A Long Island family with a beautiful daughter comes to New York to sell her — into a chorus line first, then into the best marriage the mother can arrange, the auction block being the point of the title. Beach joined the Klondike rush at twenty-two, struck nothing, and mined the experience instead; here he leaves the North for Broadway, and the mother is one of the most convincing monsters in American fiction.
Inglés
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
A Cumberland Vendetta
The Heart's Highway : A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
The Lady of Blossholme
The Trampling of the Lilies
The Companions of Jehu
Frederick the Great and His Family : A Historical Novel
Elissa : Or, The Doom of Zimbabwe
The Men of the Moss-Hags : Being a History of Adventure Taken from the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway
The Elixir
Scaramouche : A Romance of the French Revolution
Moon of Israel : A Tale of the Exodus
