Wednesday, March 30, 2011

O'Henry - Which is your Favorite Story?

I was trying to pick my favorite O’Henry story and settled on “The Retrieved Reformation,” about Jimmy Valentine, former safecracker.  Of course that meant I might not be suggesting an O’Henry collection that included “The Gift of the Magi” or “The Ransom of Red Chief” – O’Henry’s two best known short stories—unless all three were in the same collection.

But I could not figure out which O’Henry collection contained had my favorite story . . . so a creative solution was needed.


For only 89 cents you can get The Complete Works of O. Henry with a linked index.  (£0.71 UK edition) (EUR 1,61 Deutsch edition) This way you can decide for yourself which is the best O’Henry story!  Downloading “The Gift of the Magi,” (UK Edition)  I found out it was only that story – a sort of ur-Kindle’s single.  If that is the only story you want, you can download it for free.


P.S. O’Henry is the pen name of William Sydney Porter.


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Friday, March 25, 2011

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - by Frank L. Baum

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz   (£0.69 UK edition) (EUR 0,99 Deutsch edition) is one of the more popular free books.  It was written for children, but is a book that has always had appeal for adults as well.  It is the first in a series of books about Oz by Baum.
Some of should sound familiar:


"Are you really going to look upon the face of Oz the Terrible?"


"Of course," answered the girl, "if he will see me."


"Oh, he will see you," said the soldier who had taken her message to the Wizard, "although he does not like to have people ask to see him. Indeed, at first he was angry and said I should send you back where you came from. Then he asked me what you looked like, and when I mentioned your silver shoes he was very much interested. At last I told him about the mark upon your forehead, and he decided he would admit you to his presence."


Just then a bell rang, and the green girl said to Dorothy, "That is the signal. You must go into the Throne Room alone."


She opened a little door and Dorothy walked boldly through and found herself in a wonderful place. It was a big, round room with a high arched roof, and the walls and ceiling and floor were covered with large emeralds set closely together. In the center of the roof was a great light, as bright as the sun, which made the emeralds sparkle in a wonderful manner.


But what interested Dorothy most was the big throne of green marble that stood in the middle of the room. It was shaped like a chair and sparkled with gems, as did everything else. In the center of the chair was an enormous Head, without a body to support it or any arms or legs whatever. There was no hair upon this head, but it had eyes and a nose and mouth, and was much bigger than the head of the biggest giant.
As Dorothy gazed upon this in wonder and fear, the eyes turned slowly and looked at her sharply and steadily. Then the mouth moved, and Dorothy heard a voice say:


"I am Oz, the Great and Terrible. Who are you, and why do you seek me?"


It was not such an awful voice as she had expected to come from the big Head; so she took courage and answered:


"I am Dorothy, the Small and Meek. I have come to you for help."
Silver slippers?  Well maybe it is not all that familiar!

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not all sweetness and light and terrifying flying monkeys.  This is kind of dark and makes me wonder why home in Kansas was so attractive . . .
When Aunt Em came there to live [Kansas of course] she was a young, pretty wife. The sun and wind had changed her, too. They had taken the sparkle from her eyes and left them a sober gray; they had taken the red from her cheeks and lips, and they were gray also. She was thin and gaunt, and never smiled now. When Dorothy, who was an orphan, first came to her, Aunt Em had been so startled by the child's laughter that she would scream and press her hand upon her heart whenever Dorothy's merry voice reached her ears; and she still looked at the little girl with wonder that she could find anything to laugh at.  
So download it for yourself, or to share with someone you love.  Just because it is e-ink, that doesn't mean you can't read it aloud to someone who will get the screen all sticky.

No illustrations in the free U.S. edition and no linked index, but this is not a long book. (I think the UK version is the same.)  I know some people want an index, but I never use it because Kindle keeps the page marked.  Actually I never liked reading the index when I was a child, because the chapter headings sometimes outlined the story and gave away the plot.  I like a good surprise when it comes to the ending of a book!


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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Pepys Diary - by Samuel Pepys edited by Frederick Warne

I do not usually do such a long blog, but Pepys wrote a lengthy diary and it is only fair that I deal with it at length.

One of my favorite authors is Samuel Pepys.  For almost ten years he recorded his daily life in breathtaking honesty.  His diary reveals his jealousies, insecurities, trivial concerns, and his sad mistreatment of his wife. This truthfulness is ultimately seductive.  His philosophies and feelings are laid open in a way that I have seen nowhere else.   

