Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks Annotated

Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is a Bildungsroman by using Horatio Alger Jr., which turned into serialized in Student and Schoolmate in 1867 and elevated for guide as a full-duration novel in May 1868 by using the publisher A. K. Loring. It changed into the first volume within the six-volume Ragged Dick Series and have become Alger's best-promoting work. The story follows a negative bootblack's upward thrust to middle-elegance respectability in 19th-century New York City. It had a positive reception. Student and Schoolmate stated their readers have been extremely joyful with the primary installment, and Putnam's Magazine thought boys would like the novel. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's next novels and became the difficulty of parodies and satires