Ragged Dick

Name: Ragged Dick
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ISBN: 9781611044904

ISBN-10: 1611044901

ISBN-13: 9781611044904

Edition: N/A

Authors: Horatio Alger

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Fourteen-year-old Dick Hunter lives on the streets of New York in the 1860s. His parents are dead, and he has been on his own since the age of seven. He shines shoes to earn a living. He sleeps in boxes. He jokes about having a mansion on Fifth Avenue and about owning shares of Erie Railroad stock. But he cannot imagine ever being more than a bootblack who spends every cent he earns and lives hand-to-mouth--until by chance he meets Frank Whitney. Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Alger's American rags-to-riches stories. Published in 1867, it promotes the values of hard work, thrift, honesty, integrity, and bravery. Alger…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Publisher: ReadaClassic.com
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.28" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English