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Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with the boot-blacks / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; with a new introduction by Michael Meyer.

Title
Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with the boot-blacks / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; with a new introduction by Michael Meyer.
Author
Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
Publication
New York : Signet Classics, 2005.

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Description
xviii, 186 p.; 18 cm.
Summary
Although he manages to make a living as a shoeshine boy in late-1860s New York City, fourteen-year-old Dick Hunter, an orphan, remains homeless and without many prospects until two new friends inspire him to become educated.
Uniform Title
Ragged Dick
Alternative Title
  • Ragged Dick
  • Street life in New York with the boot-blacks
Subject
  • Boys > Fiction
  • Shoe shiners > Fiction
  • Poor children > Fiction
  • Street children > Fiction
  • New York (N.Y.) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Bildungsromans
  • Fiction
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0451529839
LCCN
^^2005008130
OCLC
  • 58604558
  • SCSB-10901470
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library