"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 weal[...]
This quintessential novel of adventure, romance, and coming of age is also an exhilarating tale of one boy's metamorphosis from dirty street urchin to gentleman. Reissue.[...]