The openness of the diary is to me Pepys's chief appeal. However it is also important as an account of London in the 1660's.  He records the restoration of the monarchy, war with the Dutch, fire, and plague. Pepys was well placed to view what was happening.  He was always curious and often acted on that curiosity, as he acted upon almost all his impulses.

He spent a great deal of time evaluating his fortune and his place in the world. He would not be out of place in today's environment for self-improvement.  Periodically he would resolve to cut down on drinking and womanizing and to devote more time to those endeavors where he thought his time should be spent. For example, this entry on Dec. 31, 1661, "I have newly taken a solemn oath about abstaining from plays and wine..." The following months reveal his lapses to the reader as by Feb. 17 "And here I drank wine upon necessity, being ill for the want of it."

Pepys's job required that he meet with many people to dispense monies and make contracts. He often laments over how he "lost his labour" having gone to some appointment at a coffee house or tavern there to discover that the person he was seeking was not within.  This was a constant frustration to Pepys. But in our day of instant communication, there is something appealing in setting out to a tavern in the hope that the person you are seeking will be there.

As you read the diary, the pattern of his life and certain recurring phrases imprint themselves on you. There is a pleasurable sense of the familiar as you begin to anticipate what he will say. Perhaps when you tuck yourself in, you will think "and so to bed," that phrase which so often ends the day's entry.

In this time when every difference is examined to show how men are unlike women, and New Yorkers are unlike Californians, and Americans are unlike the British, it gives this 21st century woman great pause to read Samuel Pepys's diary.  You cannot set it aside without thinking how very much alike we all must be.

The diary was written from 1660-1669.  It has been published in various formats and editions, but never complete and unexpurgated until beginning in 1970 when the first of eleven volumes was published.  I read the diary in this edition and highly recommend it, but it is a great investment in time and it is not available for Kindle and is now quite pricey if you can find it.

There is a complete abridged edition  The Diary of Samuel Pepys  (UK Edition) (Deutsch edition)  All of the Kindle editions are abridged and that is better than no Pepys.  I like this edition because the footnotes are shorter and less disruptive.  They are set off by brackets but they are not set off by lines before and after them and they are just more readable that way.

(If you don’t wish to meander through Samuel Pepys life at the Admiralty, go directly to 2 September 1666 for an account of the Great Fire of London.  The diary is also celebrated for its account of the 1665 plague, the Great Plague of London, which is the latter half of 1665. )


Here is a bit of Pepys




"27th. Up by four o'clock: Mr. Blayton and I took horse and straight to Saffron Walden, where at the White Hart, we set up our horses, and took the master of the house to shew us Audly End House, who took us on foot through the park, and so to the house, where the housekeeper shewed us all the house, in which the stateliness of the ceilings, chimney-pieces, and form of the whole was exceedingly worth seeing. He took us into the cellar, where we drank most admirable drink, a health to the King. Here I played on my flageolette, there being an excellent echo. He shewed us excellent pictures; two especially, those of the four Evangelists and Henry VIII. In our going, my landlord carried us through a very old hospital or almshouse, where forty poor people was maintained; a very old foundation; and over the chimney-piece was an inscription in brass: "Orate pro anima, Thomae Bird," &c. [The inscription and the bowl are still to be seen in the almshouse.] They brought me a draft of their drink in a brown bowl, tipt with silver, which I drank off, and at the bottom was a picture of the Virgin with the child in her arms, done in silver. So we took leave, the road pretty good, but the weather rainy to Eping."


The copy from which this etext was taken was published in 1879 by Frederick Warne and Co. (London and New York), in a series called "Chandos Classics.


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Thursday, March 17, 2011

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

I was trying to think of a book to get lost in and Dickens always comes to mind.  The colorful characters, descriptions and locale can be nowhere but Victorian London, unless you are reading A Tale of Two Cities. (UK edition

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,



we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way— in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Dickens wrote many great novels.   Some of them are rather long, but not this story of “The Terror” -when being outed as an aristocrat was a death sentence.  I also find it reads very fast, starting from the famous first paragraph.

The book goes on to top the beginning, so enjoy!  


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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

The Iliad by Homer and edited by . .. the envelope please!

The Odyssey is by far the more popular of Homer's epic poems, but I much prefer The Illiad (UK free version.The Illiad is the account of the Trojan War and it is fascinating.  I have listened to it a number of times.  I have actually never read it, but wore out a set of audio tapes.  Poetry is better heard, but listening to something as long as the Illiad is not always practical.

