{"product_id":"mark-the-match-boy-horatio-alger","title":"Mark the Match Boy — Horatio Alger Jr.","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"display:inline-block;background-color:#f0ebe3;color:#8b7355;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.03em;text-transform:uppercase;padding:8px 16px;border-radius:16px;margin:0 0 18px 0;\"\u003e🎧 Includes the full unabridged audiobook (LibriVox recording) along with the ePub.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:0.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px 0;\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMark Manton is a small, thinly dressed match boy who must hand over his day's money to Mother Watson, a drunken woman who has charge of him and beats him when he comes home with too little. Richard Hunter, once Ragged Dick and now a rising young clerk, finds Mark collapsed in the street, takes him home and makes him his ward. Mark gets a place in a bookstore, where he comes under suspicion when money goes missing. Meanwhile Dick is searching New York for the lost grandson of a wealthy Milwaukee man, Mr. Bates.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1869, \u003cem\u003eMark the Match Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is the third book of the Ragged Dick Series. It brings back Dick, Fosdick, Micky Maguire and Roswell Crawford from the earlier books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAudiobook:\u003c\/strong\u003e unabridged LibriVox recording read by Tori Faulder, about 3 hours 54 minutes, in MP3 format (13 files plus one \"download all\" ZIP).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEPUB:\u003c\/strong\u003e complete text with a clickable table of contents, the frontispiece and one illustration from early editions. The Art Nouveau cover illustration was made for this edition with AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"nile-audio-preview\" style=\"margin-top:24px;padding:18px;border:1px solid #d9cdbd;border-radius:10px;background:#faf8f4;\"\u003e\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px;\"\u003eListen to a preview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003caudio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-53071_preview.mp3?v=1792679704\"\u003eYour browser does not support audio playback.\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;color:#6b6258;margin:8px 0 0;\"\u003eA genuine sample from the included audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"nile-epub-preview\" style=\"margin-top:24px;padding:18px;border:1px solid #d9cdbd;border-radius:10px;background:#faf8f4;\"\u003e\u003ch3 style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.04em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#8b7355;margin:0 0 10px;\"\u003eRead an EPUB preview\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin:0;padding-left:16px;border-left:3px solid #b79b75;color:#403a34;line-height:1.65;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Fosdick,” said Richard Hunter, “what was the name of that man who owed your father two thousand dollars, which he never paid him?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Hiram Bates,” answered Fosdick, in some surprise. “What made you think of him?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I thought I remembered the name. He moved out West, didn’t he?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“So I heard at the time.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-size:13px;color:#6b6258;margin:10px 0 0;\"\u003eA genuine excerpt from the included EPUB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n","brand":"Nile Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67770870366456,"sku":"EN-53071","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/EN-53071-nouveau.jpg?v=1792679773","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/ar\/products\/mark-the-match-boy-horatio-alger","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}