The Story of a Bad Boy

The Story of a Bad Boy

First edition title page
Author	Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Original title	The Story of a Bad Boy
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Semi-autobiographical novel
Publisher	Fields, Osgood, & Co.
Publication date	1870
Media type	Print

The Story of a Bad Boy is a book by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. It is based in part on his life as a boy in New Hampshire. The book is considered the first in the "bad boy" genre of literature. The story was first published in parts (serialization) in 1869 in the magazine Our Young Folks. It was published in book form in 1870.

References

Other websites

• The Story of a Bad Boy at Project Gutenberg
• The Story of a Bad Boy at Internet Archive
• Aldrich House Archived 2012-04-20 at the Wayback Machine at Strawbery Banke,

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