Podcast Cover

Round the Block

General Fiction Genre
Episodes & Posts
Episodes
Posts

    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...

    show more
    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)
    show less
    Contacts
    Information

    Looks like you don't have any active episode

    Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

    Current

    Podcast Cover

    Looks like you don't have any episodes in your queue

    Browse Spreaker Catalogue to discover great new content

    Next Up

    Episode Cover Episode Cover

    It's so quiet here...

    Time to discover new episodes!

    Discover
    Your Library
    Search