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Ragged Dick

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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.It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive "Contexts" section includes maps... More
Book Information
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
BindingPaperback (28 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages320
ISBN-100393925897
ISBN-13978-0393925890
Publication Date10/29/2007
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About Horatio Alger (Author) : Born in Revere, Massachusetts, January 13, 1832, Horatio Alger, Jr., grew up in a Calvinist home with a strong focus on education and religion. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard Divinity School... more
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About Hildegard Hoeller (Editor) : Hildegard Hoeller is a published editor. A published credit of Hildegard Hoeller is Ragged Dick (Norton Critical Edition).
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