Contents
- Preface
- The Text of Ragged Dick
- Original Cover Illustration
- Contexts
- ALGER ON HIS ART AND LIFE
- "Friar Anselmo" * New York Weekly, August 5, 1872
- "Are My Boys Real?" * Ladies Home Journal, November 1890
- Edward G. Alcorn * "Advice from Horatio Alger, Jr." (The Writer, January 1892)
- "Writing Stories for Boys" * The Writer, March 1896
- THE NEW YORK CITY BACKGROUND
- Map of Lower Manhattan, 1868
- Map of Three Points
- F.J. Ottarson * From "New York and Its People" (The Galaxy. A Magazine of Entertaining Reading, May 1, 1867)
- James D. McCabe, Jr. * "Street Children" (From Lights and Shadows of New York Life, 1872)
- Edward Crapsey * "Outcast Children" (From The Nether Side of New York, 1872)
- Charles Loring * "Homeless Boys" (From The Dangerous Classes of New York, 1880)
- Illustration * (Photograph of two boys)
- Illustration * (Photograph of three sleeping boys)
- Illustration * Frontispiece of the Children's Aid Society Annual Reports (1873-1890)
- Jacob Riis * From How the Other Half Lives
- Illustration * 1874 Cartoon (Irish World)
- John Higham * Illustration (From Strangers in a Strange Land)
- Clark Kider * From "Orphan Trains and Their Precious Cargo"
- Criticism
- CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
- From "Tangled Thread" * Serialized Review of Ragged Dick (November 1866-November 1869)
- "Ragged Dick" * Putnam's Magazine, July 7, 1868
- WHO SHOULD READ ALGER?: ALGER AND THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
- Charles C. Cutter * "The Public Library and Its Choice of Books" (Boston Advertiser, February 12, 1878)
- S.S. Green * "Sensational Fiction in Public Libraries" (Library Journal, September-October 1879)
- Peccator * "As to Novel Reading—A Confession" (Library Journal, March 1880)
- Green * "Class Adaptation in the Selection of Books—The Fiction Question" (Library Journal, May 1880)
- Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vermont Report * As printed in Library Journal, 1881
- Young Men's Association, Buffalo, New York Report * As printed in Library Journal, 1881
- "Books for Young People" * Christian Union, May 1883
- ALGER'S LEGACY: PARODIES AND RESPONSES
- Stephen Crane * "A Self-Made Man" (Cornhill Magazine, March 1899)
- Gilbert W. Gabriel * "The Alger Complex" (The New Yorker, August 8, 1925)
- James Thurber * "Tom the Young Kidnapper, or Pay Up and Live" (The New Yorker, June 10, 1933)
- Leroi Jones * "The Death of Horatio Alger" (Tales, 1967)
- Victor Wilson * "Legendary Alger Was A Homosexual" (The Miami Herald, January 23, 1972)
- Gary Scharnhorst * "Demythologizing Alger"
- CRITICAL ESSAYS
- Mary Roth Walsh * "Selling the Self-Made Woman"
- Glenn Hendler * "Pandering in the Public Sphere: Masculinity and the Market in Horatio Alger"
- Michael Moon * "'The Gentle Boy from the Dangerous Classes'": Pederasty, Domesticity, and Capitalism in Horatio Alger"
- Hildegard Hoeller * "Freaks and the American Dream: Horatio Alger, P. T. Barnum, and the Art of Humbug"
- Horatio Alger, Jr.: A Chronology
- Selected Bibliography
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