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John Habberton
Romance of California Life
- Fiction
- English
- 141735 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
John Habberton was an American author. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life, many of which were collected in his 1880 book Romance of California Life: Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous (New York: Baker, Pratt & Co., 1880).
Habberton also wrote Helen's Babies, published in 1876 by Loring Publisher, Boston; and in the early 20th Century by George Routledge and Sons, London. In most of these copies, Habberton is not listed as the author. The novel is subtitled: "Helen's Babies with some account of their ways...innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive by THEIR LATEST VICTIM." The book was one of the Ruby Books series for boys and girls. Habberton is acknowledged as the author of the book in an advertisement within the 1903 edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales published by Routledge.
Habberton is acknowledged, also, in an inexpensive cardboard-back edition of "Helen's Babies" published by (and copyrighted by!) Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin in 1934. That edition is copiously illustrated by Pauline Adams.
"Helen's Babies" was intended as just a piece of humour and aimed at an adult audience. But the hilarious novel almost instantly became a major juvenile literature success, highly estimated by the youngsters as well as authorities like Rudyard Kipling. It became a classic ranking on par with "Tom Sawyer", "Wind in the Willows", "Winnie-the Pooh" and the like. Popularity dwindled a bit after WW-II (although George Orwell mentions it very favourably in his 1946 essay on early American literature, "Riding Down from Bangor"), but started rising again in the 1980s. Translated into numerous foreign languages, it secured Habberton's modest share of immortality in literature.
Curiously, as being one of the first pieces of an author, so insecure about his abilities, that he omitted his author name resp. wrote under pseudonym for many years.
Habberton was also known under the pseudonym "Smelfungus." [more]
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ARTHUR SYMONS
PLAYS, ACTING AND MUSIC
- Family & Relationships
- English
- 55468 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Arthur William Symons (28 February 1865 – 22 January 1945), was a British poet, criticBorn in Milford Haven, Wales, of Cornish parents, Symons was educated privately, spending much of his time in France and Italy. In 1884–1886 he edited four of Bernard Quaritch's Shakespeare Quarto Facsimiles, and in 1888–1889 seven plays of the "Henry Irving" Shakespeare. He became a member of the staff of the Athenaeum in 1891, and of the Saturday Review in 1894, but his major editorial feat was his work with the short-lived Savoy.
His first volume of verse, Days and Nights (1889), consisted of dramatic monologues. His later verse is influenced by a close study of modern French writers, of Charles Baudelaire, and especially of Paul Verlaine. He reflects French tendencies both in the subject-matter and style of his poems, in their eroticism and their vividness of description. Symons contributed poems and essays to The Yellow Book, including an important piece which was later expanded into The Symbolist Movement in Literature, which would have a major influence on William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot. From late 1895 through 1896 he edited, along with Aubrey Beardsley and Leonard Smithers, The Savoy, a literary magazine which published both art and literature. Noteworthy contributors included Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Joseph Conrad. Symons was also a member of the Rhymer's Club founded by Yeats in 1890. [1]
In 1892, The Minister's Call, Symons's first play, was produced by the Independent Theatre Society – a private club – to avoid censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's Office.[2]
In 1902 Symons made a selection from his earlier verse, published as Poems. He translated from the Italian of Gabriele D'Annunzio The Dead City (1900) and The Child of Pleasure (1898), and from the French of Émile Verhaeren The Dawn (1898). To The Poems of Ernest Dowson (1905) he prefixed an essay on the deceased poet, who was a kind of English Verlaine and had many attractions for Symons. In 1909 Symons suffered a psychotic breakdown, and published very little new work for a period of more than twenty years. His Confessions: A Study in Pathology (1930) has a moving description of his breakdown and treatment. and magazine editor. [more]
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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
POEMS OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
- Poetry
- English
- 139003 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
James Russell Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
Lowell graduated from Harvard College in 1838, despite his reputation as a troublemaker, and went on to earn a law degree from Harvard Law School. He published his first collection of poetry in 1841 and married Maria White in 1844. He and his wife had several children, though only one survived past childhood. The couple soon became involved in the movement to abolish slavery, with Lowell using poetry to express his anti-slavery views and taking a job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the editor of an abolitionist newspaper. After moving back to Cambridge, Lowell was one of the founders of a journal called The Pioneer, which lasted only three issues. He gained notoriety in 1848 with the publication of A Fable for Critics, a book-length poem satirizing contemporary critics and poets. The same year, he published The Biglow Papers, which increased his fame. He went on to publish several other poetry collections and essay collections throughout his literary career.
