Simon Binswanger first sees the Statue of Liberty huddled in his mother’s skirts on a steerage deck, and grows up among the clothes-lines of the Lower East Side. Hurst’s stories follow people like him, travelling salesmen, a Cincinnati merchant, a consumptive and a newspaper sob sister, through ambition, love and disappointment.
Early stories by one of the best-paid American writers of the 1910s, alive with New York speech and feeling. Download the free EPUB.