Victor Metta Victoria Fuller
Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (nom de plume Seeley Regester) (March 2, 1831–June 26, 1885) is credited with authoring of one of the first detective novels in the United States. She wrote over 100 dime novels, pioneering the field.[1] Her husband was publishing pioneer Orville James Victor; her sister was novelist, feminist, and historian of the Pacific Northwest Frances Fuller Victor. She died of cancer on June 26, 1885, in Hohokus, New Jersey, and was buried there in Valleau Cemetery.[1]
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The Bad Boy At HomeAnd His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885
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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.
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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 the Paperback edition.
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The Blunders of a Bashful Man
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CONTENTS:I. HE ATTENDS A PICNIC. 11 II. HE MAKES AN EVENING CALL. 23 III. GOES TO A TEA-PARTY. 31 IV. HE DOES HIS DUTY AS A CITIZEN. 39 V. HE COMMITS SUICIDE. 47 VI. HE IS DOOMED FOR WORSE ACCIDENTS. 56 VII. I MAKE A NARROW ESCAPE. 65 VIII. HE ENACTS THE PART OF GROOMSMAN. 72 IX. MEETS A PAIR OF BLUE EYES. 82 X. HE CATCHES A TROUT AND PRESENTS IT TO A LADY. 92 XI. HE GOES TO THE CIRCUS. 99 XII. A LEAP FOR LIFE. 107 XIII. ONE OF THE FAIR SEX COMES TO HIS RESCUE. 116 XIV. HIS DIFFIDENCE BRINGS ABOUT AN ACCIDENT. 123 XV. HE BECOMES ACQUAINTED WITH A CHICAGO WIDOW. 131 XVI. AT LAST HE SECURES A TREASURE. 139 XVII. HE ENJOYS HIMSELF AT A BALL. 147 XVIII. HE OPENS THE WRONG DOOR. 154 XIX. DRIVEN FROM HIS LAST DEFENCE. 161 an excerpt from CHAPTER I - HE ATTENDS A PICNIC. I have been, am now, and shall always be, a bashful man. I have been told that I am the only bashful man in the world. How that is I can not say, but should not be sorry to believe that it is so, for I am of too generous a nature to desire any other mortal to suffer the mishaps which have come to me from this distressing complaint. A person can have smallpox, scarlet fever, and measles but once each. He can even become so inoculated with the poison of bees and mosquitoes as to make their stings harmless; and he can gradually accustom, himself to the use of arsenic until he can take 444 grains safely; but for bashfulness-like mine-there is no first and only attack, no becoming hardened to the thousand petty stings, no saturation of one's being with the poison until it loses its power. I am a quiet, nice-enough, inoffensive young gentleman, now rapidly approaching my twenty-sixth year. It is unnecessary to state that I am unmarried. I should have been wedded a great many times, had not some fresh attack of my malady invariably, and in some new shape, attacked me in season to prevent the "consummation devoutly to be wished." When I look back over twenty years of suffering through which I have literally stumbled my way-over the long series of embarrassments and mortifications which lie behind me-I wonder, with a mild and patient wonder, why the Old Nick I did not commit suicide ages ago, and thus end the eventful history with a blank page in the middle of the book. I dare say the very bashfulness which has been my bane has prevented me; the idea of being cut down from a rafter, with a black-and-blue face, and drawn out of the water with a swollen one, has put me so out of countenance that I had not the courage to brave a coroner's jury under the circumstances. Life to me has been a scramble through briers. I do not recall one single day wholly free from the scratches inflicted on a cruel sensitiveness. I will not mention those far-away agonies of boyhood, when the teacher punished me by making me sit with the girls, but will hasten on to a point that stands out vividly against a dark background of accidents. I was nineteen. My sentiments toward that part of creation known as "young ladies" were, at that time, of a mingled and contradictory nature. I adored them as angels; I dreaded them as if they were mad dogs, and were going to bite me. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.
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