Saltus Edgar
Edgar Evertson Saltus (October 8, 1855 – July 31, 1921) was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Huysmans and Oscar Wilde. Saltus wrote two books of philosophy, The Philosophy of Disenchantment and The Anatomy of Negation. Acclaimed by fellow writers in his day, Saltus fell into obscurity after his death. His novel The Paliser Case was adapted to film in 1920, and his novel Daughters of the Rich was filmed in 1923. A biography by Marie Saltus, Edgar Saltus: The Man was published in 1925. Edgar Saltus, a critical study by Claire Sprague, appeared in 1970. His elder brother Francis Saltus Saltus was a minor poet. Both brothers are buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.
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The Lords of the GhostlandA History of the Ideal
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the monster
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org
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the lords of the ghostland a history of the ideal
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Edgar Evertson Saltus, an American writer of the 19th-20th centuries touches upon the question of the Christian doctrine, coming to a conclusion that the original Christian conceptions were somehow borrowed from other religions. In “The Lords of the Ghostland”, tracing the genealogy of the divine, he examines such “lords of the ghostland” as Brahma, Ormuzd, Amon-Ra and others.
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the imperial orgy an account of the tsars from the first to the last
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The Imperial Orgy an Account of the Tsars from the First to the Last was originally published in 1920 and it contains information about most terrible and mad rulers of all times. The book would be interesting for everyone who is fond of history.
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the ghost girl
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III It must have been after two when, again in Harlem, I went up the interminable stairs. On the way I was thinking of that girl and her undreamed-of beauty. As I began at the fifth, I saw what I took to be an old woman huddled on the landing opposite my door. But, as I advanced, she stood up. I saw then she was not old but young and, immediately, as I approached her, I could not help it, I started and nearly slipped. Then I raised my hat. It was Nelly Chilton! Why was she there? How had she come? What did she want? And where had she got a hat and where had she changed her furs? Where, for that matter, had she changed her expression? At supper it had been alluring. Now it was reserved. My bewilderment must have been very manifest. In any event, at once she spoke. With an intonation, slightly foreign, she said something. I heard, but I did not hear understandingly. That also she must have seen. She spoke again. "Could you, without inconvenience, loan me a chair?" I did get that and inanely I parroted it. "A chair?" She indicated an adjoining door. "I have lost my key. Until morning I am a vagrant." And an exotic, I thought, for already I had recognised my mistake. "You are quite right." That is what she said and I started again. "About what?" But, rallying, I resumed; "I have five chairs, I have even six, but the sixth is broken. You shall have whatever displeases you least." I opened my door, switched the light in the hall and turned to her. She entered and followed me into the workshop where I again switched a light. As I looked at her then, she sniffed, much as a terrier will, and catalogued me. "You are a literary man." "No, I write for the magazines. There is nothing less literary than that. Will you try this chair?" As I s...
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the anatomy of negation
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Originally published in 1889. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.
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mr incouls misadventure
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org
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mary magdalen a chronicle
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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historia amoris a history of love ancient and modern
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1922. Contents Part One: Super Flumina Babylonis; The Curtains of Solomon; Aphrodite Urania; Sappho; The Age of Aspasia; The Banquet; Roma-Amor; Antony and Cleopatra; The Imperial Orgy; and Finis Amoris. Part Two: The Cloister and the Heart; The Pursuivants of Love; The Parliaments of Joy; The Doctors of the Gay Science; The Apotheosis; Bluebeard; The Renaissance; Love in the Seventeenth Century; Love in the Eighteenth Century; and The Law of Attraction. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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enthralled a story of international life setting forth the curious circumstance
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