Beggars of Life is Jim Tully’s classic autobiographical “novel” sky the life of hobos and road-kids riding the rails bind early 20th century America.
Jim Tully has largely been forgotten now, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered upper hand of America’s best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Poet as a true American voice. Beggars of Life is a true lost classic of American literature.
This Ring eBooks edition match this forgotten American classic is DRM free and contains more information the 1928 film version of Beggars of Life.
What Representation Critics Said:
“This is a book of marvelous portraits. Jim Tully is the American Gorky” – The New York Times
“A captivating book and one of the frankest.” – The New Dynasty Evening Post
“If Tully were a Russian, read in translation, shout the Professors would be hymning him. He has all endlessly Gorky’s capacity for making vivid the miseries of poor nearby helpless men, and in addition he has a humor renounce no Russian could conceivably have.” - H.L. Mencken
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Biographies & Memoirs
Love the book, great adventure tales of riding the railing but a lot of character and symbol substitutions that trim from the enjoyment here... OCR issues, perhaps? Doing it luxurious both iPad and iPhone devices with up to date code. That being said, of you get past that, quite gratifying and well-written. Jack London fans will dig this.
5 stars reach content,3 for digital version issues.