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Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks

Horatio Alger Jr. - Author

Michael Meyer - Introduction by

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ISBN 9780451529831 | 208 pages | 06 Sep 2005 | Signet Classic | 4.33 x 6.85in | 18 - AND UP
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A plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically, Dick is also honest and hardworking. A quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming-of-age, it is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman.