Round the Block

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - General Fiction

Authors: John Bell Bouton In Year : 1864

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Round the Block

Book 1 Chapter 1 The Block
Book 1 Chapter 2 Three Bachelors
Book 1 Chapter 3 Peeps
Book 1 Chapter 4 Quigg
Book 1 Chapter 5 Pleasure as Business
Book 1 Chapter 6 Something Hidden
Book 1 Chapter 7 The Boy Bog
Book 1 Chapter 8 Maltboy\'s Twentieth Affair
Book 1 Chapter 9 Mrs. Slapman at Home
Book 1 Chapter 10 Infirmities of Genius
Book 2 Chapter 1 The Enigma
Book 2 Chapter 2 A Delicate Proposition
Book 2 Chapter 3 An Auxiliary of Modern Civilization
Book 2 Chapter 4 Miss Pillbody
Book 2 Chapter 5 A Friend in Need
Book 2 Chapter 6 Branching Out
Book 2 Chapter 7 The Little Pupil
Book 3 Chapter 1 "One-Two-Three-Four"
Book 3 Chapter 2 The Falling Board
Book 3 Chapter 3 Sneaking Justified
Book 3 Chapter 4 Up in the Air
Book 3 Chapter 5 Tongues of Fire
Book 4 Chapter 1 Myndert Van Quintem and Son
Book 4 Chapter 2 Buying Good Behavior
Book 4 Chapter 3 The Young Monster
Book 4 Chapter 4 Wesley Tiffles
Book 4 Chapter 5 The Panorama of Africa
Book 5 Chapter 1 Stolen - More Than a Purse
Book 5 Chapter 2 Consolations of High Art
Book 5 Chapter 3 Loving Afar Off
Book 5 Chapter 4 Legerdemain
Book 6 Chapter 1 The Unknown Hand
Book 6 Chapter 2 In Vain - In Vain
Book 6 Chapter 3 The Clashing Orbs
Book 6 Chapter 4 A Vision of Horrors
Book 6 Chapter 5 What the Morning Brought
Book 7 Chapter 1 Pea-Shooting as a Science
Book 7 Chapter 2 By Steam
Book 7 Chapter 3 Pigworth, J.P.
Book 7 Chapter 4 Stoop
Book 7 Chapter 5 An Audience Analyzed
Book 7 Chapter 6 Humors of the Many-Headed
Book 7 Chapter 7 Scenes Not in the Bills
Book 8 Chapter 1 The Overture
Book 8 Chapter 2 Curtain Up
Book 8 Chapter 3 Act Second
Book 8 Chapter 4 How the Play Ended
Book 9 Chapter 1 Coroner and Jury
Book 9 Chapter 2 Statement of the Prisoner
Book 9 Chapter 3 Justice Goes to Dinner
Book 9 Chapter 4 Light in the Prison
Book 9 Chapter 5 The Sorrow of White Hairs
Book 9 Chapter 6 What Paper, Types, and Ink Can Do
Book 9 Chapter 7 Pet as a Witness
Book 9 Chapter 8 The Beneficence of Fire Bells
Book 9 Chapter 9 An Old Man\'s Offering
Book 10 Chapter 1 A Fisher of Men
Book 10 Chapter 2 Playing with the Line
Book 10 Chapter 3 Pulling In
Book 10 Chapter 4 The First of May
Book 10 Chapter 5 Demolition of Certain Air Castles
Book 10 Chapter 6 Mr. Whedell\'s Creditors in Convention Assembled
Book 10 Chapter 7 Deus ex Machina
Book 11 Chapter 1 The Old House Revisited
Book 11 Chapter 2 A Posthumous Secret
Book 11 Chapter 3 Overtop Finds a Sensible Woman
Book 11 Chapter 4 Innocence on a Slippery Road
Book 11 Chapter 5 Bog\'s Open Seseme
Book 11 Chapter 6 Tracked
Book 11 Chapter 7 Found and Lost
Book 12 Chapter 1 The \"Cosmopolitan Window Fastener\"
Book 12 Chapter 2 Middle-Aged Cupid
Book 12 Chapter 3 Slapman vs. Slapman
Book 12 Chapter 4 How Overman Sealed a Contract in a Way Unknown to Chitty
Book 12 Chapter 5 A Returned Californian
Book 12 Chapter 6 Revelations of a Laugh
Book 13 Chapter 1 A Story of the Past
Book 13 Chapter 2 Possible Love
Book 13 Chapter 3 Uncle and Niece
Book 14 Chapter 1 Owners of the Beautiful
Book 14 Chapter 2 The Last of a Mystery
Book 14 Chapter 3 Love Crowned
Book 14 Chapter 4 Five Years

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)