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Author: Fitz-James Obrien

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Year of Death: 1862

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Description wiki: Fitz James OBrien (also spelled Fitz-James; 25 October 1826 6 April 1862) was an Irish American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction

Description Good Reads: This collection gathers together the works by Fitz James OBrien in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The Diamond Lens, The Lost Room, The Wondersmith, What was it? : a mystery, My Wifes Tempter, The Golden Ingot The fast access table of contents takes you first to the book of your choice, where the chapter links will let you to go your selected chapter. This hierarchical structure ensures a fast browsing experience with the books of your choice.

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Author: Ambrose Bierce

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Year of Death: 1914

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Date Published: 1890

Country: United States

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Description wiki: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce.] Described as “one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature” it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierces book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). The story, which is set during the American Civil War, is known for its irregular time sequence and twist ending. Bierces abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is an early example of the stream of consciousness narrative mode

Description Good Reads: The condemned man stands on a bridge, his hands bound behind his back. A noose is tied around his neck. In a moment he will meet his fate: DEATH BY HANGING. There is no escape. Or is there? Find out in . . . An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.

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Additional Research: amazon – mbrose Bierce s haunting 1890 short story An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge has a modern twist ending that never gets old. The narrative concerns the final thoughts of a Southern planter as he is being hanged by Union soldiers. In the brief period between the tightening of the noose and the actual breaking of his neck, something happens. The rope breaks and the man escapes. Or the man imagines he escapes. Which is it?

Description Original: A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. … The opening of Ambrose Bierce s short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge sets the scene for the execution of a southern planter as he is about to be hanged by Union soldiers. This story is one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature. The story is unique in its literary perspective of abandoning linear structure to follow the internal mind of the condemned soldier. Flashbacks and stream of consciousness are used masterfully to create a compelling and jarring narrative that has kept readers intrigued for over 100 years.

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Author: Ambrose Bierce

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Year of Death: 1914

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Date Published: 1893

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Description wiki: The Damned Thing may refer to: “The Damned Thing” (short story), a classic 1893 short story by Ambrose Bierce The Damned Thing (Masters of Horror), an episode of the film anthology series Masters of Horror

Description Good Reads: This engrossing tale presents as its central theme the ultimately unknowable and untameable essence of nature and the natural world. Told from several different perspectives, the story focuses on a freak fatal accident that is written off as a wild animal attack. But does that description get at the truth of the matter? At least one witness is convinced otherwise. A story of the paranormal that was once loosely adapted for an episode of the television series Masters of Horror

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Additional Research: The story starts out in the deceased Hugh Morgans cabin full of local farmers, woodsmen, jurors, a coroner and the dead, battered body of Hugh Morgan. A young man named William Harker, who was a witness to Morgans death, later enters the cabin and is sworn in by the coroner to relate the circumstances surrounding Hugh Morgans demise. William read from a manuscript he pulled out of breast pocket and talked about a shooting and fishing outing he had with Morgan. He later explained he and Morgan encountered a disturbance moving in the wild oat bushes Morgan referred to as “that damned thing.” Harker explained nothing had affected him so strangely when he had no fear of the situation. Morgan suddenly fired his gun out of fright and before Harker knew what was going on, he said he was thrown violently to the ground and heard Morgan crying out in some type mortal agony. He looked in Morgans direction only to see an extraordinary scene of his companions body violently moving from side to side with shouts and disturbing cries. He thought Morgan was having some type of convulsion because he visibly couldnt see anything attacking him. After experiencing the terror of his friends convulsions and the mysterious movement of the wild oats, Harker finally reached Morgan only to find him dead. Harker leaves the cabin after explaining what happened to Morgan and after hearing the coroner say Morgans diary had no figure in the matter of his death. Shorty after Harker left the jury concluded Morgan died in the hands of a mountain lion. The story then proceeds to entries written in Morgans diary. The entries gradually deal with Morgan realizing he is not mad because he realizes there are things in the natural world he cannot see or hear based on his experiences with nature and the damned thing.

