The Mucker - Edgar Rice Burroughs - Livres - Wildside Press - 9781592245741 - 2004
Si la couverture et le titre ne correspondent pas, le titre est correct.

The Mucker

Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Mucker

Billy Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce a bartender whom Billy knew not by his first name. And, in proportion to their number which was considerably less, he knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men equally as well, but not so pleasantly. His kindergarten education had commenced in an alley back of a feed-store. Here a gang of older boys and men were wont to congregate at such times as they had naught else to occupy their time, and as the bridewell was the only place in which they ever held a job for more than a day or two, they had considerable time to devote to congregating. They were pickpockets and second-story men, made and in the making, and all were muckers, ready to insult the first woman who passed, or pick a quarrel with any stranger who did not appear too burly. By night they plied their real vocations. By day they sat in the alley behind the feedstore and drank beer from a battered tin pail. The question of labor involved in transporting the pail, empty, to the saloon across the street, and returning it, full, to the alley back of the feed-store was solved by the presence of admiring and envious little boys of the neighborhood who hung, wide-eyed and thrilled, about these heroes of their childish lives. Billy Byrne, at six, was rushing the can for this noble band, and incidentally picking up his knowledge of life and the rudiments of his education. By the time he became an adult, he was another thing entirely. . . .

Médias Livres     Hardcover Book   (Livre avec dos et couverture rigide)
Validé 2004
ISBN13 9781592245741
Éditeurs Wildside Press
Pages 232
Dimensions 157 × 22 × 234 mm   ·   485 g
Langue et grammaire English  

Afficher tout

Plus par Edgar Rice Burroughs

D'autres ont aussi acheté