Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks - Softcover

Alger, Jr., Horatio; Trachtenberg, Alan

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9780451524805: Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks

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ISBN 10: 0451524802 ISBN 13: 9780451524805

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

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Alger was an utterly American artist . . . and the truth of his books is the truth of the power of the wish. . . . Alger was perhaps American capitalism s greatest and most effective propagandist. --Richard Wright

About the Author:

Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age.

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