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1varielle
US Fiction
1. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill 20 copies on LT
2. V. V.'s Eyes, Henry Sydnor Harrison 2 copies
3. Laddie: A True Blue Story, Gene Stratton Porter 113 copies (Edited because I am mathematically impaired)
4. The Judgment House, Sir Gilbert Parker 0 copies
5. The Heart of the Hills, John Fox Jr. 4 copies
6. The Amateur Gentleman, Jeffrey Farnol 12 copies
7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill, Hall Caine 3 copies
8. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter 551 copies
9. The Valiants of Virginia, Hallie Erminie Rives 2 copies
10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett 20 copies
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Crowds, Gerald Stanley Lee 1 copy
2. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View, Price Collier 4 copies
3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck 1 copy
4. The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the generous energies of a peopl, Woodrow Wilson 6 copies
5. South America: Observations and Impressions, James Bryce 6 copies
6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett 4 copies
7. The Promised Land, Mary Antin 41 copies
8. Auction Bridge To-Day, Milton C. Work 0 copies
9. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux 0 copies
10. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Hugo Munsterberg 1 copy
1. The Inside of the Cup, Winston Churchill 20 copies on LT
2. V. V.'s Eyes, Henry Sydnor Harrison 2 copies
3. Laddie: A True Blue Story, Gene Stratton Porter 113 copies (Edited because I am mathematically impaired)
4. The Judgment House, Sir Gilbert Parker 0 copies
5. The Heart of the Hills, John Fox Jr. 4 copies
6. The Amateur Gentleman, Jeffrey Farnol 12 copies
7. The Woman Thou Gavest Me: Being the Story of Mary O'Neill, Hall Caine 3 copies
8. Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter 551 copies
9. The Valiants of Virginia, Hallie Erminie Rives 2 copies
10. T. Tembarom, Frances Hodgson Burnett 20 copies
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Crowds, Gerald Stanley Lee 1 copy
2. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View, Price Collier 4 copies
3. Zone Policeman 88, Harry A. Franck 1 copy
4. The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the generous energies of a peopl, Woodrow Wilson 6 copies
5. South America: Observations and Impressions, James Bryce 6 copies
6. Your United States, Arnold Bennett 4 copies
7. The Promised Land, Mary Antin 41 copies
8. Auction Bridge To-Day, Milton C. Work 0 copies
9. Three Plays, Eugène Brieux 0 copies
10. Psychology and Industrial Efficiency, Hugo Munsterberg 1 copy
2aviddiva
I've read Laddie and Pollyanna, both of which share a certain sort of post-Victorian positivism. I haven't read it, but I suspect T. Tembarom may, too, based on other Burnett novels I've read. Pollyanna takes it over the top more than Laddie (well, more than anyone I can think of, really) but they are "kindred spirits" nevertheless.
3vpfluke
There are actually 113 copies on Laddie; a true blue story in LT. We have one of them. We had a copy of "Pollyanna" around the house also.
The non-fiction really points to a distant past for those of us living today.
The non-fiction really points to a distant past for those of us living today.
5Pawcatuck
Harry A. Franck wrote a number of travel books, one of which -- Working North from Patagonia -- I read many years ago and remember enjoying. I've never heard of Zone Policeman 88, which sounds more like an Eighties technothriller than a 1913 bestseller.
6vpfluke
"Zone policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers" deals with police work in the Panama Canal Zone according to Worldcat. I'm not sure why this topic would ever make any bestseller list outside of Panama.
7Shortride
At the time, the canal was just about to be finished. It had been one of the major initiatives of Theodore Roosevelt. I'm not surprised about it at all, as it was probably in t news a lot.
8shmjay
I guess even in 1913 they had their equivalents of The audacity of hope.
9SNS101
I've read the Amateur Gentleman, and enjoyed it very much! For fans of Georgette Heyer but written in the male perspective.
10vpfluke
"The Inside of the Cup" has grown now to 35 copies on LT and here is the link: http://www.librarything.com/work/46519 . Winston Churchill is separated into three separate authors, and htis book's author is # 2 (not the famous British prime minister). This book is rated as a "3.5", but this is not reliable at all because only two people have given it a rating, one was a "2" and the other a "5". The one review posted is short, but there are two longer reviews on Amazon (this book has been reprinted and the link works fine).
