Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward - Brossura

Alger, Horatio

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1481259385 ISBN 13: 9781481259385

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Riassunto

From street urchin to self-made gentleman—meet the original American dreamer.

Before the rags-to-riches story became a cliché, it was Ragged Dick—Horatio Alger’s timeless tale of grit, virtue, and transformation in the bustling streets of 1850s New York City. In this inspiring and vividly detailed novel, we meet Dick, a streetwise newsboy with a tattered coat, a sharp tongue, and a heart of gold. He gambles, he smokes, and he sleeps wherever he can—but he’s honest, hardworking, and fiercely loyal to his friends.

Dick doesn’t steal, cheat, or exploit others. Instead, with determination, self-respect, and a little bit of luck, he slowly builds a better life—saving his pennies, educating himself, and seizing opportunities that come his way. Over the course of the story, we watch Ragged Dick grow into Richard Hunter, Gentleman—not through sudden wealth or privilege, but through the values of persistence, integrity, and ambition.

Filled with vibrant descriptions of New York City’s streets, characters, and scams, Ragged Dick is as much a portrait of 19th-century urban life as it is a character study. Whether he’s learning to wash his face, opening his first savings account, or dodging the schemes of swindlers, Dick’s journey is both entertaining and deeply human.

Horatio Alger’s writing sparked the imagination of generations of readers with its hopeful message: Success is not about where you start, but who you choose to become. More than a century later, Ragged Dick remains a compelling reminder that decency, perseverance, and vision can carry anyone far.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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. A prolific author, Alger was best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of respectable middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. He initially wrote and published for adults, but a friendship with boys' author William Taylor Adams led him to writing for the young. He published for years in Adams's Student and Schoolmate, a boys' magazine of moral writings. His lifelong theme of "rags to respectability" had a profound impact on America in the Gilded Age. His works gained even greater popularity following his death, but gradually lost reader interest in the 1920s. Gary Scharnhorst, author of Horatio Alger, Jr., describes Alger's style as "anachronistic", "often laughable", "distinctive", and "distinguished by the quality of its literary allusions." These allusions are what set his work apart from the pulps, Scharnhorst opines, and include the Bible, Shakespeare (in half his books), John Milton, Longfellow, Cicero, Horace, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, and many others. "By the diversity of his allusions," Scharnhorst writes, "Alger ... both revealed his erudition and enhanced the literary quality of his work." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1481259385
• ISBN 13: 9781481259385
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 130
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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