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Journey to Mars
A Burroughs-esque "scientific romance" involving ray gun battles, a decadent civilization, and the like.
At Lincoln's Side
John Hay believed that “real history is told in private letters,” and the more than 220 surviving letters and telegrams from his Civil War days prove that to be true, showing Abraham Lincoln in action: “The Tycoon is in fine whack. I have rarely seen him more serene & busy. He is managing this war, the draft, foreign relations, and planning a reconstruction of the Union, all at once. I never knew with what tyrannous authority he rules the Cabinet, till now. The most important things he decides & there is no cavil.” Along with Hay’s personal correspondence, Burlingame includes his surviving official letters. Though lacking the “literary brilliance of [Hay’s] personal letters,” Burlingame explains, “they help flesh out the historical record.” Burlingame also includes some of the letters Hay composed for Lincoln’s signature, including the celebrated letter of condolence to the Widow Bixby. More than an inside glimpse of the Civil War White House, Hay’s surviving correspondence provides a window on the world of nineteenth-century Washington, D.C.
The Last Frontier
The existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life has been a subject of debate since the dawn of recorded history. The Last Frontier, originally published in German in 1983 and now available in Helen Atkins's sensitive English translation, traces the development of the idea that Earth is not the only planet inhabited by intelligent beings, but that there might be a plurality or even an infinity of "worlds" with human or humanoid life. Focusing on the seventeenth to the twentieth century and taking into account theological, philosophical, scientific, popular, and literary writings from American, British, French, and German sources, Karl S. Guthke demonstrates the continuing importance of this question to the process of human self-definition.
Journey to Mars
"This 1894 novel is one of only two that Pope wrote; initially he had intended a series in which every planet was visited. A second title, 'Journey to Venus' was published, but that is all. Little is known about Pope himself, but 'Journey to Mars' is a landmark; it is the earliest known title which can truly be said to be a 'scientific romance' in the sense of the later work of Edgar Rice Burroughs. In point of fact, there is considerable evidence that it inspired the latter's Martian series. The book contains many of the same elements: sword fights together with ray gun battles, Red Martian princesses, tribes of different colors, splintered kingdoms, a decadent civilization with elements of advanced science. A rich mixture, it is a splendidly paced story of high adventure on an alien planet."--Pg. [4] of cover.
Transactions
List of members in each vol.; members from its organization, in v.41, 46.
The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture
Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
Echoes from Niagara
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