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"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 received with so many evidences of favor that it has been rewritten and considerably enlarged, and is presented to the public as the first volume of a series intended to illustrate the life and experiences of the friendless and vagrant children who are now numbered by thousands in New York and other cities.Several characters in the story are sketched from life. The necessary information has been gathered mainly from personal observation and conversations with the boys themselves. The author is indebted also to the excellent Superintendent of the Newsboys' Lodging House, in Fulton Street, for some facts of which he has been able to make use. Some anachronisms may be noted. Wherever they occur, they have been admitted, as aiding in the development of the story, and will probably be considered as of little importance in an unpretending volume, which does not aspire to strict historical accuracy.
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Fiction, Street children, Shoe shiners, Street children in fiction, Shoe shiners in fiction, Poor children in fiction, Poor children, Boys in fiction, Boys, Friendship in fiction, Conduct of life, Orphans, Orphans in fiction, Friendship, History, Conduct of life in fiction, Social life and customs, Juvenile fiction, City and town life, Success, Fiction, general, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, coming of age, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, short stories (single author), Youth, Self-culture, Diligence, Children's stories, Homeless youth, Hotels, Boys--fiction, Shoe shiners--fiction, Poor children--fiction, Street children--fiction, Ps1029.a3 a6 1985, 813/.4Places
New York (N.Y.), United StatesTimes
1865-1898, 19th centuryShowing 7 featured editions. View all 26 editions?
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Ragged Dick: Or Street Life in New York With the Boot-blacks
March 23, 2007, BiblioBazaar
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Ragged Dick (Norton Critical Edition)
December 19, 2007, W. W. Norton, W. W. Norton & Co.
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0393925897 9780393925890
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Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York With the Bootblacks (Alger, Horatio, Works.)
October 30, 2002, Polyglot Press
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1931927081 9781931927086
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Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with the boot-blacks
1990, Penguin Group
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0451524802 9780451524805
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