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In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, 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)

Round the Block by John Bell Bouton (1830 - 1902‪)‬ LibriVox

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In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, 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)

    Book 1 Chapter 1 The Block

    Book 1 Chapter 1 The Block

    • 8 min.
    Book 1 Chapter 2 Three Bachelors

    Book 1 Chapter 2 Three Bachelors

    • 22 min.
    Book 1 Chapter 3 Peeps

    Book 1 Chapter 3 Peeps

    • 15 min.
    Book 1 Chapter 4 Quigg

    Book 1 Chapter 4 Quigg

    • 12 min.
    Book 1 Chapter 5 Pleasure as Business

    Book 1 Chapter 5 Pleasure as Business

    • 6 min.
    Book 1 Chapter 6 Something Hidden

    Book 1 Chapter 6 Something Hidden

    • 18 min.

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