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Author: William Hope Hodgson

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Year of Death: 1918

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Date Published: 1912

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Description wiki: The Night Land is a horror/fantasy novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1912. As a work of fantasy it belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre. Hodgson also published a much shorter version of the novel, entitled The Dream of X (1912). The Night Land was revived in paperback by Ballantine Books, which republished the work in two parts as the 49th and 50th volumes of its Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in July 1972. H. P. Lovecrafts essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” describes the novel as “one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written”. Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it:[1] In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land. Whatever faults this book may possess, however inordinate its length may seem, it impresses the reader as being the ultimate saga of a perishing cosmos, the last epic of a world beleaguered by eternal night and by the unvisageable spawn of darkness. Only a great poet could have conceived and written this story; and it is perhaps not illegitimate to wonder how much of actual prophecy may have been mingled with the poesy. ?Clark Ashton Smith, 1973, “In Appreciation of William Hope Hogdson” When the book was written, the nature of the energy source that powers stars was not known: Lord Kelvin had published calculations based on the hypothesis that the energy came from the gravitational collapse of the gas cloud that had formed the sun and found that this mechanism gave the Sun a lifetime of only a few tens of million of years. Starting from this premise, Hodgson wrote a novel describing a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun has gone dark

Description Good Reads: An adventure of both science fiction and fantasy one of the great love stories–this is William Hope Hodgsons masterpiece, rewritten for the modern reader. Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult, archaic style that readers often find impenetrable. As a labor of love, James Stoddard has rewritten Hodgsons book to bring it to a wider audience. The story opens in the 19th century, but quickly moves to the far future, where the sun has gone out, leaving the world in a darkness broken only by strange lights and mysterious fires. Over the ages, monsters and evil forces have descended to the earth, compelling the surviving humans to take refuge in a great pyramid of imperishable metal built in a miles-deep chasm. The monsters surround the pyramid in a perpetual siege lasting for eons, waiting for the moment when its defenses must fail. But one man, born out of his time, must leave the pyramid to seek his long-lost love though all the perils of the Night Land

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Description wiki: his article is about the novel. For the album by Ahab, see The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” (album). The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” Boats of glen-carrig.jpg Dust-jacket of The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” Author William Hope Hodgson Country United Kingdom Language English Genre Horror Publisher Chapman and Hall Publication date 1907 Media type Print (hardback) Pages 320 The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” is a horror novel by English writer William Hope Hodgson, first published in 1907.[1] Its importance was recognised in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the twenty-fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in February 1971. The novel is written in an archaic style, and is presented as a true account, written in 1757, of events occurring earlier. The narrator is a passenger who was traveling on the ship Glen Carrig, which was lost at sea when it struck “a hidden rock”. The story is about the adventures of the survivors, who escaped the wreck in two lifeboats. The novel is written in a style similar to that used by Hodgson in his longer novel The Night Land (1912), with long sentences containing semicolons and numerous prepositional phrases. There is no dialogue in the usual sense. While The Night Land is an early example of science fiction, Boats is primarily a survival and adventure story with elements of horror, in the form of monsters. The monsters do not necessarily require a supernatural explanation i.e., are not ghosts, as in Hodgsons novel The Ghost Pirates (1909) or some of his Carnacki stories , but there are also few explanations given. Boats in its strong use of concrete detail evokes a lost world, and is also an interesting case study in human relationships and class mores, as the class distinctions between the narrator and the crew members are broken down by the shared situation they find themselves in, but are eventually re-established.

Description Good Reads: This collection gathers together the works by William Hope Hodgson in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! Captain Gault Carnacki the Ghost Finder Men of the Deep Waters The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” The Ghost Pirates The House on the Borderland The Night Land The Voice of the Ocean ABOUT THE AUTHORS Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the “Sargasso Sea Mythos”. His novels such as The Night Land and The House on the Borderland feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at the age of 40

