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Mayne Reid
Quadrupeds, What They Are And Where Found
- Fiction
- English
- 45236 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [more]
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MAYNE REID
The Boy Slaves
- Drama
- English
- 97340 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [more]
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MAYNE REID
THE BOY TAR
- Drama
- English
- 92099 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [more]
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CAPTAIN MAYNE REID
THE BOY HUNTERS
- Adventure
- English
- 91384 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 – October 22, 1883), was a Scots-Irish American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.
Biography Reid was born in Ballyroney, a small hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in the north of Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, so in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Although he stayed for four years, he could not motivate himself enough to complete his studies and receive a degree. He headed back home to Ballyroney to teach school.
In December 1839 he boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840. Shortly afterward he found a job as a clerk for corn factor, or trader in the corn market. He stayed in New Orleans for six months. It is said that he left his position for refusing to whip slaves. (Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his best-selling books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.)
From New Orleans, Reid traveled to Tennessee. On a plantation near Nashville, he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson, who some Reid biographers have confused with the Doctor's father, General James Randolph Robertson. (Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress.) Following Dr. Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived private school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter place seems more likely). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips to the West during this period of his life (on which he purportedly based some of his novels), the evidence for such journeys is sketchy and confusing at best. [more]
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Thaddeus Hutyra
TANGO OF LIFE
Love, desires, yearning to freedom
- Poetry
- English
- 76049 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 879
- 2
' Echoes of Love '
Must I be Shakespeare to express our pure love
one which was definitely greater than life, our elixir
our magnum opus, transcendental and everlasting
We had it so good, enjoying each other seductively
best friends and lovers, or frivolous lovers and friends
difficult to say what was first, or rather both at once
Our love was the Sun splashing us most brightly
and the shimmering stars at fully luminescent nights
sending us ethereal kisses of genuine love incessantly
Our love were beautiful people smiling at us warmly
wishing us all the goodwills there are in the world
and we ourselves, fully united in each other as one
Everything was in place, rightfully and blissfully godly
flawless rivers of honey, seas of boundless beauty
biodiversity serving us as we doing our best for her
But when you went unexpectedly one day away
with no goodbye at all, not even a word of farewell
it was the end of the world for me, Hamlet alike
Stars crashed down on Earth the next moonless night
and I was swept fast away by raging tides of the sea
a castaway on the ocean, in its full and ghostly storm
I was myself a vulnerable bottle with a message inside
saying I love you till the end of the world and beyond
the bottle filled with the tears of my despair, your lover
And the scintillating echoes spread across the world
like the Brazilian tango on the Copacabana beach
just a walking distance from charming Rio de Janeiro
The echoes and echoes, and echoes, and echoes
like the Argentinian tango in elegant Buenos Aires
like the sparkling Parisian tango of truthful lovers
The echoes of tangoes, tinkling, hissing and ringing
whistling, buzzing, rattling, whizzing, jingling like bells
gorgeously dynamic on the streets and in ballrooms
The echoes never ending, in the breezes of winds
blowing ecstatically across vast lands and continents
and under the rhythmic and pulsating symphonic skies
One had impression one saw mysterious Amazons
on wild galloping horses, with manes like wings
seeming to fly in the air but these were just echoes
Echoes of love, passion, desires and ethereal dreams
but above all of the thundering iridescent tangoes
the tangoes of love, dreams which came true, of life
The rhapsodic tangoes in every corner of this world
Oh, long live love, long live tangoes of love !
May dazzling echoes spread you across the world !!
Love yourselves to your best, dear amaranthine lovers
spread your sensual love to every single individual
This world must become a planet of love, now !!
