Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger - 图书 - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781539432968 - 2016年10月9日
如封面与标题不符,以标题为准

Ragged Dick

Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The tale follows a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability in 19th-century New York City. The book Ragged Dick begins by looking at Ragged Dick through the lenses of 1860s New York and Alger's own life there. Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious "to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable." He won't steal under any circumstances, and many gentlemen who are impressed with this virtue (and his determination to succeed) offer their aid. Mr. Greyson, for example, invites him to church and Mr. Whitney gives him five dollars for performing a service. Dick uses the money to open a bank account and to rent his first apartment. He fattens his bank account by practicing frugality and is tutored by his roommate Fosdick in the three R's. When Dick rescues a drowning child, the grateful father rewards him with a new suit and a job in his mercantile firm. With this final event, Richard is "cut off from the old vagabond life which he hoped never to resume" and henceforth will call himself Richard Hunter, Esq The Alger canon is described by Carl Bode of the University of Maryland as "bouncy little books for boys" that promote "the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in adversity." Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Timeless Classics for Your Bookshelf
Classic Books for Your Inspiration and Entertainment Visit Us at: goo.gl/0oisZU

介质类型 图书     Paperback Book   (平装胶订图书)
已发行 2016年10月9日
ISBN13 9781539432968
出版商 Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
页数 172
商品尺寸 152 × 229 × 9 mm   ·   235 g
语言 英语  

Horatio Alger的更多作品

显示全部

同系列推荐