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Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Description wiki: is an 1897 novel, by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic. The novel originally appeared as a serialisation in McClures, beginning with the November 1896 edition with the last instalment appearing in May 1897. In that year it was then published in its entirety as a novel, first in the United States by Doubleday, and a month later in the United Kingdom by Macmillan.[1] It is Kiplings only novel set entirely in North America.[1] In 1900, Teddy Roosevelt extolled the book in his essay “What We Can Expect of the American Boy,” praising Kipling for describing “in the liveliest way just what a boy should be and do.”[3] The books title comes from the ballad “Mary Ambree”, which starts, “When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt”. Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers, published in The Times of 23 November 1892

Description Good Reads: A pampered millionaires son tumbles overboard from a luxury liner and falls into good fortune, disguised in the form of a fishing boat. The gruff and hearty crew teach the young man to be worth his salt as they fish the waters off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Brimming with adventure and humor

Description Penquin: Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends.

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Description Good Reads: This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Description Good Reads: My Own Story (1914) is a memoir by English political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Written at the onset of the First World War, My Own Story brings attention to Pankhursts cause while defending her decision to cease activism until the end of the war. Notable for its descriptions of the British prison system, My Own Story is an invaluable document of a life dedicated to others, of a historical moment in which an oppressed group rose up to advocate for the simplest of demands: equality. Born in a politically active household, Emmeline Pankhurst was introduced to the womens suffrage movement at a young age. In 1903, she founded the Womens Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organization dedicated to the suffragette movement. As their speeches, rallies, and petitions failed to make headway, they turned to militant protest, and in 1908 Emmeline was arrested for attempting to enter Parliament to deliver a document to Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. Imprisoned for six weeks, she observed the horrifying conditions of prison life, including solitary confinement. This experience changed her outlook on the struggle for womens suffrage, and she increasingly saw imprisonment as a means of radical publicity. Over the next several years, she would be arrested seven times for rioting, destroying property, and assaulting police officers, and while in prison staged hunger strikes in order to gain the attention of the press and political establishment. My Own Story is a record of one womans tireless advocacy for the sake of countless others. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Emmeline Pankhursts My Own Story is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Author: Twain, Mark

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Description wiki: is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870 71 and published in 1872,[2][3] as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869). Roughing It is dedicated to Twains mining companion Calvin H. Higbie, later a civil engineer who died in 1914.[4] The book follows the travels of young Mark Twain through the Wild West during the years 1861 1867. After a brief stint as a Confederate cavalry militiaman (not included in the account), he joined his brother Orion Clemens, who had been appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, on a stagecoach journey west. Twain consulted his brothers diary to refresh his memory and borrowed heavily from his active imagination for many stories in the book. Roughing It illustrates many of Twains early adventures, including a visit to Salt Lake City, gold and silver prospecting, real-estate speculation, a journey to the Kingdom of Hawaii, and his beginnings as a writer. This memoir provides examples of Twains rough-hewn humor, which would become a staple of his writing in such later books as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889).

Description Good Reads: Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain. He wrote it during 1870 71 and published in 1872, as a prequel to his first book The Innocents Abroad (1869). This book tells of Twains adventures prior to his pleasure cruise related in Innocents Abroad

Description Penquin: In 1861, young Mark Twain found himself adrift as a newcomer in the Wild West, working as a civil servant, silver prospector, mill worker, and finally a reporter and traveling lecturer. Roughing It is the hilarious record of those early years traveling from Nevada to California to Hawaii, as Twain tried his luck at anything and everything and usually failed. Twain s encounters with tarantulas and donkeys, vigilantes and volcanoes, even Brigham Young, the Mormon leader, come to life with his inimitable mixture of reporting, social satire, and rollicking tall tales.

