Ragged Dick
Excerpts from Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
By Horatio Alger
Published in 1868
During the Gilded Age (the era of industrialization from the early 1860s to t...
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Horatio Alger (1832-1899) was the American author of prodigiously popular and influential juvenile novels and biographies.Horatio Alger was born in Revere, Mass., the son of a Unitarian minister. The ...
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Perhaps the quality which has been most closely identified with the American spirit is success. Success--upward mobility, material prosperity acquired through hard work and shrewd ability--has been fo...
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Stephen Crane and Horatio Alger are both authors who discuss issues that deal with New York City in the 1800's. They are different in one major way. Crane is known as more of a realist, whereas Alger ...
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Ragged Dick
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.
