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Round the Block

Round the Block

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Number of Chapters: 83

Length: 18 hours and 06 minutes

Language: English

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)

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