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Author : Fitz James O'Brien,William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019946115
Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : American literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1104671611
Author : Fitz James 1828-1862 O'Brien,William 1836-1917 Winter,John Wilson and Son (1881) Bkp Cu-Banc
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1363831372
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1333606680
Excerpt from The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'brien: Collected and Edited, With a Sketch of the Author Health, Bird Gossip, and A Paper of All Sorts, and seven miscellaneous poems, all published in Harper; his Fragments from an Unpublished Magazine, which appeared in the Democratic Review, in September, October, and December, 1852; his series of sketches, called The Man about Town, begun in Harper's Weekly, and con tinued in Frank H. Bellew's Picayune; his dramatic re views, contributed to the Saturday Press in 1858 - 59; a number of papers in the old series of Putnam many mis cellaneous articles in the Home Journal, the Lantern, Van ity Fair, and other papers; more than twenty stories; and six plays. It is said that he began, and partly com posed, a tragedy on the subject of Samson but I have not been able to find it. He undertook to write, for Leslie's Stars and Stripes, - a paper published, during about six months, in I859, - a romance entitled The Scarlet Pet ticoat; but this has not been found. He began, in Bel lew's Picayune, March 27th, 1858, a story called From Hand to Mouth; but he left it incomplete, and it was finished either by Bellew or by Pool, his sub-editor. He wrote discursive articles on many subjects. He was surprisingly apt at jest, and squib, and song. With a rare aptitude for literature, he possessed also an extraordinary faculty for journalism. I have traced his busy pen in many places. He was the most industrious idle man that ever I have known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1335768539
Author : William 1836-1917 Ed Winter,Fitz-James 1828-1862 O'Brien
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1371921776
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150420154X
Hardcover reprint of the original 1881 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: O'Brien, Fitz James. The Poems And Stories Of Fitz-James O'Brien. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: O'Brien, Fitz James. The Poems And Stories Of Fitz-James O'Brien, . Boston, J. R. Osgood And Company, 1881.
Author : William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 079503234X
Author : Fitz-James O'Brien,Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780940922
An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.
Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Bit O'Irish Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692131582
"Fitz-James O'Brien is the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft in modern horror literature . . . and [was] imitated by such authors as Ambrose Bierce, Guy de Maupassant, and F. Marion Crawford." Jessica Amanda Salmonson "Fitz-James O'Brien was the most distinguished short story teller between Edgar Allan Poe and Bret Harte." Edward J. O'Brien "[When O'Brien] turned to science fiction & fantasy he begin to display the full force of his truly outstanding talents." Sam Moskowitz "O'Brien's early death undoubtedly deprived us of some masterful tales of strangeness and terror." H.P. Lovecraft For the first time, all the major writings of Fitz-James O'Brien will be published in a multi-volume edition. This is an important publishing event, making the writings of this long-lost nineteenth-century Irish-American writer available to the public in a uniform and scholarly edition. Fitz-James O'Brien (1826/8-1862) came to the United States from Ireland in 1852 looking to make his way in the literary world. With impressive recommendations in hand, he had no trouble finding work and immediately started editing and publishing stories and poetry, along with other things, in some of the most influential magazines of the day. When the Civil War began, he joined the Union army and was fatally wounded in 1862. H.P. Lovecraft said of O'Brien, in his important survey of supernatural literature, Supernatural Horror in Literature, "O'Brien's early death undoubtedly deprived us of some masterful tales of strangeness and terror." O'Brien is one of the most important American writers in between the first and the second half of the nineteenth-century. His short stories follow the same natural and supernatural horror, philosophical observations of human nature, and social criticisms as those of the great American triumvirate - Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. It was Poe that had a particularly strong influence on his writing, but the influence of all three of these writers can be seen in his stories. This is the third volume of an anticipated five-volume edition of The Collected Writings of Fitz-James O'Brien. This volume will include all his poetry and music. For the introduction of these volumes, William Winter's sketch of O'Brien (from the introduction of the first collected edition of his works) has been included. Volume One will include all his short stories from the periods 1851 - 1855. Volume Two will include all his short stories from the periods 1856 through 1862, the year of his death. Volume Four will include miscellaneous writings, including the complete "The Man About Town" series, and other journalism, as well as the novella "The Phantom Light" and his popular play, "A Gentleman from Ireland." And Volume Five will include all biographical material about O'Brien. A Bit O'Irish Press is pleased to offer the writings of this important Irish-American writer of supernatural and weird fiction.
Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547321705
The Wondersmith is a spooky Christmas story by Fitz-James O'Brien. O'Brien was an Irish author often considered one of the forerunners of the sci-fi genre. Excerpt: "Zonela was surely not of gypsy blood. That rich auburn hair, that looked almost black in the lamp-light, that pale, transparent skin, tinged with an under-glow of warm rich blood, the hazel eyes, large and soft as those of a fawn, were never begotten of a Zingaro. Zonela was seemingly about sixteen; her figure, although somewhat thin and angular, was full of the unconscious grace of youth."
Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611494020
his volume forms part of a continuing initiative by Wayne R. Kime to make available the writings of Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862), an Irish-American literary man who during his lifetime won reputation as one of the most talented young authors in the United States, but who has been all but forgotten since. It follows Fitz-James O'Brien: Selected Literary Journalism, 1852-1860 (Susquehanna University Press, 2003) and Behind the Curtain: Selected Fiction of Fitz-James O'Brien (University of Delaware Press and Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2011), both edited by Kime. Like its predecessors, the volume offers evidence that "not only for his vivid contemporaneity but also for his originality, range, and technical skill" (Fitz-James O'Brien: Selected Literary Journalism, 10), O'Brien's claim to lasting memory was well justified. Thirteen Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien: The Realm of Mind presents a group of works that explore one of the author's special interests, the representation of individual consciousness. All but three of the stories are reprinted here for the first time. The works are arranged chronologically, by date of publication, under five headings: Expanded Faculties ("The Old Boy," "The Spider's Eye," "Seeing the World"), Induced Visions ("The Hasheesh Eater," "Broadway Bedeviled"), New Knowledge ("Mr. Grubbe's Night with Memnon," "The Golden Ingot," "How I Overcame My Gravity"), Love and Hate ("Number 101," "Jubal, the Ringer"), and Dreams ("A Terrible Night," "The Crystal Bell," "From Hand to Mouth"). A general introduction, brief introductions to the individual stories, and explanatory notes complement the reprinted texts. The volume has been designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers.
Author : Fitz James O'Brien,August Nemo
Publisher : Tacet Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783967991017
Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-born American author whose psychologically penetrating tales of pseudoscience and the uncanny made him one of the forerunners of modern science fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - Thw Wondersmith.
Author : Wayne R. Kime
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611490473
In the decade that followed his emigration to the United States in 1851, Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) produced a steady stream of contributions to American newspapers and magazines. As short story writer, essayist, poet, dramatist, reporter, reviewer, drama critic, and editor he won reputation as one of the ablest young writers in New York City, displaying what one contemporary termed an 'extraordinary' talent. But soon after his early death from complications of a battle wound, the sense of wonder at O'Brien's prolific accomplishments began to dissipate. In 1881 his friend William Winter brought out The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien, a one-volume collection that spared him the oblivion that awaits even the ablest magazine writers. That book, with reprintings derived from it, has formed almost by itself the basis for O'Brien's lasting reputation. In the early decades of the twentieth century O'Brien continued to be admired as the most significant practitioner in the short story in the United States of the 1850s. However, since then the recognition of his achievement has focused on a few tales of the macabre and the supernatural. He is now remembered in two unrelated contexts: as a colorful member of the 'Bohemian' circle that flourished in New York City in the years prior to the Civil War, and as author of such stories as 'The Diamond Lens,' 'The Lost Room,' and 'What Was It? A Mystery.' The present volume re-introduces the fiction of Fitz-James O'Brien to modern readers by presenting fourteen of his works, five here reprinted for the first time, that together suggest the development and range of his accomplishment as a short story writer. Additionally, editorial commentary on individual stories reveals O'Brien's attunement to the fashions, fads, interests, and concerns that manifested themselves in his adopted city and country. Though immersed in the details of his own era, O'Brien cherished a belief that some of his writings would live beyond it. The present collection offers evidence that, not only for his vivid contemporaneity but also for his innovativeness and technical skill, the young author's hope for lasting memory as a writer of short fiction was well founded. The volume comprises, first, an introduction that sketches O'Brien's literary career and traces his development as a fiction writer. The stories appear next, arranged chronologically in the order of their publication. Each is preceded by editorial commentary that affords information about its place in the author's career and identifies events and circumstances surrounding its publication. O'Brien's frequent references to persons, places, books, and events that may require identification are explained in the notes that follow each story. A bibliography and an index conclude the volume.
