The Diamond Lens And Other Stories

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien,Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780940922

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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,William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HN23WR

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The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien,William Winter Pdf

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Ams PressInc
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0404006132

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The Diamond Lens and Other Stories by Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1592249159

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The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales by Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

Fitz-James O'Brien lived only 33 years -- from 1828 till 1862 -- but in his brief life he left a mark that endures today. O'Brien endures because he was a remarkable writer. Remarkable indeed He had a way of blending of hard fact with almost-fanciful fantasy, juxtaposing technology and mysticism, creating convincing and scientific settings that play against the otherworldly romance. For all the weird fancifulness -- these days O'Brien is read mostly as a successor to Poe -- his work has qualities we now associate with science fiction: O'Brien clearly researched the field of microscopy before he wrote _The Diamond Lens_; it reads in places like hard SF.

Author : Fitz James O'Brien,William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:122927521

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The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'Brien,William Winter Pdf

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798705979202

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The Diamond Lens Fitz James O'Brien

Author : Fitz-James O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1839679948

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Diamond Lens & Other Stories by Fitz-James O'Brien Pdf

Author : O''Brien Fitz James
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1318880289

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1230293434

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The Diamond Lens; with Other Stories by Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... meaning: desperate appeals, perhaps, from Tom, the baker's assistant, to Amelia, the daughter of the dry-goods retailer, who is always selling at a sacrifice in consequence of the late fire. That may be Tom himself who is now passing me in a white apron, and I look up at the windows of the house (which does not, however, give any signs of a recent conflagration) and almost hope to see Amelia wave a white pocket-handkerchief. The bit of orange-peel lying on the sidewalk inspires thought. Who will fall over it 1 who but the industrious mother of six children, the youngest of which is only nine months old, all of whom are dependent on her exertions for support 1 I see her slip and tumble. I see the pale face convulsed with agony, and the vain struggle to get up; the pitying crowd closing her off from all air; the anxious young doctor who happened to be passing by; the manipulation of the broken limb, the shake of the head, the moan of the victim, the litter borne on men's shoulders, the gates of the New York Hospital unclosing, the subscription taken up on the spot. There is some food for speculation in that three-year-old, tattered child, masked with dirt, who is throwing a brick at another three-year-old, tattered child, masked with dirt. It is not difficult to perceive that he is destined to lurk, as it were, through life. His bad, flat face -- or, at least, what can be seen of it -- does not look as if it were made for the light of day. The mire in which he wallows now is but a type of the moral mire in which he will wallow hereafter. The feeble little hand lifted at this instant to smite his companion, half in earnest, half in jest, will be raised against his fellowbeings forevermore, Golosh Street -- as I will call this nameless lane...

Author : Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590730129

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The diamond lens: and other stories, collected and ed. by W. Winter by Michael Fitz-James De C. O'Brien Pdf

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Borgo Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1592249140

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The Diamond Lens and Other Strange Tales by Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

Fitz-James O'Brien lived only 33 years -- from 1828 till 1862 -- but in his brief life he left a mark that endures today. O'Brien endures because he was a remarkable writer. Remarkable indeed He had a way of blending of hard fact with almost-fanciful fantasy, juxtaposing technology and mysticism, creating convincing and scientific settings that play against the otherworldly romance. For all the weird fancifulness -- these days O'Brien is read mostly as a successor to Poe -- his work has qualities we now associate with science fiction: O'Brien clearly researched the field of microscopy before he wrote _The Diamond Lens_; it reads in places like hard SF. (Jacketless library hardcover.)

Author : Fitz James O'brien
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534974229

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The Diamond Lens by Fitz James O'brien Pdf

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Author : Fitz-James O' Brien
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1715584899

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The Diamond Lens (Esprios Classics) by Fitz-James O' Brien Pdf

Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an Irish author and is often considered one of the forerunners of today's Science Fiction. He travelled to the United States in 1852. His earliest writings in the United States were contributed to the Lantern, which was then edited by John Brougham. Subsequently he wrote for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. His first important literary connection was with Harper's Magazine, and beginning in 1853, with The Two Skulls, he contributed more than sixty articles in prose and verse to that periodical. He likewise wrote for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam's Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly. To the latter he sent The Diamond Lens (1858) and The Wondersmith (1859).

Author : Fitz James O'Brien
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798599454236

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The Diamond Lens Illustrated by Fitz James O'Brien Pdf

The diamond lens " is a novel written by Fitz James O'Brien in 1858. The story is about a man who falls in love with a being he sees through a microscope in a drop of water.

Author : Thomas Nelson Page
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433076060221

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Elsket, and Other Stories by Thomas Nelson Page Pdf

I spent a month of the summer of 188- in Norway-"Old Norway"-and a friend of mine, Dr. John Robson, who is as great a fisherman as he is a physician, and knows that I love a stream where the trout and I can meet each other alone, and have it out face to face, uninterrupted by any interlopers, did me a favor to which I was indebted for the experience related below. He had been to Norway two years before, and he let me into the secret of an unexplored region between the Nord Fiord and the Romsdal. I cannot give the name of the place, because even now it has not been fully explored, and he bound me by a solemn promise that I would not divulge it to a single soul, actually going to the length of insisting on my adding a formal oath to my affirmation. This I consented to because I knew that my friend was a humorous man, and also because otherwise he positively refused to inform me where the streams were about which he had been telling such fabulous fish stories. "No," he said, "some of those -- cattle who think they own the earth and have a right to fool women at will and know how to fish, will be poking in there, worrying Olaf and Elsket, and ruining the fishing, and I'll be -- if I tell you unless you make oath." My friend is a swearing man, though he says he swears for emphasis, not blasphemy, and on this occasion he swore with extreme solemnity. I saw that he was in earnest, so made affidavit and was rewarded.