Charles Dickens he's not.

Alger creó unos personajes caracterizados por su lucha contra la pobreza y por su bondad. Es posible que allá por el siglo XIX finales personas como Alger pudieron ayudar a salir adelante a otros jovenes que se hallaban en una situación clara de pobreza y necesidad.
Alger created a universe in which

its terrible. but it gives a glimpse of new york before the brooklyn bridge when it was more like new dehli. gives a few histories of neighborhoods, and above all a revolting and saccheriney waspish veiw of destiny

Horatio Alger is not good. What is good in this edition is the introduction by Rychard Fink. (Yes. Rychard Fink.) In it, he describes how Horatio Alger is not good, but he is important in American culture. What is more, Fink says that if you read these two, you pretty much understand all there is to

These are two young adult novels published in the late 1860s, and though they are as simple and as didactic as one might expect from novels of that era, there's nothing else like them for opening a window on the life of street children in nineteenth century New York.

In the first novel, Ragged Dick,

The best way to indoctrinate your helpless little kids into the American Dream.

This is like a PG version of the Little Rascals. You go little guy! It makes me feel bad about blowin' my childhood cash on anything things like G.I. Joes and Big League Chew while I could have been saving money and plotting to exploit Honduran children when I got older.