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Share Link copied Format epub Published May 03, 2026 Rating No reviews yet ![Lummox](https://fls-a13cb2d7-1b3e-4883-a0bd-297afd110a11.367be3a2035528943240074d0096e0cd.r2.cloudflarestorage.com/works/01kqqzdmweywkmr3814eqgk596/cover.png?X-Amz-Content-Sha256=UNSIGNED-PAYLOAD&X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=d29ce3bb571c165c97a702f29f7aee93%2F20260913%2Fauto%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20260913T225909Z&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&X-Amz-Expires=3600&X-Amz-Signature=6e6bd971a66dfbc29ba484ff046dd4a1bacf93bb18b05a3a902dbeb31575c3d1) ## About this work Lummox by Fannie Hurst — a public-domain edition published by publica.now. Sample ## Take a look inside LUMMOX BY FANNIE HURST NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS MCMXXIII LUMMOX Copyright, 1923 By Harper & Brothers Printed in the U. S. A. First Edition i-x BOOKS BY FANNIE HURST Novels LUMMOX STAR DUST Short Stories JUST AROUND THE CORNER EVERY SOUL HATH ITS SONG GASLIGHT SONATAS HUMORESQUE THE VERTICAL CITY LUMMOX LUMMOX Nobody quite knew just what Baltic bloods flowed in sullen and alien rivers through Bertha's veins—or cared, might be added. Bertha, least of all. She was five feet, nine and a half, of flat-breasted bigness and her cheek-bones were pitched like Norn's. Little tents. There must have been a good smattering of Scandinavian and even a wide streak of western Teutonic. Slav, too. Because unaccountably she found herself knowing the Polish national anthem. Recognized it with her heart as it rattled out of a hurdy-gurdy. In her carpetbag, an outlandish one with a steamship stamp on it, were a bit of Bulgarian embroidery, a runic brooch, a concertina with a punctured bellows and an ikon in imitation mosaic. Old world. And yet Bertha had been born in a furiously dark sailors' lodging house in Front Street, where New York harbor smells of spices and city garbage rides by to the dump on barges. One of those frightening emergency births of rusty instruments, midwifery and a sinister room made more terrible by the travail of her coming. Of no particular father (although the China seas could probably have yielded up the secret of his rollicking lane), and of a dead mother. She had died two minutes before Bertha was born. Annie Wennerberg, landlady of the sailors' lodging house, who reared Bertha those first dozen years of her life that were sopping wet with scrub-water and soft-soap, knew. Horrid scuttling rat-like things that Annie Wennerberg knew. Born of a… [ Sign in to buy ](https://publica.now/access?redirect=%2Fcheckout%2Flummox) The sample continues in the full work. 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