The Story of a Bad Boy

The Story of a Bad Boy is a book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.  It is based in part on his life as a boy in New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature. The story was first published in parts (serialization) in 1869 in the magazine Our Young Folks.Goodman, Susan. Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925. University Press of New England, 2011: 142. ISBN 978-1-58465-985-3 It was published in book form in 1870.

References

Other websites
The Story of a Bad Boy at Project Gutenberg
The Story of a Bad Boy at Internet Archive 
Aldrich House  at Strawbery Banke,

Category:1869 books
Category:Books first published in serial form
Category:American children's books