Paperback, 179 pages
English language
Published June 15, 2005 by Polyglot Press.
Ragged Dick, or, Street life in New York with the bootblacks
Or, Street Life in New York With the Bootblacks (Alger, Horatio, Works.) Polyglot Press Alger series
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Although he manages to make a living as a shoeshine boy in late-1860's New York City, orphaned, fourteen-year-old Dick Hunter remains homeless and without many prospects until two new friends inspire him to better himself through education.
Subjects
- Shoe shiners -- Fiction
- Orphans -- Fiction
- Street children -- Fiction
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Fiction