Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward (Penguin Classics)
 

Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward (Penguin Classics)

by Horatio Alger Jr.

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 responded 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, ... (read more)

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by-the-bootstrap success stories of a plucky street orphans in the 1800s. NOT porn.

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