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The Story of a Bad Boy (1870) is a semi-autobiographical novel by American writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich, fictionalizing his experiences as a boy in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature, though the text's opening lines admit that he was "not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy".
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- 1870
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- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- English
- 1870
- The Story of a Bad Boy
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Feb 25, 2006 · This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make.
Complete summary of Thomas Bailey Aldrich's The Story of a Bad Boy. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Story of a Bad Boy.
A fictionalized account of the author's own childhood, The Story of a Bad Boy was controversial when it first appeared in 1869, but is now hailed as the precursor to other 'bad boy' stories such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. It stands in its own right as a hugely enjoyable tale.
The Story of a Bad Boy, classic children’s novel by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, published serially in Our Young Folks (1869) and in book form in 1870. An autobiographical book about a happy boyhood, it was the first full-length children’s book in which the protagonist was a realistic boy instead of a.