This is the prose translation by "Edward, Earl of Derby.
"Ye sons of Ajax, now is come the time
Your former fame to rival, or surpass:
The man hath fall'n, who first o'erleap'd our wall,
Sarpedon; now remains, that, having slain,
We should his corpse dishonour, and his arms
Strip off; and should some comrade dare attempt
His rescue, him too with our spears subdue."
Unfortunately, the free version is not formatted as shown above.  It is concatenated like a run-on paragraph, which makes it more difficult to read.  It also does not have a linked index - contrary to what it says in the description.  I cannot download and see the UK version, but am confident it is the same. (Both versions have the same incorrect cover from a different translation.)

Based on the reader reviews, I am going to suggest the $1.00 version of The Iliad and The Odyssey (UK version) translated by Samuel Butler (to distinguish it from the .99 version which gets poor reviews.)


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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Letters of a Woman Homesteader - by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

I don’t know this book.  I was looking through a list of free bestsellers and was surprised to find , Letters of a Woman Homesteader  (UK edition) (Deutsch edition) by Elinore Pruitt Stewart.

Luckily the book gives you valuable clues!
“The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as house-cleaner and laundress. Later, seeking to better herself, she accepted employment as a housekeeper for a well-to-do Scotch cattle-man, Mr. Stewart, who had taken up a quarter-section in Wyoming. The letters, written through several years to a former employer in Denver, tell the story of her new life in the new country. They are genuine letters, and are printed as written, except for occasional omissions and the alteration of some of the names.”
The letters start in 1909.
 'A neighbor and his daughter were going to Green River, the county-seat, and said I might go along, so I did, as I could file there as well as at the land office; and oh, that trip! I had more fun to the square inch than Mark Twain or Samantha Allen eversuch a pot! I promised Bo-Peep that I would send him a crook with pink ribbons on it, but I suspect he thinks I am a crook without the ribbons. provoked. It took us a whole week to go and come. We camped out, of course, for in the whole sixty miles there was but one house, and going in that direction there is not a tree to be seen, nothing but sage, sand, and sheep. About noon the first day out we came near a sheep-wagon, and stalking along ahead of us was a lanky fellow, a herder, going home for dinner. Suddenly it seemed to me I should starve if I had to wait until we got where we had planned to stop for dinner, so I called out to the man, "Little Bo-Peep, have you anything to eat? If you have, we'd like to find it." And he answered, "As soon as I am able it shall be on the table, if you'll but trouble to get behind it." Shades of Shakespeare! Songs of David, the Shepherd Poet! What do you think of us? Well, we got behind it, and a more delicious "it" I never tasted. Such coffee! And out of
   The sagebrush is so short in some places that it is not large enough to make a fire, so we had to drive until quite late before we camped that night. After driving all day over what seemed a level desert of sand, we came about sundown to a beautiful canon, down which we had to drive for a couple of miles before we could cross. In the canon the shadows had already fallen, but when we looked up we could see the last shafts of sun-light on the tops of the great bare buttes. Suddenly a great wolf started from somewhere and galloped along the edge of the canon, outlined black and clear by the setting sun. His curiosity overcame him at last, so he sat down and waited to see what manner of beast we were. I reckon he was disappointed for he howled most dismally. I thought of Jack London's "The Wolf."'
 The scenery of the American West always inspires its chroniclers . . .
"After we quitted the canon I saw the most beautiful sight. It seemed as if we were driving through a golden haze. The violet shadows were creeping up between the hills, while away back of us the snow-capped peaks were catching the sun's last rays. On every side of us stretched the poor, hopeless desert, the sage, grim and determined to live in spite of starvation, and the great, bare, desolate buttes. The beautiful colors turned to amber and rose, and then to the general tone, dull gray."
These letters seem more like a journal and I expect this is a very enjoyable book!


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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

The Forsyte Saga - by John Galsworthy.

Some of my reading was inspired by browsing the stacks, some by a classic comic (!) and some by "Masterpiece Theatre".  That was the case with the Forsyte Saga (£0.49 UK Kindle) (Deutsch edition) by John Galsworthy which was adapted for television in the 70’s.  The book is actually 5 short novels with the first one well known by its title, A Man of Property.
“The Forsytes” is a culture clash of art versus industry, Bohemian versus Edwardian and maybe a little bit of “Romeo and Juliet.”