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Description Good Reads: The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete by William T. Sherman – The Original Classic Edition Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside: In the preface to the first edition, in 1875, I used these words: Nearly ten years have passed since the close of the civil war in America, and yet no satisfactory history thereof is accessible to the public; nor should any be attempted until the Government has published, and placed within the reach of students, the abundant materials that are buried in the War Department at Washington. …Judge Taylor Shermans family remained in Norwalk till 1815, when his death led to the emigration of the remainder of the family, viz., of Uncle Daniel Sherman, who settled at Monroeville, Ohio, as a farmer, where he lived and died quite recently, leaving children and grandchildren; and an aunt, Betsey, who married Judge Parker, of Mansfield, and died in 1851, leaving children and grandchildren; also Grandmother Elizabeth Stoddard Sherman, who resided with her daughter, Mrs. …My mother had already named her first son after her own brother Charles; and insisted on the second son taking the name of her other brother James, and when I came along, on the 8th of February, 1820, mother having no more brothers, my father succeeded in his original purpose, and named me William Tecumseh. …They said his surf-boat had reached the steamer, had taken on board a load of soldiers, some eight or ten, and had started back through the surf, when on the bar a heavy breaker upset the boat, and all were lost except the boy who pulled the bow-oar, who clung to the rope or painter, hauled himself to the upset boat, held on, drifted with it outside the breakers, and was finally beached near a mile down the coast. …I went out myself, in the whale or surf boat, over that terrible bar with a crew of, soldiers, boarded the steamer, and learned that none other of Ashlocks crew except the one before mentioned had been saved; but, on the contrary, the captain of the steamer had sent one of his own boats to their rescue, which was likewise upset in the surf, and, out of the three men in her, one had drifted back outside the breakers, clinging to the upturned boat, and was picked up.

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Author: Abraham Lincoln

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Description Good Reads: Abraham Lincolns First Inaugural Address, given on March 4, 1861, is a classic document of American History. Text of Lincolns speech is public domain, but the historical commentary and analysis in this ebook is content created by History Guy Media.

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Description wiki: first published in 1865, is a collection of poetry written by American poet Walt Whitman during the American Civil War. 18 additional poems were added later in the year to create

Description Good Reads: Walt Whitman is widely regarded as one of the greats of American literature, despite causing great controversy in his own era, due to the apparent obscenity of his works in particular for his poetic masterpiece Leaves of Grass . This huge collection contains ALL of Walt Whitmans works both poetry and prose. These have been separated into chapters based on the books in which they were originally published, and are as follows: Drum-Taps Leaves of Grass The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman The Complete Prose Works The Wound Dresser The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman. This beautifully designed ebook has an interactive table of contents for ease of navigation, carefully formatted texts and chapter illustrations.

Description Penquin: Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d, Whitman s passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America s most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to create a new, modern poetry of war, a poetry not just of patriotic exhortation but of somber witness. Drum-Taps is thus a central work not only of the Civil War but of our war-torn times. But Drum-Taps as readers know it from Leaves of Grass is different from the work of 1865. Whitman cut and reorganized the book, reducing its breadth of feeling and raw immediacy. This edition, the first to present the book in its original form since its initial publication 150 years ago, is a revelation, allowing one of Whitman s greatest achievements to appear again in all its troubling glory.

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Description wiki: (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was also keeping a record of the trip, published in 1785 as A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. The two narratives are often published as a single volume, which is beneficial for comparing two perspectives of the same events, although they are very different in approach—Johnson focused on Scotland, and Boswell focused on Johnson. (Boswell went on to write a famous biography of Johnson.) In that biography, Boswell gave the itinerary of the trip as beginning at Edinburgh after landing at Berwick upon Tweed, then to St Andrews, Aberdeen, Inverness, and Fort Augustus. From there they went on to the islands of the Hebrides: Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inch Kenneth, and Iona. Returning to the mainland in Argyll they visited Inverary, Loch Lomond, Dumbarton, Glasgow, Loudoun, Auchinleck in Ayrshire (Boswells family home), and Hamilton, and then finished the journey by returning to Edinburgh. Boswell summarised the trip as, “[Johnson] thus saw the four Universities of Scotland, its three principal cities, and as much of the Highland and insular life as was sufficient for his philosophical contemplation

Description Good Reads: This text contains Johnsons descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade and agriculture of a society that was new to him. Boswell offers an intimate personal record of Johnsons behavior and conversation during the trip

Description Penquin: In 1773, the great Samuel Johnson then 63 and his young friend and future biographer, James Boswell, traveled together around the coast of Scotland, each writing his own account of the 83-day journey. Published in one volume, the very different travelogues of this unlikely duo provide a fascinating picture not only of the Scottish Highlands but also of the relationship between two men whose fame would be forever entwined. Johnson s account contains elegant descriptions and analyses of what was then a remote and rugged land. In contrast, the Scottish-born Boswell s journal of the trip focuses on the psychological landscape of his famously gruff and witty companion, and is part of the material he was already collecting for his future Life of Samuel Johnson, the masterly biography that would make his name. Read together, the two accounts form both a unique classic of travel writing and a revelation of one of the most famous literary friendships.

