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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 : James V. Catano
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809323951
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (239 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dicks written by James V. Catano and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporate magnates of the late 20th century as exemplified by Lee Iacocca, and industrial barons on the Gilded Age such as Andrew Carnegie comprise the brotherhood Catano (English, Louisiana State U.) calls Ragged Dicks. He examines their own accounts of themselves to reveal how the rich take personal credit for their success. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Richard Wagamese
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385256949
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Ragged Company written by Richard Wagamese and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck. A found cigarette package (contents: some unsmoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed. Ragged Company is a journey into both the future and the past. Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories.
Author : Horatio Alger (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mark, the Match Boy; Or, Richard Hunter's Ward written by Horatio Alger (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625585209
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dicks written by Horatio Alger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-17 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mr. Standfast" is the third part of a trilogy which begins with "The Thirty-Nine Steps" and "Greenmantle". In this nail-biting adventure story, Hannay must outwit a foe far more intelligent than himself; muster the courage to propose to the lovely, clever Mary Lamington; and survive a brutal war. Although Mr. Standfast is a sequel to The Thirty-Nine Steps, it offers far more characterisation and philosophy than the earlier book. For its pace and suspense, its changes of scenery and thrilling descriptions of the last great battles against the Germans, Mr Standfast offers everything that has made its author so enduringly popular.
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 : Sanora Babb
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806180781
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Whose Names Are Unknown written by Sanora Babb and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience. Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this “exceptionally fine” novel but when John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath swept the nation, Cerf explained that the market could not support two books on the subject.
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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ben, the Luggage Boy written by Horatio Alger and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Ben runs away from home after a conflict with his father and lives on the streets of New York City for years, but his mother still hopes to see him again.
Author : Philip F. Gura
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429951346
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Truth's Ragged Edge written by Philip F. Gura and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers—such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J. Webb, and the irrepressible John Neal—to paint a complete and authoritative portrait of the era. Gura also gives us the key to understanding what sets the early novel apart, arguing that it is distinguished by its roots in "the fundamental religiosity of American life." Our nation's pioneering novelists, it turns out, wrote less in the service of art than of morality. This history begins with a series of firsts: the very first American novel, William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy, published in 1789; the first bestsellers, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette, novels that were, like Brown's, cautionary tales of seduction and betrayal; and the first native genre, religious tracts, which were parables intended to instruct the Christian reader. Gura shows that the novel did not leave behind its proselytizing purpose, even as it evolved. We see Catharine Maria Sedgwick in the 1820s conceiving of A New-England Tale as a critique of Puritanism's harsh strictures, as well as novelists pushing secular causes: George Lippard's The Quaker City, from 1844, was a dark warning about growing social inequality. In the next decade certain writers—Hawthorne and Melville most famously—began to depict interiority and doubt, and in doing so nurtured a broader cultural shift, from social concern to individualism, from faith in a distant god to faith in the self. Rich in subplots and detail, Gura's narrative includes enlightening discussions of the technologies that modernized publishing and allowed for the printing of novels on a mass scale, and of the lively cultural journals and literary salons of early nineteenth-century New York and Boston. A book for the reader of history no less than the reader of fiction, Truth's Ragged Edge—the title drawn from a phrase in Melville, about the ambiguity of truth—is an indispensable guide to the fascinating, unexpected origins of the American novel.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140390339
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward written by Horatio Alger and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1985-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1860's through the 1890s, Horatio Alger wrote hundreds of novels to teach young boys the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in the face of adversity. As Carl Bode points out in his introduction, Horatio Alger filled a void in American literature and met scant competition both in the nature and the number of his works. Like his heroes, Alger rose to the top by chance, coincidence, and hard work. The hero of Ragged Dick is a veritable "diamond in the rough"—as innately virtuous as he is streetwise and cocky. Immediately popular with young readers, the novel also appealed to parents, who repsonded to its colorful espousal of the Protestant ethic. Struggling Upward, published nearly thirty years later, followed the same time-tested formulas, and despite critical indifference it, too, had mass appeal. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812973585
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2005-09-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Alger] was an utterly American artist . . . and the truth of his books is the truth of the power of the wish. . . . Alger was perhaps American capitalism’s greatest and most effective propagandist.”–Richard Wright Introduction by David K. Shipler Written to inspire schoolboys to strive for “honesty, industry, frugality, and a worthy ambition,” the novels of Horatio Alger (1832-99) are infused with great humanity, broad humor, and a surprisingly sophisticated view of Gilded Age propriety. Central to Alger’s philosophy is the notion that heroes like Ragged Dick, a poor boot-black, manage to get ahead by dint of hard work, resourcefulness, luck, pluck, and fair play. Alger’s upwardly mobile heroes have become paragons of middle-class comfort and moral standing, and their journeys from rags to respectability have long been viewed as the very embodiment of the American Dream. In this Modern Library Paperback Classic, the text of Ragged Dick is set from the first American book edition of 1868. Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide.
