SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

The title story a hard Limehouse oil-and-tallow refiner in the days of George the Third marries a well-born girl as a matter of business and each finds out what the other is made of when typhus breaks out among his own workpeople With it four more a ghost story from a Norwegian mountain saeter a boys first night at a music hall a set of silhouettes from memory and the comedy of a public-house lease Jerome was orphaned at fifteen and worked as a ...Seguir leyendo