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Ragged Dick PHOTOGRAPHY The book made Audrey’s motherRagged Dick; or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks is arguably the best known of Horatio Algers American rags to riches stories. It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive Contexts section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how and why Alger used the backdrop of New York City to highlight problems of urban poverty, immigration, and child labor