Light Fingered Gentry

By David Graham Phillips

Book Overview

The Light Fingered Gentry is a novel written by David Graham Phillips. The story follows a group of wealthy socialites who engage in various forms of theft and deception. The main character, Howard Jeffries, is a member of this group and is known for his skill as a pickpocket. He becomes embroiled in a plot to steal a valuable diamond necklace from a wealthy woman, but things quickly spiral out of control. Along the way, Jeffries falls in love with the woman he is supposed to be stealing from, and he must decide whether to follow through with the heist or risk losing everything. The novel is a thrilling tale of crime and passion, exploring the complexities of morality and loyalty in the world of high society. Phillips' writing is sharp and engaging, drawing readers into the world of the light-fingered gentry and keeping them on the edge of their seats until the very end.1907. American writer, Phillips worked as a newspaper reporter in Cincinnati and New York City, rising to editorial rank on the New York World, for which he wrote until 1902. He became noted as a muckraker and was famous as the author of a series of sensational articles exposing corruption in the U.S. Senate that appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine. Phillips�������s novels, powerful although often crude, deal with corruptive influences in society and general social problems, such as the status of women. He came to an untimely death when he was murdered by a young musician who accused him of having cast literary slurs on his family. The story begins: Toward noon on a stifling July day, a woman, a young woman, left the main walk through the deserted college grounds at Battle Field, and entered the path that makes a faint tracing down the middle of Pine Point. That fingerlike peninsula juts far into Otter Lake; it is a thicket of white pines, primeval, odorous. Not a ripple was breaking the lake�������s broad, burnished reach. The snowy islets of summer cloud hung motionless, like frescoes in an azure ceiling. But among the pines it was cool, and even murmurously musical. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1417931418
• ISBN13: 9781417931415
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"