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Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger Jr., 1st World Library
Ragged Dick
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781421814575 (1421814579)
Publisher: 1st World Library
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
Series: Ragged Dick series (#1)
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Meandering Em's
Meandering Em's rated it
3.5 A Rags to Riches story
This 3 1/2 star children's book is almost unknown today. Horatio Alger, Jr. was a prolific and popular author in the 19th century. He wrote many books in the same formulaic style, which is "poor boy" becomes respectable through hard work. However, this was the first book I read and I quite enjoyed i...
Never Read Passively
Never Read Passively rated it
3.0 Ragged Dick
I read this book because I kept hearing liberals criticize the "Horatio Alger stories" that conservatives like to tell about America. According to these reputable sources, such rags to riches tales are no longer realistic for most of the nation's poor. Ragged Dick is a charismatic bootblack who, thr...
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