Round the Block


Read by Grant Hurlock

(3.7 stars; 3 reviews)

In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel's circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, as love-matches and fortunes are made and lost through invention, speculation, and flimflam - plenty of flimflam. This richly-charactered novel, told with Dickensian brio, offers a fascinating slice of life, vivid in detail, of the bustling big-city habits and mores of America shortly before the Civil War. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock) (18 hr 6 min)

Chapters

Book 1 Chapter 1 The Block 8:17 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 2 Three Bachelors 22:12 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 3 Peeps 15:14 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 4 Quigg 12:48 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 5 Pleasure as Business 6:37 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 6 Something Hidden 18:48 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 7 The Boy Bog 6:52 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 8 Maltboy\'s Twentieth Affair 18:19 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 9 Mrs. Slapman at Home 12:55 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 1 Chapter 10 Infirmities of Genius 17:21 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 1 The Enigma 9:00 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 2 A Delicate Proposition 9:57 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 3 An Auxiliary of Modern Civilization 15:03 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 4 Miss Pillbody 7:30 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 5 A Friend in Need 11:09 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 6 Branching Out 14:04 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 2 Chapter 7 The Little Pupil 8:00 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 3 Chapter 1 "One-Two-Three-Four" 13:06 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 3 Chapter 2 The Falling Board 5:36 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 3 Chapter 3 Sneaking Justified 10:19 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 3 Chapter 4 Up in the Air 11:27 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 3 Chapter 5 Tongues of Fire 8:38 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 4 Chapter 1 Myndert Van Quintem and Son 25:55 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 4 Chapter 2 Buying Good Behavior 13:29 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 4 Chapter 3 The Young Monster 14:01 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 4 Chapter 4 Wesley Tiffles 21:41 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 4 Chapter 5 The Panorama of Africa 13:15 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 5 Chapter 1 Stolen - More Than a Purse 14:41 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 5 Chapter 2 Consolations of High Art 25:35 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 5 Chapter 3 Loving Afar Off 10:24 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 5 Chapter 4 Legerdemain 12:05 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 6 Chapter 1 The Unknown Hand 16:53 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 6 Chapter 2 In Vain - In Vain 14:04 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 6 Chapter 3 The Clashing Orbs 10:26 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 6 Chapter 4 A Vision of Horrors 17:59 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 6 Chapter 5 What the Morning Brought 3:31 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 1 Pea-Shooting as a Science 7:13 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 2 By Steam 22:50 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 3 Pigworth, J.P. 10:40 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 4 Stoop 20:32 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 5 An Audience Analyzed 14:58 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 6 Humors of the Many-Headed 21:00 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 7 Chapter 7 Scenes Not in the Bills 11:02 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 8 Chapter 1 The Overture 8:34 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 8 Chapter 2 Curtain Up 15:16 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 8 Chapter 3 Act Second 16:37 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 8 Chapter 4 How the Play Ended 6:56 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 1 Coroner and Jury 12:54 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 2 Statement of the Prisoner 17:51 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 3 Justice Goes to Dinner 10:01 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 4 Light in the Prison 16:48 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 5 The Sorrow of White Hairs 7:27 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 6 What Paper, Types, and Ink Can Do 9:14 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 7 Pet as a Witness 15:12 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 8 The Beneficence of Fire Bells 9:08 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 9 Chapter 9 An Old Man\'s Offering 19:28 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 1 A Fisher of Men 9:59 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 2 Playing with the Line 5:53 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 3 Pulling In 11:48 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 4 The First of May 9:28 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 5 Demolition of Certain Air Castles 15:57 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 6 Mr. Whedell\'s Creditors in Convention Assembled 14:15 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 10 Chapter 7 Deus ex Machina 12:02 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 1 The Old House Revisited 14:08 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 2 A Posthumous Secret 7:58 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 3 Overtop Finds a Sensible Woman 10:25 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 4 Innocence on a Slippery Road 8:45 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 5 Bog\'s Open Seseme 14:17 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 6 Tracked 11:52 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 11 Chapter 7 Found and Lost 12:59 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 1 The \"Cosmopolitan Window Fastener\" 12:15 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 2 Middle-Aged Cupid 9:50 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 3 Slapman vs. Slapman 11:00 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 4 How Overman Sealed a Contract in a Way Unknown to Chitty 10:49 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 5 A Returned Californian 14:42 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 12 Chapter 6 Revelations of a Laugh 14:24 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 13 Chapter 1 A Story of the Past 14:42 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 13 Chapter 2 Possible Love 4:33 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 13 Chapter 3 Uncle and Niece 11:39 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 14 Chapter 1 Owners of the Beautiful 8:01 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 14 Chapter 2 The Last of a Mystery 12:20 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 14 Chapter 3 Love Crowned 34:34 Read by Grant Hurlock
Book 14 Chapter 4 Five Years 17:25 Read by Grant Hurlock

Reviews

VERRRRY INTERESTING


(5 stars)

THIS IS A VERY LOOOONG BOOK, SO MANY THINGS HAPPENING, I CAN'T FOR THE LIFE OF ME THINK HOW A WRITER CAN COME UP WITH SO MANY FACETS OF ONE STORY, I DID REALLY ENJOY IT AND THE READER WAS JUST SUPERB. SO MANY VOICES . AND WHAT I REALLY LIKED WAS THAT IT WAS A MAN TELLING THE STORY OR SHOULD I SAY STORIES...AND A MAN READ IT. NOTHING WORSE THAN A BOOK ABOUT A SOLDIER BEING READ BY A WOMAN. A1A1

I agree


(5 stars)

Careful, well written novel. Grant Hurlock, as reader,starts slow, but then warms to his task, drawing listeners right in, and has them waiting for the next development. It IS long, but a great listen for a day of housework, auto repair, gardening or chores where you can leave the story running as you work. Murder, mystery, romance-- all the best elements are included.. Never boring.