Maria White died in 1853, and Lowell accepted a professorship of languages at Harvard in 1854; he continued to teach there for twenty years. He traveled to Europe before officially assuming his role in 1856. He married his second wife, Frances Dunlap, shortly thereafter in 1857. That year Lowell also became editor of The Atlantic Monthly. It was not until 20 years later that Lowell received his first political appointment, the ambassadorship to the Kingdom of Spain. He was later appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He spent his last years in Cambridge, in the same estate where he was born, and died there in 1891.
Lowell believed that the poet played an important role as a prophet and critic of society. He used poetry for reform, particularly in abolitionism. However, Lowell's commitment to the anti-slavery cause wavered over the years, as did his opinion on African-Americans. Lowell attempted to emulate the true Yankee accent in the dialogue of his characters, particularly in The Biglow Papers. This depiction of the dialect, as well as Lowell's many satires, was an inspiration to writers like Mark Twain and H.L. Mencken. [more]
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JOHN HABBERTON
ROMANCE OF CALIFORNIA LIFE
- Romance
- English
- 139651 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
John Habberton (1842–1921) was an American author. He spent nearly twenty years as the literary and drama critic for the New York Herald, but he is best known for his stories about early California life, many of which were collected in his 1880 book Romance of California Life: Illustrated by Pacific Slope Stories, Thrilling, Pathetic and Humorous (New York: Baker, Pratt & Co., 1880).
Habberton also wrote Helen's Babies, published in 1876 by Loring Publisher, Boston; and in the early 20th Century by George Routledge and Sons, London. In most of these copies, Habberton is not listed as the author. The novel is subtitled: "Helen's Babies with some account of their ways...innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and repulsive by THEIR LATEST VICTIM." The book was one of the Ruby Books series for boys and girls. Habberton is acknowledged as the author of the book in an advertisement within the 1903 edition of Andersen's Fairy Tales published by Routledge.
Habberton is acknowledged, also, in an inexpensive cardboard-back edition of "Helen's Babies" published by (and copyrighted by!) Whitman Publishing Company of Racine, Wisconsin in 1934. That edition is copiously illustrated by Pauline Adams.
"Helen's Babies" was intended as just a piece of humour and aimed at an adult audience. But the hilarious novel almost instantly became a major juvenile literature success, highly estimated by the youngsters as well as authorities like Rudyard Kipling. It became a classic ranking on par with "Tom Sawyer", "Wind in the Willows", "Winnie-the Pooh" and the like. Popularity dwindled a bit after WW-II (although George Orwell mentions it very favourably in his 1946 essay on early American literature, "Riding Down from Bangor"), but started rising again in the 1980s. Translated into numerous foreign languages, it secured Habberton's modest share of immortality in literature.
Curiously, as being one of the first pieces of an author, so insecure about his abilities, that he omitted his author name resp. wrote under pseudonym for many years.
Habberton was also known under the pseudonym "Smelfungus." (Source: Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises by Cushing, William). [more]
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Jürgen vom Scheidt
Männer gegen Raum und Zeit
- Science Fiction
- German
- 77369 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 274
- 1
Eine bemerkenswerte Veröffentlichung bringt der vss-verlag im April 2015. Das eBook
enthält zum einen den bereits 1957 von dem damals 17jährigen Jürgen vom Scheidt geschriebenen Roman in ungekürzter und vom heute 75 Jahre alten Autor aktuell überarbeiteten Fassung.
Zum Zweiten einen Anhang, fast in gleicher Länge wie der Roman selbst, ein autobiographisches Essay, in dem Jürgen vom Scheidt, heute ein vielbeachteter Psyschologe, Sachbuch- und SF-Autor und Veranstalter sehr beliebter Schreibseminare, auf die fast 60 Jahre, die seit der Erstveröffentlichung seines Erstlings vergangen sind, zurückblickt, und damit fast eine Geschichte der Science-Fiction in Deutschland seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg liefert.