The book actually seemed quite timely in the 70’s with a plot guaranteed to bring up discussions of women’s rights.
“Like an artist for ever seeking to discover the significant trifle which embodies the whole character of a scene, or place, or person, so those unconscious artists — the Forsytes had fastened by intuition on this hat; it was their significant trifle, the detail in which was embedded the meaning of the whole matter; for each had asked himself: “Come, now, should I have paid that visit in that hat?” and each had answered “No!” and some, with more imagination than others, had added: “It would never have come into my head!”


George, on hearing the story, grinned. The hat had obviously been worn as a practical joke! He himself was a connoisseur of such. “Very haughty!” he said, “the wild Buccaneer.”


And this mot, the ‘Buccaneer,’ was bandied from mouth to mouth, till it became the favourite mode of alluding to Bosinney.


Her aunts reproached June afterwards about the hat.


“We don’t think you ought to let him, dear!” they had said.”
That is a nice snippet to give you the flavor!  I like to include a passage in each of my blogs so that you get a sense of the writing.  When deciding whether to read a book, I crack it open and read a few paragraphs from the middle.  It has to be well-written as well as a subject that sounds interesting.  Galsworthy does it on both counts here.

Just a reminder to UK readers, I am not always able to see the price on UK books.  So sometimes I am guessing as to which is a free or inexpensive version.  As a rule, books for the UK Kindle seem to be higher priced and I do not think you enjoy as many free books.


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Thursday, March 3, 2011

The Count of Monte Cristo - by Alexandre Dumas

This might not be the time to suggest a long book, when Amazon is so vigorously pushing the quick-read “Kindle Singles” – but the lengthy “Count of Monte Cristo(.99 US Edition) (£0.77 UK edition) is one of those books that you can get lost in and never realize the length.

I don’t want to give away the plot, but the Count is a much wronged man and we get to follow him on his mission of revenge.
"Well, my dear sir," said Danglars to Fernand, "here is a marriage which does not appear to make everybody happy."
      "It drives me to despair," said Fernand.
      "Do you, then, love Mercedes?"
      "I adore her!"

      "For long?"
      "As long as I have known her — always."
      "And you sit there, tearing your hair, instead of seeking to remedy your condition; I did not think that was the way of your people."
      "What would you have me do?" said Fernand.
      "How do I know? Is it my affair? I am not in love with Mademoiselle Mercedes; but for you — in the words of the gospel, seek, and you shall find."
I love this book and remember how long it was and how drawn I was into the narrative.  I may have looked like I was in high school, but I was really a prisoner on an island . . .


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Tuesday, March 1, 2011

First Men in the Moon - by H.G. Wells (Dystopian Moon!)

I wanted to write about some dystopian literature (opposite of utopian) because I am reading the fabulous trilogy, The Hunger Games. (UK edition)  But those are new books and I don’t blog about new books, so I checked on a couple of old favorites, Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.   Alas, not old enough!  They are not out of copyright, so they are not free and not inexpensive.  (One wonders why Amazon can’t take a dollar off for each decade, so that books from the 30’s would sell for a few dollars instead of the same price as a brand new book.)

So I reached further back into the past to the peculiarly titled First Men in the Moon (UK edition).  I have to say the book is a little peculiar too, but readable.  I read it as a child and not since.  At the time there were several books by Wells considered suitable for children and sold very cheaply in student editions.  That is probably why I read it, although I might have just kept going with Wells after reading The Time Machine.  In the course of doing this blog I sometimes wonder why I was picking up and reading the books I did when I was in grade school.  I think it is because the genre of children’s literature was not as well developed and “classics” were considered acceptable reading for younger readers. 

So it is probably not on anyone’s bucket list, but give it a whirl!
‘And then we had to discuss and decide what provisions we were to take - compressed foods, concentrated essences, steel cylinders containing reserve oxygen, an arrangement for removing carbonic acid and waste from the air and restoring oxygen by means of sodium peroxide, water condensers, and so forth. I remember the little heap they made in the corner - tins, and rolls, and boxes - convincingly matter-of-fact.




It was a strenuous time, with little chance of thinking. But one day, when we were drawing near the end, an odd mood came over me. I had been bricking up the furnace all the morning, and I sat down by these possessions dead beat. Everything seemed dull and incredible.




"But look here, Cavor," I said. "After all! What's it all for?"




He smiled. "The thing now is to go."




"The moon," I reflected. But what do you expect? I thought the moon was a dead world."




He shrugged his shoulders.




"We're going to see."


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