Fannie Hurst: 7 books

The Best Works of Fannie Hurst   Every Soul Hath Its Song Gaslight Sonatas Humoresque Just Around the Corner Star-Dust The Sturdy Oak The Vertical City

An outstanding collection of romance tales by Fannie Hurst. A great companion volume to Just Around the Corner by the same author.

On either side of the Bowery, which cuts through like a drain to catch its sewage, Every Man's Land, a reeking march of humanity and humidity, steams with the excrement of seventeen languages, flung in patois from tenement windows, fire escapes, curbs, stoops, and cellars whose walls are terrible...

The bestselling story behind Ross Hunter’s classic melodrama starring Susan Hayward and John Gavin. When “fly girl” and gorgeous socialite Ray Schmidt first meets Walter Saxel in Cincinnati, their attraction is instant and everlasting. As their bond deepens, Ray finds herself envisioning...

A collection of romantic short stories. Life as it is lived in a great city. The heroines of these metropolitan romances are all working-girls, in their strengths and their weaknesses, in their work and their play. Here is humor and the unexpected climax.

When Lilly Becker eked out with one hand that most indomitable of pianoforte selections, Rubinstein's "Melody in F," her young mind had a habit of transcending itself into some such illusory realm as this: Springtime seen lacily through a phantasmagoria of song. A very floral sward. Fountains...