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The Night Before Christmas and Other Poems: Gilded Pocket Edition

The Night Before Christmas and Other Poems: Gilded Pocket Edition

Clement Clarke Moore; Thomas Hardy; Emily Brontë

Sirius Entertainment
2024
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Enjoy the classic 'The Night Before Christmas' and selection of other wonderfully festive poems in this elegant hardback collection, complete with gilded page edges and full-color illustrations. This fantastically festive collection showcases Clement Clarke Moore's timeless Christmas poem along with Arthur Rackham's illustrations from the classic 1931 edition. Inside, you will also find various other heartwarming works such as Ralph Waldo Emerson's 'The Snow-Storm', and John Clare's 'December'. Accompanied by charmingly vintage illustrations throughout, this pocket-sized gift edition is, presented with a foil embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes a wonderful gift for any lover of these classic Christmas poems. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age

Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age

Nathan Wolff

Oxford University Press
2018
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Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age argues that late nineteenth-century US fiction grapples with and helps to conceptualize the disagreeable feelings that are both a threat to citizens' agency and an inescapable part of the emotional life of democracy--then as now. In detailing the corruption and venality for which the period remains known, authors including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Adams, and Helen Hunt Jackson evoked the depressing inefficacy of reform, the lunatic passions of the mob, and the revolting appetites of lobbyists and office seekers. Readers and critics of these Washington novels, historical romances, and satiric romans à clef have denounced these books' fiercely negative tone, seeing it as a sign of cynicism and elitism. Not Quite Hope argues, in contrast, that their distrust of politics is coupled with an intense investment in it: not quite apathy, but not quite hope. Chapters examine both common and idiosyncratic forms of political emotion, including 'crazy love', disgust, cynicism, 'election fatigue', and the myriad feelings of hatred and suspicion provoked by the figure of the hypocrite. In so doing, the book corrects critics' too-narrow focus on 'sympathy' as the American novel's model political emotion. We think of reform novels as fostering feeling for fellow citizens or for specific causes. This volume argues that Gilded Age fiction refocuses attention on the unstable emotions that continue to shape our relation to politics as such.
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The Rights of the Defenseless – Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

The Rights of the Defenseless – Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America

Susan J. Pearson

University of Chicago Press
2020
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In 1877, the American Humane Society was formed as the national organization for animal and child protection. Thirty years later, there were 354 anticruelty organizations chartered in the United States, nearly 200 of which were similarly invested in the welfare of both humans and animals. In The Rights of the Defenseless, Susan J. Pearson seeks to understand the institutional, cultural, legal, and political significance of the perceived bond between these two kinds of helpless creatures, and the attempts made to protect them.Unlike many of today’s humane organizations, those Pearson follows were delegated police powers to make arrests and bring cases of cruelty to animals and children before local magistrates. Those whom they prosecuted were subject to fines, jail time, and the removal of either animal or child from their possession. Pearson explores the limits of and motivation behind this power and argues that while these reformers claimed nothing more than sympathy with the helpless and a desire to protect their rights, they turned “cruelty” into a social problem, stretched government resources, and expanded the state through private associations. The first book to explore these dual organizations and their storied history, The Rights of the Defenseless will appeal broadly to reform-minded historians and social theorists alike.
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Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age

Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age

Donna M. Lucey

Crown Publishing Group (NY)
2007
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Filled with glamour, mystery, and madness, Archie and Am lie is the true story chronicling a tumultuous love affair in the Gilded Age. John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Am lie Rives, Southern belle and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning temptress, and a woman ahead of her time. Archie and Am lie seemed made for each other--both were passionate, intense, and driven by emotion--but the very things that brought them together would soon tear them apart. Their marriage began with a "secret" wedding that found its way onto the front page of the New York Times, to the dismay of Archie's relatives and Am lie's many gentleman friends. To the world, the couple appeared charmed, rich, and famous; they moved in social circles that included Oscar Wilde, Teddy Roosevelt, and Stanford White. But although their love was undeniable, they tormented each other, and their private life was troubled from the start. They were the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day--a celebrated couple too dramatic and unconventional to last--but their tumultuous story has largely been forgotten. Now, Donna M. Lucey vividly brings to life these extraordinary lovers and their sweeping, tragic romance. "In the Virginia hunt country just outside of Charlottesville, where I live, the older people still tell stories of a strange couple who died some two generations ago. The stories involve ghosts, the mysterious burning of a church, a murder at a millionaire's house, a sensational lunacy trial, and a beautiful, scantily clad young woman prowling her gardens at night as if she were searching for something or someone--or trying to walk off the effects of the morphine that was deranging her. I was inclined to dismiss all of this as tall tales Virginians love to spin out; but when I looked into these yarns I found proof that they were true. . . ." --Donna M. Lucey on Archie and Am lie
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The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

