Empty Pockets - Hughes, Rupert
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Empty Pockets is a novel written by Rupert Hughes and first published in 1915. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows the life of a young man named Tommie Marsh who is struggling to make ends meet. He comes from a wealthy family but has been cut off from his inheritance due to his reckless behavior. With no money and no job, Tommie is forced to rely on his wit and charm to survive in the big city.Throughout the novel, Tommie faces numerous challenges and setbacks as he tries to make a name for himself. He falls in love with a beautiful young actress named Polly Courtland, but their…mehr

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Empty Pockets is a novel written by Rupert Hughes and first published in 1915. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows the life of a young man named Tommie Marsh who is struggling to make ends meet. He comes from a wealthy family but has been cut off from his inheritance due to his reckless behavior. With no money and no job, Tommie is forced to rely on his wit and charm to survive in the big city.Throughout the novel, Tommie faces numerous challenges and setbacks as he tries to make a name for himself. He falls in love with a beautiful young actress named Polly Courtland, but their relationship is threatened by her disapproving father and Tommie's lack of financial stability. Meanwhile, Tommie's former friend and rival, Jack Delancy, is determined to bring him down and steal Polly away.As Tommie navigates the ups and downs of his life, he learns valuable lessons about love, loyalty, and the importance of hard work. The novel offers a vivid portrayal of life in early 20th century America, with its bustling cities, glamorous theaters, and social hierarchies. It also explores themes of class, ambition, and the pursuit of the American dream.Overall, Empty Pockets is a compelling and entertaining novel that offers a glimpse into a bygone era. With its engaging characters, richly detailed setting, and timeless themes, it remains a classic of American literature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Erle Stanley Gardner (1889-1970) is the master of American mystery fiction. A civil rights lawyer, his mysteries contain intricate, ever-twisting plots. Challenging and full of surprises, these are whodunits in the best tradition. He wrote 146 books, 85 of which feature Perry Mason. The fictional attorney became the basis of a number of television series (reputedly 271 episodes), and achieved an enviable record for winning his cases. Erle Stanley Gardner has an amazing sales record: at the height of his popularity in the mid-1960s he was selling an average of 26,000 copies of his novels a day, making him one of the world's best selling author's, easily outstripping at the time Agatha Christie and Barbara Cartland combined. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Gardner went on to attend Law School in Indiana, but this only lasted for around a month, being suspended because of various distractions to his studies, especially boxing. He moved to California and became a self-taught attorney before opening his own law office. However, being bored with this he ended up working in sales for five years. Returning to the law in 1921, he created another law firm, but again was not really enthusiastic, other than when acting as a trial lawyer. Writing was his great passion and eventually he gave up the law completely to pursue a full time writing career. In this he was prodigious, setting himself a target of 66,000 words per week. His output under various pseudonyms, as well as his own, went wider than Perry Mason and also extended to non-fiction. He became an expert on the early Mexican exploitation of California. In later life, law did play a significant part in his life once again. With friends, he set up what they termed 'The Court of Last Resort', aimed at investigating and attempting to reverse what they perceived as miscarriages of justice because of poor legal representation, or evidential problems. Gardner himself once wrote: 'I want to make my hero a fighter, not by having him be ruthless to women and underlings, but by creating a character who, with infinite patience jockeys his enemies into a position where he can deliver one good knockout punch.'