# An elder brother

Author: Thorne, Eglanton, 1852-1907

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71948

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=An+elder+brother+Thorne&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

THERE are persons for whom no shop has a greater attraction than a second-hand book-shop. It may be that they have a passion for collecting the old and rare, and love to turn over the well-thumbed, dusty volumes, in the hope of lighting upon a treasure in the form of a first edition, or a work long out of print. Or they may be drawn merely by a desire to acquire cheaply the coveted book which their poverty will not permit them to purchase fresh from the publisher. Whatever the nature of the attraction, the shop of Michael Betts, which stood a few years ago at the corner of a narrow, quiet street in Bloomsbury, had for such individuals, an irresistible fascination.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/an-elder-brother-71948/chapters/3/index.md)