Circus Parade is a novel about a small time, traveling circus and the colorful characters that put on the show, set up and took down the tent and most of all, ripped off the rubes as it traveled from town to town. This book was quite controversial when it was first published in 1927 because of its frank description of the lives behind the greasepaint and tinsel. Fans of Sara Gruens novel Water for Elephants will recognize Circus Parade was a major influence on her book.Jim Tully ha...

Beggars of Life is Jim Tullys classic autobiographical novel about the life of hobos and road-kids riding the rails in early 20th century America.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice. Beggars of Life is a true lost classic of American literature.This Ring eBooks edition of this forgotten American classic is DRM free and contain...

Jarnegan is a novel about the decadent world of silent film era Hollywood. Originally published in 1926 this novel tore back the curtain of the dream factory to reveal the often of seedy dealings and outrageous personalitys that built an industry and a great American art form.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice.This Rin...

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police and reach Canada. A bestseller in 1924, in this vivid piece of outlaw history Jim Tully takes us across the seamy underbelly of pre-WWI America on freight trains, and inside hobo jungles and brothels while narrowly averting the cops. The author chose life on th...

This hardboiled collection of somewhat interconnected short stories revolves around men in prison. Tully paints a vibrant picture of their lives behind bars, how they got there, and how some of them die there. These stories are dark and gritty, maybe the hardest hitting of all of Tullys books, yet they overflow with a deep felt compassion for the humanity that few writers could find within these broken men.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s h...

Blood on the Moon brings to a close the series of five books which Tully hoped would be grouped together and called the Underworld Edition. He saw his previous books Beggars of Life. Circus Parade, Shanty Irish, and Shadows of Men as having a common thread of telling the stories of the outcasts and under dogs that lurked below the surface of early Twentieth century America culture. Blood on the Moon brings together the stories of orphans, hobos, Irish immigrants, chain makers, whores, ma...

The Bruiser is the story of a road-kid turned boxer who battles his way to a title fight, but more than that it is about the comradery that existed between men whose business it was to try to beat each other to a pulp.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice.This Ring eBooks edition of this forgotten American classic is DR...

Its twenty below zero outside and a random group of vagabonds find themselves seeking shelter from the weather in a small town jail. Glad to be inside on such a cold night the group settles down to go to sleep when it is discovered that one of them is not whom they at first seem to be. This is the plot of this 1926 play by Jim Tully and Robert Nichols. Also included in this eBook is Jim Tullys short story Thieves and Vagabonds on which the play was based.This Ring eBooks edition of ...

The desperate circumstances of a hard working railroad engineer are chronicled in this novel. After killing his wife and her paramour he is sentenced to life on a Southern chain gang where the inmates are tortured and tormented by their captors. Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice. This Ring eBooks edition of this forg...

In Shanty Irish, Jim Tully weaves the bittersweet, autobiographical tale of his familys journey from Ireland to America, chronicling their struggles, defeats and little victories. This unjustly forgotten American novel is one of greatest books of the Irish diaspora. This book will tug at your heart strings and make you laugh out loud.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Heming...

Emmett Lawler is the first of Jim Tullys autobiographical novels. The story follows the travels of a young man through the hobo jungles of early 1900s American and his attempts to escape his impoverished and neglected upbringing.Jim Tully has largely been forgotten today, but during the 1920s and 1930s he was considered one of Americas best writers, routinely ranked with Hemingway and Fitzgerald as a true American voice.This Ring eBooks edition of this forgotten American clas...

This is a book about life in a high-class house of prostitution in Chicago and how the women who worked there came to be there. This was Jim Tullys most controversial book. The book was banned in Canada in 1935 and a New York court determined that the book was obscene and banned the book within the state. By modern standards the book the book seems tame, but in 1935 it was considered lewd for its frank portrayal of prostitution and government corruption.Jim Tully has largely been fo...