Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ragged Dick
Well known Alger story, even if not great literature. Received a favorable review in Putnam's Magazine, Second Volume, July-December 1868, page 120 http://books.google.com/books?id=b8Yi4a8WdYQC&pg=RA1-PA631&dq=%22ragged+dick%22&as_brr=0&ei=vVrjRtOBBqegowL61KCRCw#PPA120,M1. " A Hunt on Snow Shoes"  (1906) by Edward Ellishttp://books.google.com/books?id=eUgCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=%22ragged+dick%22&as_brr=1&ei=InPjRu6yK43goAKF5pSqCw says this was the book that made Alger famous (p366), and that 200,000 copies had sold by 1906. "Growing Up Postmodern," edited by Ronald Strickland, (2002), page 53 http://books.google.com/books?id=oxsj7-aTN9IC&pg=PA53&dq=%22ragged+dick%22&as_brr=0&ei=vVrjRtOBBqegowL61KCRCw&sig=GyBWRGacB_4rCh6GFkdf0eCtnkM#PPA53,M1 has substantial discussion of the book. Also analyzed in "Intimate and authentic economies," by Tom Nissley, (2002) http://books.google.com/books?id=knZubBDd7SMC&pg=PA78&dq=%22ragged+dick%22&as_brr=0&ei=vVrjRtOBBqegowL61KCRCw&sig=f2_g57JGEN5NBfwMXGckmKfCGQo  pp 78-80. See also at FindArticles  McGlinn, Jeanne "Rags to Riches: The Horatio Alger Theme in Adolescent Novels about the Immigrant Experience". ALAN Review. Summer 2004. FindArticles.com. 08 Sep. 2007. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4063/is_200407/ai_n9456945. Britannica gives this novel prominemce in their online article about Alger; see http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9005694/Horatio-Alger. These cites, only a small fraction of what can be found at Google Books http://books.google.com/books?as_q=%22ragged+dick%22&num=10&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_libcat=0&as_brr=0&as_vt=&as_auth=&as_pub=&as_sub=&as_drrb=c&as_miny=&as_maxy=&as_isbn=, amply satisfy . Remarkable longevity of notability, besides selling a lot of books over many years
— User:Edison, 02:40, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
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