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A ragged plot

by Richard Barth

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Published by Dial Press in New York, N.Y .
Written in

    Places:
  • New York (N.Y.),
  • New York (State),
  • New York
    • Subjects:
    • Binton, Margaret (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.,
    • Women detectives -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.,
    • New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.

    • Edition Notes

      StatementRichard Barth.
      Classifications
      LC ClassificationsPS3552.A755 R3
      The Physical Object
      Pagination217 p. ;
      Number of Pages217
      ID Numbers
      Open LibraryOL4110910M
      ISBN 100803700539
      LC Control Number80025878
      OCLC/WorldCa6916152

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      Ragged Dick and Mark the Match Boy, by Horatio Alger, is a book intended for young boys. The author, a late nineteenth century writer, is concerned with social values and steering boys into a healthy and good life. His books tell the typical rags to riches story of the poor boy who studies and works hard, lives a clean life and becomes successful. A Ragged Plot. Author: Richard Barth. Series: The Margaret Binton series #2. Narrator: Roslyn Alexander. Unabridged: 7 hr 5 min Format: Digital Audiobook Publisher: Recorded Books. Published: 12/02/ Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective/5(4).

        Last month, on the anniversary of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' publication, the actor Ricky Tomlinson caused another spike in sales when he praised the book on BBC1's One Show.   Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Ragged Dick, Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks by Jr. Horatio Alger - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg.


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Ragged Dick, New York: Street and Smith Corporation, Reprint of original text Hero Ragged Dick is a homeless fourteen-year-old bootblack, known to be an honest young man. He is generous and industrious, but he is a spendthrift.

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Ragged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks by Horatio Alger, Jr. is a Bildungsroman, or coming-of-age novel. It was first published in serialized form in in Student and Schoolmate. It became a full-length novel in The book became the first volume of six that make up Alger’s Ragged Dick series, his most successful work.

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