Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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The boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in nineteenth-century New England are based on the author's own experiences.

Full title: The whole life and strange suprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years all alone in an uninhabited Island, on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself: with An Account how he was at last as strangely deliverd by pirates. Written by himself. Volume I. First of 2 volumes in 8vo. pp. 485. Calf. Contains plate.Originally published in 1719, this is the first edition printed for John Walter’s new ‘Logographic Press,’ prior to the commencement there of his newspaper ‘The Times.’ A reprint, in three volumes, appeared five years later. Of Defoe’s many fictional works, four or five may be fairly characterized as ‘borderline forgeries,’ i.e. novels or personal memoranda presented as narratives of true events or autobiographical writings, buttressed by claims of authoritative provenance. Robinson Crusoe was the foremost of these, if believed genuine largely among young or unlearned readers. The present edition is the same as that given to the scholar-forger John Payne Collier as a boy by his father (a journalist on John Walter’s ‘Times’), and of which he later wrote ‘when first I found that the whole story of Robinson Crusoe was an invention and not reality [...] it really was one of the saddest days of my early life’ (see A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, p.13, 179). See also ESTC, T180363.Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.

Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius]( / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.