Rain In The Doorway

BY

Thorne Smith

  1. WAITING
  2. IN THE DOORWAY
  3. SNATCHED THROUGH
  4. THE NEW PARTNER
  5. PORNOGRAPHY PREFERRED
  6. SATIN
  7. ESTABLISHING A LINE OF CREDIT
  8. THE BURNING BEARD
  9. THE KIARIANS CONTINUE
  10. FROM THE ROOF TOP
  11. THE PARTNERS ARE HELPFUL
  12. SATIN SLINGS AN EEL
  13. MR. OWEN'S BUFF
  14. THE HOUR GROWS LATE
  15. BEHIND THE SETTEE
  16. CALM IN A CHAPEL
  17. LASCIVIOUS DANCING
  18. THE PARTNERS PURCHASE A WHALE
  19. DAWN BREAKS ON MINNIE
  20. TOO MANY WIVES IN A BED
  21. THE TRIPLE CO-RESPONDENT
  22. FIRE AND FAREWELL

Dedication:

For
HELEN, KATHLEEN, and LILLIAN,
for whom Allah be praised

This novel by Thorne Smith (1892-1934) was originally published in 1933 in the USA, and in 1936 in Britain. This e-text has been scanned from the Mayfair Books (UK) edition of 1962, but all questions of formatting in the final editing and conversion to HTML were based on the 1980 Ballantine (USA) edition. I have not attempted to restore American spelling. To the best of my knowledge and belief all European copyright in this work, including editorial copyright in all relevant editions, has now expired.

The text was originally scanned by William McCabe, to whom all thanks. During the OCR process numerous spelling and grammatical errors were corrected, but some were probably missed. For scholastic purposes you are strongly advised to refer back to the original text.

Marcus L. Rowland, April 2005