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A song book cover, 1900 "Korobeiniki" (Russian: Коробе́йники, romanized: Korobéyniki, IPA: [kərɐˈbʲejnʲɪkʲɪ], lit. 'The Peddlers') is a nineteenth-century Russian folk song that tells the story of a meeting between a korobeinik (peddler) and a girl, describing their haggling over goods in a metaphor for seduction.
The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first full-length novel by the English author Henry Fielding to be published and among the early novels in the English language. Appearing in 1742 and defined by Fielding as a "comic epic poem in prose", it tells of a good-natured footman's adventures ...
"Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917 [N.S.], Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (Yiddish: שלום יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָװיטש , Russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович, romanized: Solomon Moiseyevich Abramovich) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the ...
Canvassing subscription sales were the only way to deliver books to many rural areas of America. [2] Hawkers (peddlers) were often frowned upon by the law, but book peddlers were treated differently. For example, Massachusetts and Missouri excepted book peddlers from laws imposing penalties on unlicensed hawkers. [3]
Based on a folktale, the story follows a mustachioed cap-selling peddler (unnamed in the book, he is known as Pezzo in the sequel, Circus Caps for Sale) who wears his entire stock of caps on his head. When the peddler goes to sleep under a tree, a troupe of monkeys steal all the caps, except his own checked cap, and put them on.
A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) [a] is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods. In 19th-century America the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exemplified in the popular play Sam'l of Posen; or, The Commercial Drummer by George H. Jessop .
The original meaning of huckster is a person who sells small articles, either door-to-door or from a stall or small store, like a peddler or hawker. The term probably derives from the Middle English hucc, meaning "to haggle". [1] The word was in use circa 1200 as "huccsteress".
The Peddler — 1963 (published in 1952 under pseudonym "Douglas Ring") The Peddler - 2006 by Hard Case Crime; As David Knight. Pattern for Murder — 1952 (published in 1958 as The Scrambled Yeggs under Prather's name) Dragnet: Case No. 561 — 1956; As Douglas Ring. The Peddler — 1952 (published in 1963 under Prather's name)