Dance in the various tangoes, whirling tangoes
Not only Argentinian tangoes but also salon tangoes
English tangoes, NeoTango, all the tangoes there are
Forget the sorrows of daily life, the ups and the downs
Give in into the rhythms of hilarious music and dance
and you shall see your loved one is back in your arms
Oh, play us angels music of Chopin and Mozart
play to the echoes of love [more]
Keywords: Tango of Life, tango, poem, poetry, poems, poet, poets, literature, love, freedom, liberty, life
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Tadeusz Hutyra
SYMPHONY OF FREE SPIRITS
- Poetry
- English
- 85453 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 703
- 1
' Lovers of Universe '
You're in my arms, we're in the arms of stars
dancing together in the starlight
while passionately kissing each other
Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust
our love is threaded of rays from the stars
and we're continuing to kiss one another
we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe
And though we're standing on a beach
in the embrace of moonlighted night
chatting in a New York cafe
till the late night hours
or speeding up a car direction California
we're embraced as much by the stars
shining us brilliantly from the luminous sky
Though we're sitting on dangerous cliffs
overlooking the powers of the Poseidon's sea
no matter whether together
or far away from one another
we're still the galactic adventurers
guardians of Universe in love
The echoes of our deep love
spread fast across Scottish land masses
across the Alps, across Carpathians
across mountains of the Caucasus
flying like a mysterious jet plane
and ending somewhere there in China
still being echoed from a wall to a wall
of the ancient Chinese Wall
There is no rest to our passionate love
'cause we are brought on our starship
into furthest dimensions of the many galactics
dancing our love in the never ending starlit space
singing our love to the tunes of various sounds of Universe
and kissing each other with the energy
borrowed from the stars
no need really to return what's borrowed
Oh, my darling, we're destined for each other
never to be split, always together
even if the winds bring us far apart
even if fate not always is favorable
yet we're acquiescent to whatever might happen
'cause we know nothing can split us
We're simply dancing in the arms of stars
dancing together in the starlight
while passionately kissing each other
Our kisses are formed of interstellar dust
our love is threaded of rays from the stars
and we're continuing to kiss one another
we, the amaranthine lovers of Universe
No matter what happens we're together
no matter where you are or I am we're together
Tolstoy's War and Peace, Shakespeare's Hamlet
The Bells brought to life by Edgar Allan Poe
Whatever it might be we're together
destined to one another, married by our love
'cause our love is one, one and only one
'cause our souls are one soul, our hearts are one heart
'cause our desires are one desire, our desire
'cause all we are are two halves being whole
'cause our spirits are mixed by wand of love
into elixir, the elixir of love
Wow, we're dancing in adrenalized Tomorrowland
dancing in Amsterdam's Arena at Sensation White
dancing frenziedly in New York's Boulevard
on Mount Victoria in windy Wellington's starry night
dancing among stars, we, the lovers of Universe !!
Earth and stars are the fields of our love
we're the lovers since Adam and Eve
the amaranthine lovers of Universe
drinking elixirs of love from our lips
elixirs which form us all to who we are
we, the lovers of Universe, forevermore [more]
Keywords: poem, poems, poetry, American poetry, English poetry, world poetry, poetry of the day, poetry of the month, poetry of year, Shakespeare
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Edward Connor
The Blue-Glow Fire Unbeatable Marble
- Humor
- English
- 119721 Words
- Ages 12 and up
- 69
This is a fanciful story as the main character mainly recounts one particularly eventful year of his life as a young boy living in a fictional small town in rural Australia.
Sawtip was a unique hamlet that had strangely attracted a hodgepodge of characters from all over the world. People who never quite felt they belonged anywhere until they found Sawtip.
Among the folk who entered the boy’s life was his teacher, Mr Cramburn; a troubled soul who escaped what he could of life by anchoring himself to his cherished Rules of Life. The somewhat dotty but dear Miss Julia Castalia and Mr Cramburn’s mother whose sad life had turned her into a selfishly possessive parent and drove her son to his excesses, but whose eccentricities revealed a woman of imagination and love.
There were also the O’Nancyitches, an impish family of peplechauns; a cross between leprechauns and people. In particular the daughter of that family, Peggy O’Nancyitch, who kept to herself but was ever present when the young narrator needed rescuing.
The narrator’s family consisted of his nine siblings which included his elder twin brothers whom he had always perceived as the worst of his tormentors. There was his story telling father and his mother, who was always there with tenderness and wise, comforting words. And not to forget the was his walking-stick wielding and cantankerous grandmother who was also always there and always to be avoided.
The narrator’s life revolved around his friends, school, playing marbles, avoiding the bullies and his lifelong infatuation with Charlotte (Prissy-Face) Righteous-Worthington.
Having fun and getting into mischief were prime ingredients in the boy’s life. In pursuit of these he and his companions tormented the valley’s cows into going on a milk strike before getting their revenge.
The young narrator had constantly to be on his toes to cope with the bullies that plagued his life. However although bullies had the brawn he had a reservoir of cunning and imagination and of course Peggy.
Playing marbles was a great attraction to the boys of Sawtip and the narrator was a champion. Unfortunately Simon (the Bulldog from Brooklyn) Jones also fancied himself as a marbles aficionado and worse still he was also enamoured with the beautiful Charlotte. This led to several potentially unpleasant encounters, as she manipulated them both, that culminated in the greatest marbles game in the entire history of all marbles games. It was during that game that the fabled Blue-Glow Fire Unbeatable Marble appeared when utter defeat loomed large.
In adulthood he saw his friends from childhood drifting away and out of his life. His infatuation with Charlotte eventually led to a wedding ceremony, however the enigmatic Peggy O’Nancyitch and another appearance of the mythical Marble saved the young man; this time from a fate of nagging and mundane boredom. [more]
Keywords: Fantasy, Humor, Whimsical
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