# Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward

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- Book: [Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr/ragged-dick-and-struggling-upward) ([Ragged Dick and Struggling Upward.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr/ragged-dick-and-struggling-upward.md))
- Authors: [Horatio Alger](https://www.bookquiver.com/horatio-alger-jr), [Carl Bode](https://www.bookquiver.com/carl-bode)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4039-033-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 1985-01-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the 1860's through the 1890s, Horatio Alger wrote hundreds of novels to teach young boys the merits of honesty, hard work, and cheerfulness in the face of adversity. As Carl Bode points out in his...