 Title page for The Story of a Bad Boy, 1870 | |
| Author | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 1870 |
| Publication place | USA |
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".