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Ragged Dick

Ragged Dick( )
Author: Alger, Horatio
ISBN:978-1-4121-8055-9
Publisher:EbooksLib
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $2.99
Book Description:

Ragged Dick was contributed as a serial story to the pages of the Schoolmate, a well-known juvenile magazine, during the year 1867. While in course of publication, it was received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is now presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to illustrate the life and experiences of the friendless and vagrant children who are now numbered by thousands in New York and other cities

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Alger, Horatio (Author)
Horatio Alger was born in Massachusetts in 1832. He was a graduate of Harvard University.

He was considered one of the most renown writers of the 19th Century. His protagonists were usually young boys who struggled from poverty to achieve success in life. He wrote over 100 books with that theme. His titles include "Ragged Dick," "Adrift in New York," 'Sink or Swim," and "The Odds Against Him," "Rough and Ready,"Sam's Chance,"and "Paul the Peddler."

Alger died in 1899.

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