Belshazzar Court or Village Life in New York City

by Simeon Strunsky

Overview

We have been called a nation of villagers, and Mr. Strunsky in these sketches discourses in a friendly way on some of our village characteristics. He writes from the point of view of the man who has an uptown apartment, with rent just a trifle higher than he can afford, in Belshazzar court, and who travels daily to his place of business in Park Row via the subway. Occasionally the point of view of Emmeline is called in by way of reinforcement or contrast. In general it is with the street, the show, the game, and the night life of the city that he is concerned, but now and again it is the young son Harold who offers a fruitful subject for meditation.

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"His book has that quality which is becoming rare: it is companionable." —Bookman

"By his very lightness of style and his gentle grace of humor he makes 'Belshazzar court' a genuine interpretation of a place, a people and a life whose spirit has been utterly missed by many an ultra serious and portentous analyst. —Boston Transcript

"Few have the power or the inclination to see In the complexities of modern city life the simplicity and kindliness of human nature, essentially the same everywhere, but that is the chief charm of these essays." —Dial

"The rare quality of the book Is not so much the humor as the suggestive quality of the thought." —Nation

"Delightful essays about New York City." —Library Bulletin

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663524300
Publisher:	Dapper Moose Entertainment
Publication date:	06/30/2020
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Simeon Strunsky (July 23, 1879 – February 5, 1948) was a Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist. He is best remembered as a prominent editorialist for the New York Times for more than two decades. Simeon Strunsky was born July 23, 1879 in Vitsebsk, Belorussia, then part of the Russian Empire and today part of Belarus. His parents were Isidor S. and Perl Wainstein. He graduated from Columbia University, where he was a member of the Philolexian Society, in 1900. Strunsky was a department editor of the New International Encyclopedia from 1900 to 1906, editorial writer on the New York Evening Post from 1906 to 1913, and subsequently was literary editor of that paper until 1920.