Ein faszinierendes Werk für alle SF-Freunde, die sich mit etwas mehr als dem reinen Konsum spannender Romanlektüre (der im Roman selbst allemal geboten wird) befassen wollen.
Romaninhalt:
Die letzte Transition brachte die Raumkugel "Magellan" in das unbekannte Gebiet der acht Sonnen. Dort draußen - durch unzählige Lichtjahre von zu Hause getrennt - wurden sechs Männer von vier verschiedenen Planeten in einen Strudel unglaublicher Abenteuer gerissen. Sie befanden sich mitten im Zentrum der Katastrophe, als die Ultrasupernova acht Fixsterne zu einer einzigen Atomhölle verschmolz und jenes Stäubchen "Magellan" über den Abgrund zwischen den Milchstraßensystemen schleuderte.
Die Suche nach normalen Welten in einem Spiralnebel, der zu über neunzig Prozent aus Antimaterie bestand, dauerte lange, aber sie hatten Erfolg! Sie fanden Sarel, die silberne Sonne, und den Planeten Paradon, auf dem sie die überraschende Lösung eines der größten Welträtsel erwartete.
Was verwandelte jenen Mond in eine bösartig glühende Atomhölle? Wer schuf die herrlichen Städte auf einem Planeten, der nur von singenden Automaten "belebt" war?
Aber wichtiger noch als die Beantwortung dieser Fragen war die Lösung des Problems, den Rückweg durch Raum und Zeit in die heimatliche Galaxis zu finden. Zur Lösung dieser Aufgabe hätte man einen vierwertig logischen Superrobot benötigt, und selbst der geniale Kommandant Rani stand dieser Aufgabe machtlos gegenüber, bis . .
Ja, bis eine Macht eingriff, die alles andere an Unglaublichkeit noch übertraf!
Alin, der Android, wurde durch die Männer der "Magellan" von einem Los befreit, wie es noch kein Wesen zuvor erlitten hatte, und er zeigte seine Dankbarkeit, indem er ihnen den Weg in die so ferne Heimat wies. Er stieß damit das Tor zu einem neuen Zeitalter auf, das die unfaßbaren Wunder des 8. Jahrtausends noch um vieles übertraf.
Ein Sternenabenteuer, das uns die Unglaublichkeiten einer fernen Zukunft plastisch vor Augen führt, aber auch eine gewaltige Mahnung für unser Zeitalter, das sich anschickt, Konflikte zu entfesseln, die uns heute noch unvorstellbar erscheinen, und gleichzeitig der Versuch eines Ausweges aus dieser Gefahr. [more]
Keywords: Science-Fiction, Abenteuer, Weltraum, Space-Opera, Weltraumoper, Raumschiff, Planet, Galaxis, Universum
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Lisa Mondschein
Entbehrung ohne Zuversicht
Des einen Pech, des anderen Glück?
- Satire
- German
- 100 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 135
- 1
Mein erstes multimediales Drabble ist nun so, wie ich es von Anfang an haben wollte. Erst heute, habe nämlich auch ich endlich herausgefunden, wie ich in die Drabbles auch direkte Internetlinks mit einbinden kann. Wie das funktioniert, könnt ihr nach dem Lesen des Drabble, gleich selbst, mit den drei links im Epilog, ausprobieren.
Im neuen Drabble zum Thema: Glück, Unglück, Entbehrung und Zuversicht, geht es am Beispiel einer total verrückten Krankheit auch wieder um: Behinderung, Selbstbestimmung, Toleranz und Respekt. Weil sich daraus eine extrem schrille neue Sicht auf die Inklusion ergibt, folgt auf das Drabble in den nächten Tagen mein erster Essay mit dem derzeitigen Arbeitstitel:
"Subjektives objektiv zum Thema: Mensch"
Die neue Geschichte beginnt ganz harmlos mit einer Musterschülerin, die bedingt durch sozialen und schulischen Leistungsdruck, mit Drogen in eine erbarmungslos dunkle Welt mit käuflicher Liebe und Sex abrutscht. Erst zum Schluss werdet ihr erkennen, was ihr wirklich fehlt.
