{"product_id":"fame-and-fortune-horatio-alger","title":"Fame and Fortune — Horatio Alger Jr.","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display:inline-block;background-color:#f0ebe3;color:#8b7355;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.03em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:8px 16px;border-radius:16px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e🎧 Includes the full unabridged audiobook (LibriVox recording) along with the ePub.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px 0;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRagged Dick is a street boot-black no longer. Now calling himself Richard Hunter, he has rooms in a respectable boarding-house with his friend Henry Fosdick, money in the savings bank and his first real job, in the counting-room of a merchant named Mr. Rockwell. His rise makes enemies: a jealous book-keeper, the snobbish Roswell Crawford, and his old street rival Micky Maguire. When a stolen pocket-book is slipped into Dick's pocket, he is marched off to the station-house and has to clear his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1868, \u003cem\u003eFame and Fortune\u003c\/em\u003e is the second book of the Ragged Dick Series and follows straight on from \u003cem\u003eRagged Dick\u003c\/em\u003e. Alger wrote in his preface that the series drew on his own observation of New York's street children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook:\u003c\/strong\u003e unabridged LibriVox recording read by Alys AtteWater and Barry Eads, about 4 hours 34 minutes, in MP3 format (23 files plus one \"download all\" ZIP).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEPUB:\u003c\/strong\u003e complete text with a clickable table of contents, the illustrated title and three illustrations from the 1868 Loring edition. The Art Nouveau cover illustration was made for this edition with AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"nile-audio-preview\" style=\"margin-top:24px;padding:18px;border:1px solid #d9cdbd;border-radius:10px;background:#faf8f4;\"\u003e\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px;\"\u003eListen to a preview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-21632_preview.mp3?v=1792679704\"\u003eYour browser does not support audio playback.\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;color:#6b6258;margin:8px 0 0;\"\u003eA genuine sample from the included audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"nile-epub-preview\" style=\"margin-top:24px;padding:18px;border:1px solid #d9cdbd;border-radius:10px;background:#faf8f4;\"\u003e\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px;\"\u003eRead an EPUB preview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin:0;padding-left:16px;border-left:3px solid #b79b75;color:#403a34;line-height:1.65;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Well, Fosdick, this is a little better than our old room in Mott Street,” said Richard Hunter, looking complacently about him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“You’re right, Dick,” said his friend. “This carpet’s rather nicer than the ragged one Mrs. Mooney supplied us with. The beds are neat and comfortable, and I feel better satisfied, even if we do have to pay twice as much for it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;color:#6b6258;margin:10px 0 0;\"\u003eA genuine excerpt from the included EPUB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n","brand":"Nile Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67770867450104,"sku":"EN-21632","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-21632-nouveau.jpg?v=1792679754","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/products\/fame-and-fortune-horatio-alger","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}