Joan Thursday

by Louis Joseph Vance

Published 1900 onward

39 chapters12h 53mEnglish1913

About this book

Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursby seeks to raise herself up out of the gutter in 1900's New York City, in a precursor to superior soaps like Stella Dallas a decade later. Full of the kind of purple prose common to writers prone to overuse of the thesaurus, and leavened with a bit of humor, the basic story is still entertaining for fans of low-brow lit. - Summary by Matt Pierard

Chapters (39)

1Chapter 1

804

2Chapter 2

948

3Chapter 3

1599

4Chapter 4

1934

5Chapter 5

814

6Chapter 6

1920

7Chapter 7

1061

8Chapter 8

1513

9Chapter 9

789

10Chapter 10

1148

11Chapter 11

1378

12Chapter 12

1471

13Chapter 13

1486

14Chapter 14

1153

15Chapter 15

1621

16Chapter 16

1226

17Chapter 17

1392

18Chapter 18

757

19Chapter 19

1551

20Chapter 20

1243

21Chapter 21

1057

22Chapter 22

788

23Chapter 23

1441

24Chapter 24

411

25Chapter 25

1521

26Chapter 26

2206

27Chapter 27

1047

28Chapter 28

899

29Chapter 29

878

30Chapter 30

2427

31Chapter 31

1177

32Chapter 32

896

33Chapter 33

737

34Chapter 34

1035

35Chapter 35

1075

36Chapter 36

468

37Chapter 37

614

38Chapter 38

1450

39Chapter 39

481

Joan Thursday

About this book

Chapters (39)

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