Wie würde es in unserer Gesellschaft mit der Toleranz und dem Repekt denn dann aussehen, wenn es ähnlich wie bei der kontrovers diskutierten aktiven Sterbehilfe plötzlich auch um "Behinderungen auf Verlangen" gehen würde?
Aber wer wünscht sich schon Demenz? Und falls doch? Wer oder was hilft dann noch? Als Hausmittel, so hört man, hätten sich in diesen Fällen berauschende Gifte, Alkohol und Rauchwaren, zwischenzeitlich bestens bewährt. Klar, die Nebenwirkungen sind schädlich. Schädlich für Mensch und Gesellschaft. Drogen verboten? Ok! Warum nicht auch Depressionen und Alkohlsucht auch gleich mitverbieten? Das tut doch fast genauso wenig gut, wie der Konsum von Drogen!
Wie denkt ihr denn über diese irre Krankheit? Eine Krankheit verbieten? Coole Idee! Dann aber bitte zuerst ein Covid19 Verbot. Danach könnten wir uns viel entspannter überlegen, ob wir der Protagonistin im Drabble auch zukünftig Erlösung verweigern wollen, weil wir, die Gesellschaft, uns nicht anders helfen wissen, als nur mit wegschauen, halbwegs ethisch mit einem neuen Problem umzugehen.
Schreibt euch doch einfach über die Kommentare zu meinem Drabble, was euch dazu einfällt.
Wie immer zum Schluss noch ein Paar bissige Grüße von mir,
Lisa [more]
Keywords: Einschränkung, Behinderung, Teilhabe, Selbstbestimmng, Amputation, Satiere, Psyche, Psychologie, Medizin, Pretendern, Illegal, Rotlicht, Sex, Prostitution, Meth, Goth, Gothic, SM, Rauschgift, Verstümmelung [more]
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Florence Caddy
Household Organization
- Fiction
- English
- 41411 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
PREFACE.
One fine August bank-holiday many thoughts, more or less connected with
the day, prompted me to write this essay, so forcibly did it appear
that people required help to make their lives easier and happier.
Since then there have been several bank-holidays; and though trade is
depressed throughout the country, though financial panic has ruined
thousands, yet the demand for beer, spirits, and tobacco is as great as
ever; the hollow gaieties of life are as noisy as ever--perhaps the
more so for being more hollow; still our most precious friends kill
themselves with overwork--mental pulverization. If they eased their
minds by employing their hands they might yet live, even though many
could not, last autumn, afford to buy the breath of sea or mountain air
which would have strengthened them for the burdens of the new year.
Those who were wise and who had capital invested it in health, that
being likely to bring them in the best return.
We have had seven years of the highest national prosperity. Although
fictitious, it gave us pleasure while it lasted, and we were able to
enjoy all that life has to offer in its perfection. We may be going to
pass through seven years of dearth, so we must husband our resources of
health and wealth, instead of drawing upon them in the reckless way we
have lately accustomed ourselves to do. Some years of scarcity may be a
blessing to us all, if they lead us back from the habits of excess and
idleness we have fallen into, and particularly the craving for
excitement, whether in the form of literature, or by means of
stimulants and cordials (absinthe).
A plain but short statement of our national losses will show the
necessity of economizing the goods we still possess, financial as well
as physical.
Independent of the stagnation of trade which paralyzes every branch of
our commerce, we have lately had losses through foreign loans more
severe than any we have experienced during the present century.
Since the announcement by Turkey in October, 1875, that the interest on
the Turkish debt would be reduced, there has been a great fall in
foreign stocks. The debt of Turkey--roughly speaking, £200,000,000--has
fallen, say, £125,000,000 in value. Egyptian securities, not including
the floating debt, approximately estimated at £60,000,000, have fallen
some £20,000,000 in value. In smaller stocks the fall has probably been
some £20,000,000; and since the breaking out of the Eastern Question,
Russian stocks, at an aggregate of about £165,000,000, have fallen 12
per cent., or a sum equal to more than £20,000,000 sterling.
Besides these calamities there have been in England, as shown by a
recent return, 1,797 commercial failures, representing liabilities of
£30,000,000 sterling, and it has been calculated that of the firms and
persons occupied in business, 3 per cent. have been unable to meet
their engagements.
These losses will account for less familiar faces being seen in the
Park in the season, for the numerous houses [more]
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