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Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with boot blacks : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; edited by Hildegard Hoeller.
- Title
- Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with boot blacks : an authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Horatio Alger, Jr. ; edited by Hildegard Hoeller.
- Author
- Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899.
- Publication
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2008.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Hoeller, Hildegard, 1960-
- Description
- xii, 281 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- An annotated edition of Horatio Alger's 1868 novel, which follows a poor shoeshine boy as he overcomes his life of poverty on the streets of lower Manhattan through honesty and hard work, and includes critical essays and reviews of the text, a chronology of the author's life and works, a select bibliography, and other resources.
- Series Statement
- A Norton critical edition
- Alternative Title
- Ragged Dick
- Street life in New York with boot blacks
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Friar Anselmo ; Are my boys real? / Horatio Alger, Jr. -- Advice from Horation Alger, Jr., / Edward G. Alcorn -- New York and its people / F.J. Ottarson -- Street children / James D. McCabe, Jr. -- Outcast cihldren / Edward Crapsey -- Homeless boys / Charles Loring Brace.
- ISBN
- 9780393925890 (pbk.)
- 0393925897 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2006053090
- OCLC
- 78773890
- SCSB-12175460
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library