In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel’s circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam – plenty of flimflam. This richly-charactered novel, told with Dickensian brio, offers a fascinating slice of life, vivid in detail, of the bustling big-city habits and mores of America shortly before the Civil War. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)(
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● ISBN 9783962722081 ● 出版者 Otbebookpublishing ● 发布时间 2017 ● 下载 3 时 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6648816 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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