{"product_id":"ragged-dick-horatio-alger","title":"Ragged Dick — Horatio Alger Jr.","description":"\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;\"\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin:0;padding-left:16px;border-left:3px solid #b79b75;color:#403a34;line-height:1.65;;display:block;column-count:1;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wake up there, youngster,” said a rough voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRagged Dick opened his eyes slowly, and stared stupidly in the face of the speaker, but did not offer to get up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wake up, you young vagabond!” said the man a little impatiently; “I suppose you’d lay there all day, if I hadn’t called you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What time is it?” asked Dick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Seven o’clock.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Seven o’clock! I oughter’ve been up an hour ago. I know what ’twas made me so precious sleepy. I went to the Old Bowery last night, and didn’t turn in till past twelve.”\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\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\u003eHoratio Alger's most famous book. Dick is a young boot-black who sleeps in boxes and doorways on the streets of 1860s New York. He is cheerful, quick-witted and honest, and after a chance meeting with a well-off young visitor he decides to \"grow up 'spectable.\" The story follows him as he saves his money, rents his first room, learns to read and write with his friend Fosdick, and works his way off the street.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1868, \u003cem\u003eRagged Dick\u003c\/em\u003e was a best-seller and the first of the six-book Ragged Dick series. Its picture of New York's newsboys and boot-blacks was drawn, as Alger says in his preface, from personal observation and from facts supplied by the Superintendent of the Newsboys' Lodging House, and its title became shorthand for the American \"rags to riches\" story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook:\u003c\/strong\u003e unabridged LibriVox recording read by Alys AtteWater, about 4 hours 38 minutes, in MP3 format (13 chapter 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 Art Nouveau cover illustration was made for this edition with AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n","brand":"Nile Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67702608756984,"sku":"EN-5348","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-5348-nouveau.jpg?v=1792208582","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/products\/ragged-dick-horatio-alger","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}