11vpfluke
No one in LT has yet put "The Judgment House" into LT. But a reprint has been done in 2007. One can procure it from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Judgment-House-Works-Gilbert-Parker/dp/0548015805/ref=sr_1... . No one there has reviewed it, but there is a short desciption of this Canadian author's novel, which was part of a series (this one is #18).
12digifish_books
Pollyanna was a childhood favourite for me so I've downloaded Laddie and A Girl of the Limberlost to my Kindle :) Were Eleanor H. Porter and Gene Stratton-Porter related?
13vpfluke
A copy of "The Judgment House" by Gilbert Parker (link, http://www.librarything.com/author/parkergilbert ) has now appeared in LT. (Touchstones don't work for either author or title.
14edwinbcn
Pollyanna
Finished reading: 30 January 2013
Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter is now mainly read as a children's book, but is wasn't written or intended as such. It was an immediate bestseller and influenced many people and popular culture during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
The story is about a young girl, who, as an orphan, is sent to live with her aunt, the stern Miss Polly. Pollyanna's father has taught her a game, which consists of always seeing things and situations in a positive light, and always being delighted with anything, in short, always be glad. The young, bright, innocent Polyanna spreads this belief, and starts influencing the people around her.
Within a few months she has made friends with most people in the community, even people, such as Mr Pendleton, who was considered to be unapproachable. Her unlimited optimism cheers up all the people around her, and brings people together, who were separated through years of miserly sorrow and anguish.
Underlying Polyanna's "glad game" lies the idea that everyone should be happy with small things. There are subtle suggestions that money is not the most important thing in life, and that apart from money there are many other things that may make people happy. The novel also suggests that Americans should care for each other before caring for others, far away, as there were still many poor and needy people within the US, at that time.
To the modern reader the book may appear repetitive and very simple, probably why it is now seen as a children's book. Because of its young protagonist, and its message, the novel also seems aimed at children. However, it is likely that children will merely focus on the superficial and rather simplistic message about being happy with anything, while missing the more subtle criticism on a society which is increasingly ruled by money, turning people in miserly Scrooges, having a lot of money, but unable to find happiness in life.
Finished reading: 30 January 2013
Pollyanna (1913) by Eleanor H. Porter is now mainly read as a children's book, but is wasn't written or intended as such. It was an immediate bestseller and influenced many people and popular culture during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
The story is about a young girl, who, as an orphan, is sent to live with her aunt, the stern Miss Polly. Pollyanna's father has taught her a game, which consists of always seeing things and situations in a positive light, and always being delighted with anything, in short, always be glad. The young, bright, innocent Polyanna spreads this belief, and starts influencing the people around her.
Within a few months she has made friends with most people in the community, even people, such as Mr Pendleton, who was considered to be unapproachable. Her unlimited optimism cheers up all the people around her, and brings people together, who were separated through years of miserly sorrow and anguish.
Underlying Polyanna's "glad game" lies the idea that everyone should be happy with small things. There are subtle suggestions that money is not the most important thing in life, and that apart from money there are many other things that may make people happy. The novel also suggests that Americans should care for each other before caring for others, far away, as there were still many poor and needy people within the US, at that time.
To the modern reader the book may appear repetitive and very simple, probably why it is now seen as a children's book. Because of its young protagonist, and its message, the novel also seems aimed at children. However, it is likely that children will merely focus on the superficial and rather simplistic message about being happy with anything, while missing the more subtle criticism on a society which is increasingly ruled by money, turning people in miserly Scrooges, having a lot of money, but unable to find happiness in life.
15arcona
I've added Pollyanna to my TBR list. After seeing this list, it reminded me that it was a book I wanted to read many years ago.
16vpfluke
In five years since the this thread started, there are now over 1,700 copies of Pollyanna in LT.
17jillmwo
I actually read T. Tembaron earlier this year. From my reading thread in the Green Dragon:
Frances Hodgson herself did not live a charmed existence (two divorces and the loss of a son to tuberculosis) but worked from the age of fifteen to support those nearest to her heart. That commitment to hard work and responsibility is reflected in her novel, T. Tembaron.
