PREFACE
“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 r...
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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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Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Horatio Alger
Horatio Alger, Jr.