# The Salamander

Author: Johnson, Owen, 1878-1952; Shinn, Everett, 1876-1953 [Illustrator]

Genre: Bestsellers, American, 1895-1923

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36355

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Salamander+Johnson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The day was Thursday; the month, October, rushing to its close; and the battered alarm-clock on the red mantel stood at precisely one o'clock. The room was enormous, high and generally dim, the third floor front of Miss Pim's boarding-house on lower Madison Avenue. Of its four windows, two, those at the side, had been blinded by the uprising of an ugly brick wall, which seemed to impend over the room, crowding into it, depriving it of air. The two windows fronting on the avenue let in two shafts of oblique sunlight. The musty violet paper on the walls, blistered in spots, was capped by a frieze of atrocious pink and blue roses. The window-shades, which had been pulled down to shut out the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XXXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/32/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/25/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/24/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/26/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/31/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/28/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/23/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/29/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/27/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/30/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-salamander-36355/chapters/13/index.md)