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Author: G. K. Chesterton

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Description Good Reads: G.K. Chesterton was one of the towering figures of British literature in the early twentieth century. A man of massive size, massive personality, and massive appetite, Chesterton famous personality, dress, and personality gave rise to an eponymous adjective: Chestertonian. Although he is renowned for the Father Brown detective series, Chesterton also wrote volumes of nonfiction. First published in 1917, A Short History of England is exactly that, serving Chestertons goal of publishing “a popular book of history written from the standpoint of a member of the public.” Filled with Chestertonian wit, the fast-moving history includes such gemlike observations as, Henry VIII “was almost as unlucky in his wives as they were in their husband.” Of the great late Victorian/Edwardian trio of wits: George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and Chesterton himself, it is Chesterton whose body of work — writing in an unassuming manner, without great pretension — may well persist for future generations far longer than its charming, genial author ever imagined.

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Description wiki: is a collection of short stories by D. H. Lawrence. Individual items were originally written between 1913 and 1921, many of them against the background of World War I. Most of these versions were placed in magazines or periodicals. Ten were later selected and extensively revised by Lawrence for the England, My England volume. This was published on 24 October 1922 by Thomas Seltzer in the US. The first UK edition was published by Martin Secker in 1924.

Description Good Reads: The fourteen short stories collected in this volume were written between 1913 and 1921, most of them against the background of the 1914-18 War. All but one were published on both sides of the Atlantic

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Description wiki: is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym “Publius” to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the 20th century. The first 77 of these essays were published serially in the Independent Journal, the New York Packet, and The Daily Advertiser between October 1787 and April 1788.[1] A compilation of these 77 essays and eight others were published in two volumes as The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787 by publishing firm J. & A. McLean in March and May 1788.[2][3] The last eight papers (Nos. 78 85) were republished in the New York newspapers between June 14 and August 16, 1788. The authors of The Federalist intended to influence the voters to ratify the Constitution. In Federalist No. 1, they explicitly set that debate in broad political terms: It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not, of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend, for their political constitutions, on accident and force.[4] In Federalist No. 10, Madison discusses the means of preventing rule by majority faction and advocates a large, commercial republic. This is complemented by Federalist No. 14, in which Madison takes the measure of the United States, declares it appropriate for an extended republic, and concludes with a memorable defense of the constitutional and political creativity of the Federal Convention.[5] In Federalist No. 84, Hamilton makes the case that there is no need to amend the Constitution by adding a Bill of Rights, insisting that the various provisions in the proposed Constitution protecting liberty amount to a “bill of rights”.[6] Federalist No. 78, also written by Hamilton, lays the groundwork for the doctrine of judicial review by federal courts of federal legislation or executive acts. Federalist No. 70 presents Hamiltons case for a one-man chief executive. In Federalist No. 39, Madison presents the clearest exposition of what has come to be called “Federalism”. In Federalist No. 51, Madison distills arguments for checks and balances in an essay often quoted for its justification of government as “the greatest of all reflections on human nature.” According to historian Richard B. Morris, the essays that make up The Federalist Papers are an “incomparable exposition of the Constitution, a classic in political science unsurpassed in both breadth and depth by the product of any later American writer.”[7] On June 21, 1788, the proposed Constitution was ratified by the minimum of nine states required under Article VII. Towards the end of July 1788, with eleven states having ratified the new Constitution, the process of organizing the new government began.

Description Good Reads: Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written”, The Federalist Papers is a collection of eighty-five essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788, as a means to persuade the public to ratify the Constitution of the United States. With nearly two-thirds of the essays written by Hamilton, this enduring classic is perfect for modern audiences passionate about his work or seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most important documents in US history. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from iconic authors. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or revisit an old favorite, these new editions open the door to the stories and ideas that have shaped our world.