Author : Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486429
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger’s most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly a hundred subsequent novels for boys: a young hero, inexperienced in the temptations of the city but morally armed to resist them, is unexpectedly forced to earn a livelihood. The hero’s exemplary struggle—to retain his virtue, to clear his name of accusations, and to gain economic independence—was the basis of the Alger plot. Hugely popular at the turn of the twentieth century, Alger’s works have at different times been framed as a model for the “American dream” and as dangerously exciting sensationalism for young readers; Gary Scharnhorst’s new introduction separates the myth of Alger as “success ideologue” from the more complex messages conveyed in his work. Ragged Dick is paired in this edition with Risen from the Ranks, another coming-of-age story of a young man achieving respectability. Historical appendices include extensive contemporary reviews, material on the “success myth” associated with Alger, and parodies of Alger’s work.
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.
Author : Horatio Alger Jr.
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8728133021
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Ragged Dick written by Horatio Alger Jr. and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a lowly shoeshine boy called Dick make his way up the ladder to bigger and better things or is he destined to be poor for his whole life? This classic rags-to-riches story follows young Dick Hunter’s life in New York City from his position as a lowly shoeshine boy to his rise through society. Wildly popular long after it was first published, 'Ragged Dick' is the first story in Horatio Alger Jr. famous series. Dick's confidence, determination, and great sense of humour help him a lot in life, especially with his encounters with people good and bad alike. Horatio Alger Jr. (1832-1899) was an American writer who worked predominantly in the young adult genre. His protagonists are often boys who undergo tremendous transformations and whose humble origins at the beginning are contrasted with their successful careers at the end of their journeys. Among his many novels, the most important ones are 'Ragged Dick', 'Fame and Fortune', 'Rough and Ready', and 'Adrift in New York'. A 1982 musical, Shine!, was based on Alger's work, particularly Ragged Dick and Silas Snobden's Office Boy.
Author : Horatio Alger
Publisher : Double 9 Books
ISBN 13 : 9789358595758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Fame And Fortune; Or, The Progress Of Richard Hunter 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: Fame and Fortune is a 19th-century American rags-to-riches novel by Horatio Alger, Jr. The story follows Richard Hunter, a young boy who comes to New York City from the country with nothing but a few dollars in his pocket. Richard is determined to make something of himself, and he soon finds work as a bootblack. Through hard work and determination, Richard eventually becomes a successful businessman. Along the way, he learns the value of honesty, integrity, and compassion. The novel is a classic American story of hope and opportunity. It is a reminder that anyone, regardless of their circumstances, can achieve great things if they are willing to work hard and never give up on their dreams. The book is still popular today, and it has been adapted into several films and television shows. The characters in the novel are relatable and believable. Richard Hunter is a sympathetic protagonist who readers can root for. The other characters in the story are also well-developed and believable. The plot is exciting and suspenseful. The story is full of twists and turns that keep readers guessing until the very end. The themes of hard work, determination, and compassion are timeless and universal. These themes resonate with readers of all ages.
