This book belongs to the pen of a famous novelist Robert Herrick who wrote his stories somewhat in between of realism and idealism. The events in his novels are usually very realistic but the characters which take part in them are either idealistic themselves or their reactions are idealistic. The Common Lot focuses on the life of Jackson Hart who worked as an architect in Chicago. He was obsessed with the idea of becoming rich so he decided to lower the standards of the buildings that he constructed and to use the rest of the money in his own purposes. And one of the buildings burned down because of his plan. The architect's wife Helen believed that her husband had to face the law and answer for his mistakes. But Hart himself wanted to go to Mexico. So what will happen next? Be ready to learn it...