On the Stairs

A short novel by Henry Blake Fuller tracing two Chicago men, Johnny McComas and Raymond Prince, across the decades from 1873 to 1916, as one rises and the other declines on the social and financial stairs of life.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›American novels to 1900›Society and literary novels

Reader

Adults›Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic romance and society novels›American novels to 1900›Society and literary novels