num_pages: 220
description: Everyone knew the residents of Pepper Street were "nice" people -- especially the residents themselves. Among the self-satisfied group were: Mrs Merriam, the sanctimonious shrew who was turning her husband into a nonentity and her daughter into a bigoted spinster; Mr Roberts, who found relief from the street's unending propriety in shoddy side-street amours; Miss Fielding, who considered it more important to boil an egg properly than to save a disturbed girl from destruction. It took the gruesome act of a desperate boy who lived among them to pierce the shell of their complacency and force them to see their own ugliness.
language: English
title: The Road Through the Wall
titlecomplete: The Road Through the Wall
genres: Classics, American, Gothic, Modern Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Horror
ratings_count: 2286
places: California
publisher: Popular Library