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Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Horatio Alger Jr.

Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Horatio Alger Jr.

Benitez, Paula
Alger, Horatio, Jr.

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ISBN10: 1540320766
ISBN13: 9781540320766
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 10 2016
Pages: 124
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. It was the first volume in the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and became Alger's best-selling work. The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a favorable reception. Student and Schoolmate reported their readers were delighted with the first installment, and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would love the novel. One modern scholar considers the story a puerile fantasy about class assimilation. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's subsequent novels and became the subject of parodies and satires.

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