Monatsarchive: Juni 2017

Mrs. Albert Grundy – Observations in Philistia – Harold Frederic

“The Market-Place” throbs with the hum of life, and the wild, mad chorus of the market-place rises from its pages crescendo to a tremendous finale. To transfer the “city” to the printed page is a wonderful achievement. In “The Market-Place” his multitudinous, extravagant, corrupt, but extraordinarily fascinating “city” lives, moves and has its being. Harold Frederic must have had intimate acquaintance with its secrets, for there is not an impossible incident in his novel, and much is a transcript from reality. To many this book will seem the wildest of extravaganzas, a romance of the realms of Zenda—a stirring, exciting romance, too. To those who possess the key to the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Market-Place – Harold Frederic

“The Market-Place” throbs with the hum of life, and the wild, mad chorus of the market-place rises from its pages crescendo to a tremendous finale. To transfer the “city” to the printed page is a wonderful achievement. In “The Market-Place” his multitudinous, extravagant, corrupt, but extraordinarily fascinating “city” lives, moves and has its being. Harold Frederic must have had intimate acquaintance with its secrets, for there is not an impossible incident in his novel, and much is a transcript from reality. To many this book will seem the wildest of extravaganzas, a romance of the realms of Zenda—a stirring, exciting romance, too. To those who possess the key to the book, it is a ruthless … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Gloria Mundi – Harold Frederic

A young man bred in refined poverty abroad, is suddenly called to England, and told he is the heir to a dukedom and much wealth. From this high pinnacle of expectation he perceives the possibilities of his new fortunes. He can turn into a rowdy, brutal, hunting squire, like the majority of his relations; he can lead the life of a rich man of fashion in London; he can be a disciple of a philathropic uncle and cousin, who have organised their vast wealth for the benefit of their dependents. From the first he instinctively recoils; the second tires him out. By the terribly minute system, the benevolent tyranny of the third, he is oppressed. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

March Hares – Harold Frederic

With “March Hares” Mr. Frederic has written an original, witty, and delightful story. Mr. David Mosscrop is a young and erudite Scot, given to an indulgence in too much drink. One morning, in a melancholy and repentant mood, he is lounging on Westminster Bridge, when a young woman, with lemon-colored hair, comes by. Since they are both frequenters of the reading-room in the British Museum, they have some knowledge of each other. Together they walk away to breakfast. Love takes its usual eccentric gait, but in the end there is the noise of wedding bells.

March Hares

March Hares.

ISBN: 9783849681791

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Biography of Harold Frederic (from Wikipedia):

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Marsena (and other stories of wartime) – Harold Frederic

a Methodist minister, self-educated, untutored in the ways of the world, and intensely earnest. He is brought into intimate association with a woman who is in every way his spiritual and intellectual antithesis

Marsena (and other stories of wartime)

Marsena (and other stories of wartime).

ISBN: 9783849681777

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Biography of Harold Frederic (from Wikipedia):

Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a railroad accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at age fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Damnation of Theron Ware – Harold Frederic

The central figure in Harold Frederic’s novel is a Methodist minister, self-educated, untutored in the ways of the world, and intensely earnest. He is brought into intimate association with a woman who is in every way his spiritual and intellectual antithesis — a Roman Catholic, brilliant, beautiful, and self-indulgent, who seeks a new sensation in tempting the raw country preacher who has yet to learn the perils of a prolonged flirtation. The scene, like that of most of Mr. Frederic’s books, is laid in a small country town, and he once more draws to the life the crudities and curiosities of American provincial life.

The Damnation of Theron Ware

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The Copperhead – Harold Frederic

“The Copperhead” is a farmer in northern New York who sympathizes with the South in the anti-slavery struggle, and who in consequence is boycotted by his neighbors. He is driven from church, not allowed to sell his milk at the neighborhood creamery, and in a hundred ways ostracized and treated with scorn. To add to his burden, his son falls in love with the daughter of the arch-enemy of the family, a ranting Abolitionist, and then goes to the war, only to be reported ” missing” after the battle of Antietam. Finally the farmer’s house is set on fire by a crowd of young roysterers who have come with the intention of tarring and feathering … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Lawton Girl – Harold Frederic

In “The Lawton Girl” Mr. Harold Frederic has given us another highly realistic and instructive study of life in a modern American manufacturing town. The perils that beset the path of those who have riches, the temptations in the way of those who would be rich, the problems arising before society in the matter of providing ways for the moral elevation and intellectual enlightenment of the laboring classes, these are all involved in the story, but it is the heroism, the self-devotion, and the final tragic triumph of one poor girl which form the central motive of a discerning and impressive book. Mr. Frederic has a wonderful command of his material. The whole atmosphere … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

In the Valley – Harold Frederic

Harold Frederic has added a most picturesque and interesting region to those celebrated in American fiction. The Mohawk valley of central New York is rich in tradition, in the memory of stirring events, brave deeds, and heroic men, and, above all, in the patriotism of its people. It is endeared to the author of this story by the associations of his youth, and he has already made it the setting for two novels of modern life. In “In the Valley” Mr. Frederic has gone back to the romantic period of the French and Indian, and Revolutionary wars. The daring men and remarkable adventures are the background for a love romance, which is the chief … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Seth’s Brother’s Wife – Harold Frederic

A strong story of every-day life and one essentially American. Seth Fairchild’s experience as a green country boy on a great city daily, of which he finally becomes the editor, is true to the life, and not without its lesson. Isabel,” Seth’s brother’s wife,” is the central figure of a love story which is full of dark shadows. A murder and many realistic descriptions of rural New York life and character are among the elements which go to make up an unusually fresh and original novel.

Seth’s Brother’s Wife

Seth’s Brother’s Wife.

ISBN: 9783849681920

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Biography of Harold Frederic (from Wikipedia):

Frederic was born in Utica, New York, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...