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On Broadway

A Novel

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The Portrait of My Double

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Voices of the Fallen Heroes

There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die

The Princess of 72nd Street

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Guys and Dolls

and Other Stories

Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls.<br/>
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'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest.. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this'.

Alfred Dmon Runyon was born in 1884 in Manhattan, Kansas. During WWI he became a war correspondent, and he continued to write after the war. Runyion's stories are highly original and lively evocations of Broadway low-life and the New York sporting scene. Initially collected in Guys and Dolls (1932), other collections include Blue Plate Special (1934) amd Take it Easy (1938). He died in 1946.

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