
In the Quarter - by Robert W. Chambers
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
A raucous evening in a bustling Parisian café sets the stage for a tangled web of gossip, rivalry, and restless ambition. Amid clinking glasses and drunken chants, a group of young men—Elliott, Rhodes, Clifford, and their friend Gethryn—swap jokes, flirt with a bookkeeper, and trade barbed comments about their precarious futures at the nearby Salon. Their banter hints at a deeper unease: a recent “slaughter” at the Salon, mysterious green cards that herald exclusion, and a string of dismissals that leave each character teetering on the edge of ruin.
The dialogue crackles with multilingual wit and the restless energy of the Latin Quarter, while a newcomer named Braith offers a weary, half‑hearted counsel that nudges Gethryn toward a decisive, if uncertain, course. As the night swells with laughter and threats, listeners are drawn into a snapshot of bohemian life where every toast conceals a hidden motive and the next move could change everything.
Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (295K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
William McClain Updated: 2022-12-28.
Release date
2004-11-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1865–1933
Best known today for the eerie stories in The King in Yellow, he was an American writer and trained artist whose work ranged from supernatural fiction to historical romance and popular magazine fiction. His reputation has endured largely because those uncanny tales went on to influence later horror writers.
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