Ragged Dick: or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks
Horatio Alger Jr.
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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A New York bootblack who sleeps in a box on Spruce Street is given a start by a stranger, opens a savings account, learns to read and write, and moves from rags to a clerk's collar. Alger wrote over a hundred of these and this was the one that made the pattern; the phrase "Horatio Alger story" comes from here. What is easy to forget is how exactly he reports the city — the lodging houses, the fares, the confidence tricks and what a boy earned in a day. Forty-eight plates by painters including John Sloan and James McNeill Whistler trace the city after dark, from Bleecker Street to Greenwich Village, matching Alger's own nighttime streets.
A New York bootblack who sleeps in a box on Spruce Street is given a start by a stranger, opens a savings account, learns to read and write, and moves from rags to a clerk's collar. Alger wrote over a hundred of these and this was the one that made the pattern; the phrase "Horatio Alger story" co...
About the author
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899) was a Unitarian minister who left his pulpit in disgrace and moved to New York, where he attached himself to the Newsboys' Lodging House and wrote a hundred books in which a poor boy rises by luck and pluck. He gave away most of what he earned to the boys themselves.
Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899) was a Unitarian minister who left his pulpit in disgrace and moved to New York, where he attached himself to the Newsboys' Lodging House and wrote a hundred books in which a poor boy rises by luck and pluck. He gave away most of what he earned to the boys themselves.
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