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Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734065445
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Ragged Dick by Horatio Alger
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I ain?t knocked round the city streets all my life for nothin?," proclaims Ragged Dick, the fast-talking boy hero of Horatio Alger?s classic rags-to-riches tale. Dick is a plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically?but he is also honest and hardworking, striving not for wealth and status, but for a steady job, a decent place to sleep, and respectability. A quintessential boy?s novel of adventure, romance, and coming of age, Ragged Dick brings to life the drama and perils of living among other young outcasts in the crowded streets of lower Manhattan. It is at the same time an exhilarating tale of one boy?s metamorphosis from a dirty street urchin to a handsome, self-respecting gentleman
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781502450166
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-21 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look at Ragged Dick through the lenses of 1860s New York and Alger's own life there. Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack – he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets – but he is anxious "to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up "'spectable". He won't steal under any circumstances, and many gentlemen who are impressed with this virtue (and his determination to succeed) offer their aid. Mr. Greyson, for example, invites him to church and Mr. Whitney gives him five dollars for performing a service. Dick uses the money to open a bank account and to rent his first apartment. He fattens his bank account by practicing frugality and is tutored by his roommate Fosdick in the three R's. When Dick rescues a drowning child, the grateful father rewards him with a new suit and a job in his mercantile firm. With this final event, Richard is "cut off from the old vagabond life which he hoped never to resume", and henceforth will call himself Richard Hunter, Esq.
Author : Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a typical rags-to-riches story about a young boy growing to success through honorable behavior and hard work. The prominent personage is Ragged Dick, a fourteen-year-old bootblack who earns a living by cleaning shoes, and his only joy is smoking and occasional drinking. Yet, his main virtue is prudence. He won't steal at any occasion and dreams to succeed by earnest work. However, good strangers notice his determination to live a better life and help him either by paying an excellent salary to rent a room or offering him a job and clothing. Eventually, Dick quits drinking and smoking and grows into an honorable young gentleman. Hence, he calls himself Richard Hunter, Esq.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789358596908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Bound To Rise; Or, Up The Ladder written by Horatio Alger and published by Double 9 Books. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel tells the story of Harry Vane, a young boy who is determined to rise in society. He leaves home at the age of 14 to find work and support his family. Along the way, he faces many challenges, but he never gives up. He works hard and eventually achieves success. The book is a classic rags-to-riches story that teaches the importance of hard work, perseverance, and honesty. It is a reminder that anyone can achieve their dreams if they are willing to work hard and never give up. Bound to Rise; Or, Up the Ladder is a timeless classic that is still relevant today. It is a story that will inspire young people to dream big and never give up on their dreams.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781717480767
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift. He is a good-looking boy that appears aristocratic with a frank and open face. Dick must handle con artists, bullies, false accusations of theft, and, most of all, overcoming his inability to read and write. Of particular interest are the descriptions of life on the streets of late 19-century New York City. This edition of the book contains four original illustrations, rejuvenated.
Author : Horatio Jr. Alger
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck written by Horatio Jr. Alger and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck" by Horatio Jr. Alger. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Rough and Ready written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus, also known as Rough and Ready, is a newsboy who must protect his sister, Rose, from an alcoholic stepfather, James Martin. Through luck, hard work, and honesty, Rufus finds a home for Rose with a kindly seamstress and prospers in his business of selling newspapers. However, Mr. Martin is lurking in the shadows waiting for an opportunity to reclaim the children and hatches a plot to kidnap Rose.
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent DiGirolamo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199910774
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Crying the News written by Vincent DiGirolamo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Benjamin Franklin to Ragged Dick to Jack Kelly, hero of the Disney musical Newsies, newsboys have long intrigued Americans as symbols of struggle and achievement. But what do we really know about the children who hawked and delivered newspapers in American cities and towns? Who were they? What was their life like? And how important was their work to the development of a free press, the survival of poor families, and the shaping of their own attitudes, values and beliefs? Crying the News: A History of America's Newsboys offers an epic retelling of the American experience from the perspective of its most unshushable creation. It is the first book to place newsboys at the center of American history, analyzing their inseparable role as economic actors and cultural symbols in the creation of print capitalism, popular democracy, and national character. DiGirolamo's sweeping narrative traces the shifting fortunes of these "little merchants" over a century of war and peace, prosperity and depression, exploitation and reform, chronicling their exploits in every region of the country, as well as on the railroads that linked them. While the book focuses mainly on boys in the trade, it also examines the experience of girls and grown-ups, the elderly and disabled, blacks and whites, immigrants and natives. Based on a wealth of primary sources, Crying the News uncovers the existence of scores of newsboy strikes and protests. The book reveals the central role of newsboys in the development of corporate welfare schemes, scientific management practices, and employee liability laws. It argues that the newspaper industry exerted a formative yet overlooked influence on working-class youth that is essential to our understanding of American childhood, labor, journalism, and capitalism.
