This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...manufacture of new styles of furniture, and the enterprise promises to be profitable beyond anticipation. As becomes a man who is largest shareholder and chief director in an important corporation, he has already moved away from the tenement to (I use his phrase) more luxurious quarters. Such a man (here I use ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...manufacture of new styles of furniture, and the enterprise promises to be profitable beyond anticipation. As becomes a man who is largest shareholder and chief director in an important corporation, he has already moved away from the tenement to (I use his phrase) more luxurious quarters. Such a man (here I use Jane's phraseology) has chances and is considered a catch. Jane holds that a bird in the hand is a bird, and that a bird in the bush is an optical illusion. Despite the reign of topsy-turvydom and excitement of the pre-nuptial days, Jane, who has not gone down-town for the last week, sleeps tranquilly until ten o'clock. She is accommodating herself to the new life gradually. At the church ceremony there will be present only the immediate family, the Vogels, --Ida insisted upon Adolph, and the attendance of the father was requested from the mere fitness of things, --and two friends of Rounds, one of whom is the foreman of the new factory. After the service we shall have a wedding supper in our apartment, where all our friends in the tenement have been requested to present themselves. Rounds will pay for all the expenses of the feast, and he desires it to be elegant, cost to be regarded. Jane secured a printed invitation from the stationery department of the store, and she copied the form in handwriting. Ida argued that the action was silly to a degree, since most of the guests were unable to read English. Jane contended that this very objection enhanced the value of the invitations, inasmuch as good form ever impresses those most who know least. There was a battle royal when the time for posting them came. Ida was appalled at the extravagance of mailing letters to people who dwelt in the same building. Ida had the best of the argument, but...
Read Less
Add this copy of Poor People: a Novel to cart. $75.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by Houghton, Mifflin and Company.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. First edition. Illustrated gray cloth stamped in orange and black attributed to B. W-T. Slightly bowed with tide marks and staining on the boards else good only.
