[Download] "Round the Block: An American Novel" by John Bell Bouton * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free

📘 Read Now     📥 Download

eBook details

• Title: Round the Block: An American Novel
• Author : John Bell Bouton
• Release Date : January 31, 2017
• Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1467 KB

Description

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)(

Ebook Free Online "Round the Block: An American Novel" PDF ePub Kindle