Author : Ric Burns
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 059353414X
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)
Download or read book New York written by Ric Burns and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of the only comprehensive illustrated history of New York—with more than 600 ravishing photographs and illustrations—that tells the remarkable 400-year-long story of the city from its beginning in 1624 up to the current moment. The companion volume to the acclaimed PBS series. This landmark book traces the spectacular growth of New York from its initial settlement on the tip of Manhattan through the destruction wrought by the Revolutionary War to its rise as the nation’s premier commercial capital and industrial center and as a magnet for immigrant hopes and dreams in the 19th century to its standing as a beacon of modern culture in the 20th century and as a worldwide symbol of resilience in the 21st century. The story continues here with new chapters delivering a sweeping portrait of New York at the dawn of the 21st century, when it emerged after decades of decline to assert its place at the very center of a new globalized culture. Here is a city challenged—indeed, sometimes shaken to its core—by a series of profound crises: the aftermath of 9/11, the continual struggle with racial injustice, the financial crisis of 2008, the devastation of Superstorm Sandy, the still unfolding cataclysm of the COVID-19 pandemic—whose earliest and deadliest urban epicenter was New York itself. Here too is a lively portrait of the city’s vibrant street life and culture: the birth of hip-hop in the South Bronx, Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Gates in Central Park, the musicals of Broadway, the explosion in location filmmaking in every borough, the pivotal rise of the tech industry, and so much more. The history of this city—especially in the tumultuous and transformative two decades detailed in the new chapters—is an epic story of rebirth and growth, an astonishing transfiguration, still in progress, of the world’s first modern city into a model and prototype for the global city of the future.
Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062343092
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Why Poetry written by Matthew Zapruder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.
Author : Horatio Algers, Jr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Algers, Jr and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by Horatio Alger Jr., which was serialized in Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and expanded for publication as a full-length novel in May 1868 by the publisher A. K. Loring. Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious "to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable". He won't steal under any circumstances, and many gentlemen who are impressed with this virtue (and his determination to succeed) offer their aid. Mr. Greyson, for example, invites him to church and Mr. Whitney gives him five dollars for performing a service. Dick uses the money to open a bank account and to rent his first apartment. He fattens his bank account by practicing frugality and is tutored by his roommate Fosdick in the three R's. When Dick rescues a drowning child, the grateful father rewards him with a new suit and a job in his mercantile firm.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781543196184
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (961 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks written by Horatio Alger and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. The book Ragged Dick begins by looking at Ragged Dick through the lenses of 1860s New York and Alger's own life there. Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious "to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable." He won't steal under any circumstances, and many gentlemen who are impressed with this virtue (and his determination to succeed) offer their aid. Mr. Greyson, for example, invites him to church and Mr. Whitney gives him five dollars for performing a service. Dick uses the money to open a bank account and to rent his first apartment. He fattens his bank account by practicing frugality and is tutored by his roommate Fosdick in the three R's. When Dick rescues a drowning child, the grateful father rewards him with a new suit and a job in his mercantile firm. With this final event, Richard is "cut off from the old vagabond life which he hoped never to resume" and henceforth will call himself Richard Hunter, Esq The Alger canon is described by Carl Bode of the University of Maryland as "bouncy little books for boys" that promote "the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in adversity.
Author : Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks written by Jr. Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks Jr. Horatio Alger
Author : Jr. Horatio Alger
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336834238X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick; Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks written by Jr. Horatio Alger and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Namaskar Book
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick or, Street Life in New York with Boot-Blacks written by Horatio Alger and published by Namaskar Book. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ragged Dick: Dreams and Determination in the Heart of New York: Step into the bustling streets of New York City alongside Dick, as he rises from humble beginnings to prove that determination and grit can change the course of one's life. Ragged Dick Or, Street Life in New York with Boot-Blacks by Horatio Alger: Step into the bustling streets of 19th-century New York City with Ragged Dick Or, Street Life in New York with Boot-Blacks by Horatio Alger. This novel follows the journey of Dick Hunter, a poor and ambitious bootblack, as he navigates the challenges of urban life. Alger's narrative weaves a tale of determination, morality, and the pursuit of the American Dream in the face of adversity. Why This Book? Character Development: Alger's exploration of Dick's transformation from poverty to success offers a timeless story of personal growth and resilience, resonating with readers of all ages. Social Commentary: The novel addresses social mobility, ethics, and the impact of economic circumstances on individuals, sparking discussions about class and opportunity. Historical Insight: Gain insights into the urban environment and socio-economic conditions of 19th-century New York City, enhancing your understanding of this dynamic period. Moral Lessons: Alger's emphasis on honesty, hard work, and perseverance imparts valuable life lessons that remain relevant in today's world. Immerse yourself in the inspiring journey of Ragged Dick and explore the themes of personal growth and social mobility in the urban landscape of 19th-century America.
