Ring Ebooks: 11 books

The Bruiser is the story of a road-kid turned boxer who battles his way to a title fight, but more than that it is about the comradery that existed between men whose business it was to try to beat each other to a pulp. Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s...

In Shanty Irish, Jim Tully weaves the bittersweet, autobiographical tale of his familys journey from Ireland to America, chronicling their struggles, defeats and little victories. This unjustly forgotten American novel is one of greatest books of the Irish diaspora. This book will tug at your heart...

Beggars of Life is Jim Tullys classic autobiographical novel about the life of hobos and road-kids riding the rails in early 20th century America.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway...

The desperate circumstances of a hard working railroad engineer are chronicled in this novel. After killing his wife and her paramour he is sentenced to life on a Southern chain gang where the inmates are tortured and tormented by their captors. Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today,...

Jarnegan is a novel about the decadent world of silent film era Hollywood. Originally published in 1926 this novel tore back the curtain of the dream factory to reveal the often of seedy dealings and outrageous personalitys that built an industry and a great American art form.Jim Tully has...

Blood on the Moon brings to a close the series of five books which Tully hoped would be grouped together and called the Underworld Edition. He saw his previous books Beggars of Life. Circus Parade, Shanty Irish, and Shadows of Men as having a common thread of telling the stories of the outcasts and...

This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tullys books, yet...

Its twenty below zero outside and a random group of vagabonds find themselves seeking shelter from the weather in a small town jail. Glad to be inside on such a cold night the group settles down to go to sleep when it is discovered that one of them is not whom they at first seem to be. This is the...

Emmett Lawler is the first of Jim Tullys autobiographical novels. The story follows the travels of a young man through the hobo jungles of early 1900s American and his attempts to escape his impoverished and neglected upbringing.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s...

This is a book about life in a high-class house of prostitution in Chicago and how the women who worked there came to be there. This was Jim Tullys most controversial book. The book was banned in Canada in 1935 and a New York court determined that the book was obscene and banned the book within the...

Circus Parade is a novel about a small time, traveling circus and the colorful characters that put on the show, set up and took down the tent and most of all, ripped off the rubes as it traveled from town to town. This book was quite controversial when it was first published in 1927 because of its...