| The Beetle Contributor(s): Marsh, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1512317691 ISBN-13: 9781512317695 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Thrillers - General - Fiction | Horror - General |
| Dewey: 823.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.60 lbs) 110 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'No room -Full up ' He banged the door in my face. That was the final blow. To have tramped about all day looking for work; to have begged even for a job which would give me money enough to buy a little food; and to have tramped and to have begged in vain, -that was bad. But, sick at heart, depressed in mind and in body, exhausted by hunger and fatigue, to have been compelled to pocket any little pride I might have left, and solicit, as the penniless, homeless tramp which indeed I was, a night's lodging in the casual ward, - and to solicit it in vain -that was worse. Much worse. About as bad as bad could be. I stared, stupidly, at the door which had just been banged in my face. I could scarcely believe that the thing was possible. I had hardly expected to figure as a tramp; but, supposing it conceivable that I could become a tramp, that I should be refused admission to that abode of all ignominy, the tramp's ward, was to have attained a depth of misery of which never even in nightmares I had dreame |
