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The Flying Death
A group of house guests staying at a private retreat on Long Island are awakened one night by a horrifying cacophony. When they set off to investigate, they stumble across what appears to be the remnants of a shipwreck. Over the next few days, a number of other mysterious clues and gory scenes are revealed. What's behind these seemingly random tragedies?
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Flaming Youth
Flaming Youth is a work of fiction that tells of young women's burning desires in the height of the jazz age. Though seen as scandalous for its time, this book is now widely acclaimed with being at the forefront of the sexual revolution in America.
Average Jones
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Three men sat in the Cosmic Club discussing the question: "What's the matter with Jones?" Waldemar, the oldest of the conferees, was the owner, and at times the operator, of an important and decent newspaper. His heavy face wore the expression of good-humored power, characteristic of the experienced and successful journalist. Beside him sat Robert Bertram, the club idler, slender and languidly elegant. The third member of the conference was Jones himself. Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoome...
Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing
Traces the prolific and eclectic writing career of Adams who wrote more than fifty books and wrote the scripts for the films It Happened One Night and Flaming Youth. Kennedy offers insights into Adams's relationships with fellow writers, agents, editors, book publishers and reviewers, which he maintained throughout his career.
Canal Town
A classic historical novel of a young doctor and the Erie Canal, which brought with it to Western New York not only progress and prosperity but unforeseen upheavals. “[An] elaborate, colorful, and affectionate portrait of a canal town in its growing pains. Obviously [Samuel Hopkins] Adams has not only gone back to the sources but has lived with them for a long time before writing his account of a young doctor setting up his practice.”—The Atlantic “Mr. Adams knows his Erie lore so well and has boned up so thoroughly on American medical history in the early part of the [eighteenth] century that nobody who reads the book can fail to learn a great deal about what life was like in general and the practice of medicine in particular was like in a boom town.”—The New Yorker “His villains are strongly delineated and actuated by very human motives, his minor figures are picturesque and drawn with gusto, even his sympathetic characters come alive with personal crochets and idiosyncrasies.”—Carl Carmer, Saturday Review of Literature
The Clarion
New York-born writer Samuel Hopkins Adams got his literary start in the rough-and-tumble world of investigative journalism. Some of his most famous exposes uncovered the seamy underbelly of patent medicines and faith healing. Adams skillfully weaves his own experiences into the tightly plotted novel The Clarion, producing a compelling look at life in early-twentieth-century America.
Wanted: A Husband
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Our Square and the People in It
Our Square and the People in It is a collection of short stories by Samuel Hopkins Adams. Adams was best known for his investigative and reformative journalism. Contents: The Chair That Whispered Maclachan Of Our Square The Great 'Peacemaker Orpheus A Tale Of White Magic In Our Square The Meanest Man In Our Square Paula Of The Housetop The Little Red 'Doctor Of Our Square
