Mark, the match boy, or, Richard Hunter's ward
By: Horatio Alger, Jr.
Series: Polyglot Press Alger series
Publisher: Polyglot Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Orphans -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Mark, the match boy; Richard Hunter's ward
Description: After leaving the ill-tempered woman with whom he lives, ten-year-old matchboy Mark Manton meets a man who recognizes something of himself in the young orphan and helps him rise above his lowly circumstances.
Notes: First published in 1869 by Loring, Boston.