.95 x 2.79 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Boys, New York (N.Y.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85107091
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
The hero of Ragged Dick is a veritable "diamond in the rough"as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appealed to parents, who repsonded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant ethic. Struggling Upward, published nearly thirty years later, followed the same time-tested formulas, and despite critical indifference it, too, had mass appeal.
As Carl Bode points out in his introduction, Horatio Alger filled a void in American literature and met scant competition both in the nature and the number of his works. Like his heroes, Alger rose to the top by chance, coincidence, and hard work.