{"product_id":"rough-and-ready-horatio-alger","title":"Rough and Ready — 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\u003eRufus, known to the other newsboys as Rough and Ready, sells papers outside the \u003cem\u003eTimes\u003c\/em\u003e office in Printing-House Square. He works to keep himself and his little sister Rose, and to keep her away from their drunken stepfather, James Martin, who once took and sold the clothes Rufus had bought her. Rufus moves Rose to a safe home with a kind seamstress and sleeps at the Newsboys' Lodging House himself. Then Martin finds Rose and carries her off, and Rufus and his friend Ben set out to find her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1869, \u003cem\u003eRough and Ready; or, Life Among the New York Newsboys\u003c\/em\u003e is the fourth book of the Ragged Dick Series. Its story continues in \u003cem\u003eRufus and Rose\u003c\/em\u003e, also available at Nile Book Store.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook:\u003c\/strong\u003e unabridged LibriVox recording read by Tori Faulder, about 4 hours 13 minutes, in MP3 format (13 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 frontispiece and two illustrations from the 1897 Porter \u0026amp; Coates 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-55142_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\u003eOn the sidewalk in front of the “Times” office, facing Printing-House Square, stood a boy of fifteen, with a pile of morning papers under his arm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Herald,’ ‘Times,’ ‘Tribune,’ ‘World’!” he vociferated, with a quick glance at each passer-by.\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":67770872004856,"sku":"EN-55142","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-55142-nouveau.jpg?v=1792679786","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/products\/rough-and-ready-horatio-alger","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}