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Mark the Match Boy
Jr. Horatio Alger
Book Overview:
In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse guardian. But, with new friends, hard work, and smart choices, Mark may just find his luck taking a turn for the better.
In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse guardian. But, with new friends, hard work, and smart choices, Mark may just find his luck taking a turn for the better.
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"Who is this young man?" said the broker, looking at Fosdick. "He is not a son of yours I think?"
"No; I am not fortunate enough to have a son. He is a young friend who wants a little business done in your line and, I have accordingly brought him to you."
"We will do our best for him. What is it?"
"He wants to purchase twenty shares in some good city bank. I used to know all about such matters when I lived in the city, but I am out of the way of such knowledge now."
"Twenty shares, you said?"
"Yes."
"It happens quite oddly that a party brought in only fifteen minutes since twenty shares in the —— Bank to dispose of. It is a good bank, and I [44] don't know that he can do any better than take them."
"Yes, it is a good bank. What interest does it pay now?"
"Eight per cent."[2]
"That is go. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
All boys should read Alger in their formative years.
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.