Description Penquin: Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and above all essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. Constitution, draws together the great texts of American civic life to create a timely and informative mini-library of perennially vital issues. Whether readers are encountering these classic writings for the first time, or brushing up in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, these slim volumes will serve as a powerful and illuminating resource for scholars, students, and civic-minded citizens. Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, The Federalist Papers had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. The Federalist Papers make a powerful case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and have only risen in legal influence over the last two centuries. Beeman s analysis helps clarify the goals, at once separate and in concert, of Madison, Hamilton, and Jay during their writing, and his selection of some of the most important papers show the array of issues both philosophical and policy-specific covered by this body of work. The best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written Thomas Jefferson

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Description wiki: The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It tells the story of Lily Bart, a well-born but impoverished woman belonging to New York Citys high society around the end of the 19th century.[a] Wharton creates a portrait of a stunning beauty who, though raised and educated to marry well both socially and economically, is reaching her 29th year, an age when her youthful blush is drawing to a close and her marital prospects are becoming ever more limited. The House of Mirth traces Lilys slow two-year social descent from privilege to a tragically lonely existence on the margins of society. In the words of one scholar, Wharton uses Lily as an attack on “an irresponsible, grasping and morally corrupt upper class.”[2] Before publication as a book on October 14, 1905, The House of Mirth was serialized in Scribners Magazine beginning in January 1905. It attracted a readership among women and men alike. Charles Scribner wrote Wharton in November 1905 that the novel was showing “the most rapid sale of any book ever published by Scribner.”[2] By the end of December, sales had reached 140,000 copies.[2][3] Whartons royalties were valued at more than half a million dollars in todays currency. The commercial and critical success of The House of Mirth solidified Whartons reputation as a major novelist.[3] Because of the novels commercial success, some critics classified it as a genre novel. However, Whartons pastor, then rector of Trinity Church in Manhattan, wrote to tell her that her novel was “a terrible but just arraignment of the social misconduct which begins in folly and ends in moral and spiritual death.”[2][b] This moral purpose was not lost on the literary reviewers and critics of the time who tended to categorize it as both social satire and a novel of manners. When describing it in her introduction to Edith Whartons The House of Mirth: A Case Book, Carol Singley states that the novel “is a unique blend of romance, realism, and naturalism, [and thus] transcends the narrow classification of a novel of manners.”[4][c] The House of Mirth was Whartons second published novel,[2] preceded by two novellas, The Touchstone (1900) and Sanctuary (1903), and a novel, The Valley of Decision (1902).

Description Good Reads: First published in 1905, The House of Mirth shocked the New York society it so deftly chronicles, portraying the moral, social and economic restraints on a woman who dared to claim the privileges of marriage without assuming the responsibilities. Lily Bart, beautiful, witty and sophisticated, is accepted by old money and courted by the growing tribe of nouveaux riches. But as she nears thirty, her foothold becomes precarious; a poor girl with expensive tastes, she needs a husband to preserve her social standing, and to maintain her in the luxury she has come to expect. Whilst many have sought her, something – fastidiousness or integrity- prevents her from making a suitable match.

Description Penquin: ABOUT THE HOUSE OF MIRTH Edith Wharton s classic novel, The House of Mirth, is a brillaint expos of the pretense and greed of fashionable New York Society. In The House of Mirth, which helped to establish Edith Wharton s literary reputation, she honed her acerbic style and discovered her defining subject: the fashionable New York society in which she had been raised and that held the power to debase both people and ideals. In this devastatingly accurate and finely wrought tale, Lily Bart, the poor relation of a wealthy woman, is beautiful, intelligent, and hopelessly addicted to the moneyed world of luxury and grace. But her good taste and moral sensibility render her unfit for survival in a vulgar society whose glittering social edifice is based on a foundation of pure greed. A brilliant portrayal of both human frailty and nobility, and a bitter attack on false social values, The House of Mirth has been hailed by Louis Auchincloss as uniquely authentic among American novels of manners.

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