A Chair On The Boulevard - Merrick, Leonard
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A quietly incandescent social realism, A Chair On The Boulevard draws you into a city of ambition and appetite where every chair by the curb holds a story. This is a concise, character-driven exploration of urban life and status, a classic fiction for students and curious readers alike. By tracing intimate, morally ambiguous dramas against the bustle of early twentieth-century Paris, Leonard Merrick crafts a social realism novel that blends sharp social critique with humane, human-scale detail. It is a boulevard setting fiction that reads with the clarity of a modern urban drama, resonant for…mehr

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A quietly incandescent social realism, A Chair On The Boulevard draws you into a city of ambition and appetite where every chair by the curb holds a story. This is a concise, character-driven exploration of urban life and status, a classic fiction for students and curious readers alike. By tracing intimate, morally ambiguous dramas against the bustle of early twentieth-century Paris, Leonard Merrick crafts a social realism novel that blends sharp social critique with humane, human-scale detail. It is a boulevard setting fiction that reads with the clarity of a modern urban drama, resonant for readers who love the British realism tradition and the tone of George Gissing. Historically, the work sits at a pivotal crossroads: a bridge between late-Victorian sensitivities and modernist introspection, offering a lucid portrait of the city and its inhabitants. It's more than a historical artefact; it's a cultural treasure that illuminates class and status themes with acuity and warmth. For collectors, scholars, and new readers, the book is a welcome addition to a classic literature collection. Selling points: out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions; restored for today's and future generations; more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. A Chair On The Boulevard invites casual readers to feel the heartbeat of a city while rewarding dedicated readers with depth, nuance, and lasting resonance.
Autorenporträt
Leonard Merrick was an English novelist. Barrie dubbed him the "novelist's novelist." Leonard Miller was born in Belsize Park, London, to Jewish parents. After attending Brighton College, he studied to be a solicitor at Brighton and law in Heidelberg, but he was obliged to fly to South Africa at the age of eighteen due to his father's serious financial loss. He worked as an overseer at the Kimberley diamond mine and in a solicitor's office. After surviving a near-fatal attack of "camp fever," he returned to London in the late 1880s, where he worked as an actor and manager under the stage name Leonard Merrick. Merrick was well recognized by other writers of his time. In 1918, fifteen writers, including well-known authors such as H. G. Wells, J. M. Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, and William Dean Howells, teamed with publisher E. P. Dutton to release The Works of Leonard Merrick in fifteen volumes, which were released between 1918 and 1922. Each volume in the series was picked and prefaced by one of the authors. In 2009, William Baker and Jeannettes Robert Shumaker published a biography titled Leonard Merrick: A Forgotten Novelist's Novelist.