Arrogant Beggar

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Co.. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (black cloth, paper spine and front cover labels; no dust jacket) [good sound copy, spine slightly turned, modest bumping to lower corners, one-time owner's neat property stamp on title page]. Yezierska's third novel (and fifth published book) deals with a young department store clerk who tries to escape the poverty and drudgery of her life on New York's Lower East Side by means of gaining admittance to the Hellman Home for Working Girls, but soon "finds herself caught in the degrading routine of artificial charity [and] rebels" at the hypocrisy and condescension she discovers lurking just behind the curtain of charitable "uplift" undertaken by its wealthy sponsor. Hanna 3923. ***This book is among the nearly 150 items offered in ReadInk's new Catalog Number 4, "Booking Passage: Books on the Immigrant Experience." You can access this catalog and its contents in any one of three ways: (1) email us to request a PDF to be emailed to you; (2) view or download the catalog from the link on our website's main page; (3) browse the books individually (including a few that didn't make the cut for the catalog) on our website under these two subject headings: "Immigration: Fiction" and "Immigration: Non-fiction." .