In this sequel to Ragged Dick, the former bootblack now calls himself Richard Hunter, lodges in a Bleecker Street boarding-house and makes his start in mercantile life. Jealous Roswell Crawford, the scheming James Gilbert, a store on Sixth Avenue and a trap that lands Dick in a station-house all stand between him and the respectable life he wants.
First serialized in the Boston juvenile magazine Schoolmate, it continues one of the defining American rags-to-riches stories. Download the free EPUB.