Paul Eldridge
Personal Information
Description
Paul Eldridge was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He married writer Sylvette de Lamar. He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, and became an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia from 1910-1912. He earned his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911, and a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1913. He was a lecturer on American Literature at the Sorbonne in 1913. He taught romance languages at high schools in New York until his retirement in 1945. He is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet George Sylvester Viereck on a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels from 1928 to 1932, My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew, Salome: the Wandering Jewess, and Invincible Adam. A highly prolific author, many of his later books were published by E. Haldeman-Julius in his "Little Blue Books" series. He died at the age of 94 in a New York City nursing home on July 28, 1982.
Books
Seven against the night
Included: Desiderius Erasmus, Niccolo Machiavelli, Michel deMontaigne, Denis Diderot, Pierre Augustin Caron deBeaumarchais, Arthur Schopenhauer, Anatole France.
My First Two Thousand Years
My First Two Thousand Years tells the story of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew, a Jewish man and a former friend of Jesus, who joins the Roman army. He is present in Jerusalem as Jesus is carrying the cross up to Golgotha and he taunts Jesus for going meekly to his death. Jesus tells him "I shall go, but thou shalt tarry till I return!" Thus begins Cartaphilus' journey through the world as an immortal. In Viereck's story, Cartaphilus, also known as Isaac Laqudem, meets and interacts with famous people in history, and is involved in many of the world's great events. It is an epic story of legend, sex and sensuality. My First Two Thousand Years is the first book of a trilogy, which also includes My First Two Thousand Years of Love, the story of Salome, and The Invincible Adam, the story of Cartaphilus' faithful friend and servant, Kotikokura, on their long journey.