That novel tells the story of a young man of 25 trying to make it in New York City as a news reporter. T.T., as he is known, is something of a Horatio Alger character - working hard to earn his way, best exemplified by his walking uptown in a blizzard in hopes of covering a story that *may* earn him a regular spot on the newspaper. One night, a very proper British solicitor appears at his boarding house to inform him that he is the rightful heir to both a massive fortune as well as one of the Great Houses of England. Tembaron is not overly eager to assume this new role. The money stands between him and the red-haired girl he loves and he knows nothing of life abroad nor of the social obligations that accompany this particular inheritance. He does however care for those less fortunate than himself and throughout the course of the novel we see him assuming responsibility for others -- usually those who are suffering in extremity without regard to their social status. It’s a lengthy but well-paced story. (Okay, it is a tad sentimental and therefore predictable, but the plot twists and the characterization still keeps one turning pages.). We meet Mr. Strangeways, Miss Alicia, Ann and her inventor-father, Mr. Hutchinson and ultimately the Duke of Stone. We also meet the Countess of Mallowe but the less said of her, perhaps the better.
I am not warmed by this book in quite the way that I was warmed in reading The Shuttle and Emily Fox-Seton but that may be because the story is largely told from the male viewpoint. I did sense Burnett’s energy in creating characters that appealed to the various facets of her audience’s sympathies..There is the Edwardian version of the superfluous woman -- Miss Alicia, abused by her father and neglected by everyone else in this class conscious society. There is Lady Joan, the heart-broken beauty who will not succumb to a loveless marriage in order to raise herself above her current circumstances. There is the strength of working-class Ann Hutchinson, whose common sense skills and intelligence serves everyone around her. These are nineteenth-century female stereotypes but there is a certain vibrancy to their literary presence which suggests a truth behind the stereotype. The novel-reading public was largely female and Burnett wrote to please that audience; this was after all her means of economic support.
Frances Hodgson herself did not live a charmed existence (two divorces and the loss of a son to tuberculosis) but worked from the age of fifteen to support those nearest to her heart. That commitment to hard work and responsibility is reflected in her novel, T. Tembaron.
That novel tells the story of a young man of 25 trying to make it in New York City as a news reporter. T.T., as he is known, is something of a Horatio Alger character - working hard to earn his way, best exemplified by his walking uptown in a blizzard in hopes of covering a story that *may* earn him a regular spot on the newspaper. One night, a very proper British solicitor appears at his boarding house to inform him that he is the rightful heir to both a massive fortune as well as one of the Great Houses of England. Tembaron is not overly eager to assume this new role. The money stands between him and the red-haired girl he loves and he knows nothing of life abroad nor of the social obligations that accompany this particular inheritance. He does however care for those less fortunate than himself and throughout the course of the novel we see him assuming responsibility for others -- usually those who are suffering in extremity without regard to their social status. It’s a lengthy but well-paced story. (Okay, it is a tad sentimental and therefore predictable, but the plot twists and the characterization still keeps one turning pages.). We meet Mr. Strangeways, Miss Alicia, Ann and her inventor-father, Mr. Hutchinson and ultimately the Duke of Stone. We also meet the Countess of Mallowe but the less said of her, perhaps the better.
I am not warmed by this book in quite the way that I was warmed in reading The Shuttle and Emily Fox-Seton but that may be because the story is largely told from the male viewpoint. I did sense Burnett’s energy in creating characters that appealed to the various facets of her audience’s sympathies..There is the Edwardian version of the superfluous woman -- Miss Alicia, abused by her father and neglected by everyone else in this class conscious society. There is Lady Joan, the heart-broken beauty who will not succumb to a loveless marriage in order to raise herself above her current circumstances. There is the strength of working-class Ann Hutchinson, whose common sense skills and intelligence serves everyone around her. These are nineteenth-century female stereotypes but there is a certain vibrancy to their literary presence which suggests a truth behind the stereotype. The novel-reading public was largely female and Burnett wrote to please that audience; this was after all her means of economic support.