Janet Wallach

ANCHOR BOOKS
2013
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No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. Now the acclaimed author of Desert Queen delivers the definitive biography of America's first female tycoon, "an investment pioneer who matched her male counterparts in ambition and guile, and never backed down from a fight.... Filled with colorful historical details of an economic time that eerily parallels our own." --San Francisco Chronicle Hetty Green was a strong woman who forged her own path, she was worth at least $100 million by the end of her life in 1916--equal to about $2.5 billion today. Green was mocked for her simple Quaker ways and her unfashionable frugality in an era of opulence and excess; the press even nicknamed her "The Witch of Wall Street." But those who knew her admired her wit and wisdom, and while financiers around her rose and fell as financial bubbles burst, she steadily amassed a fortune that supported businesses, churches, municipalities, and even the city of New York. Janet Wallach's engrossing biography reveals striking parallels between past financial crises and current recession woes, and speaks not only to history buffs but to today's investors, who just might learn a thing or two from Hetty Green.
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New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

Routledge
2020
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Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy.
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Golden Dragons, Gilded Age

Golden Dragons, Gilded Age

S M Perlow

Bealion Publishing
2015
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The Dark Elves and their savage black dragons have been defeated. Emotes wield the only magic left in the world, the ability to heal those they care for. Gold dragons ensure that the peace that has lasted for hundreds of years continues to endure.A youthful princess regards the tranquil age a boring one offering no chance of valor, so she escapes her kingdom to scout in the forest of the Red Elves.A knight turned bounty hunter, who's never lost a fight, finds himself the target of a plot hatched by desperate young twins.A brooding half-elf, summoned by an old friend to the fort she commands, harbors a deep love and hides a harrowing secret.Thankfully for those in peaceful Taulus who dream of conflict, the Dark Elves are not dwelling idly in their swamp prison.The evil stirring in the east threatens all beyond their swamp's borders-restless princess, gallant bounty hunter, clever twins, and troubled half-elf alike.
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New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

New York: Art and Cultural Capital of the Gilded Age

Routledge
2018
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Fueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New York’s built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New York’s modernization and cosmopolitanism—the product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the city’s economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New York’s late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the city’s cultural ascendancy.
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A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age

Philip Dray

Picador USA
2023
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An account of a lynching that took place in New York in 1892, forcing the North to reckon with its own racism. On June 2, 1892, in the small, idyllic village of Port Jervis, New York, a young Black man named Robert Lewis was lynched by a violent mob. The twenty-eight-year-old victim had been accused of sexually assaulting Lena McMahon, the daughter of one of the town's well-liked Irish American families. The incident was infamous at once, for it was seen as a portent that lynching, a Southern scourge, surging uncontrollably below the Mason-Dixon Line, was about to extend its tendrils north. What factors prompted such a spasm of racial violence in a relatively prosperous, industrious upstate New York town, attracting the scrutiny of the Black journalist Ida B. Wells, just then beginning her courageous anti-lynching crusade? What meaning did the country assign to it? And of what did the incident forewarn? Today, it's a terrible truth that the assault on the lives of Black Americans is neither a regional nor a temporary issue, but a national crisis. Black people are regularly killed by police, and the term "Jim Crow" has found new purpose in describing the harsh conditions of life for the formerly incarcerated, as well as the large-scale efforts to make voting inaccessible to Black people and other minority citizens. That what drove the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was a "mobocratic spirit"--a phrase Abraham Lincoln used as early as 1838 to describe vigilantism's corrosive effect on America--frightfully insinuates that mob violence is a viable means of effecting political change. These issues remain as deserving of our concern now as they did 130 years ago, when America turned its gaze to Port Jervis. An alleged crime, a lynching, a misbegotten attempt at an official inquiry, and a past unresolved--in A Lynching at Port Jervis, the acclaimed historian Philip Dray revisits this time and place to consider its significance in our communal history and to show how justice cannot be achieved without an honest reckoning.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Gilded Pocket Edition

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Gilded Pocket Edition

Washington Irving

Sirius Entertainment
2025
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This elegant collector's edition presents Washington Irving's terrifying tale, 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' alongside 15 other of his classic short stories, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges. 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' tells the tale of superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane who seeks the hand of Katrina, but finds he has a rival for her affections in the form of Brom Bones Van Brunt who likes to play tricks on him. Turned down by Katrina, 'heavy-hearted and crestfallen' he rides through the autumn night where he encounters a headless horseman in a classic American ghost story that is often referenced today. It's a companion piece to 'Rip Van Winkle', which you'll also find here among many other great short stories from Washington Irving. This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition contains these classic and unabridged tales, presented with a gold embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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Meditations on First Philosophy and Other Metaphysical Writings: Gilded Pocket Edition

Meditations on First Philosophy and Other Metaphysical Writings: Gilded Pocket Edition

René Descartes

Sirius Entertainment
2025
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This elegant collector's edition presents Jean-Jacques Rousseau's classic philosophical work, Meditations on First Philosophy, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. The Meditations on First Philosophy is one of Descartes's best-known works and one of the most influential philosophical texts ever written. This treatise offers Descartes' metaphysical views on the relationship between the mind and thought, the nature of reality and how accumulated knowledge and our experiences affect us. First published in 1641, the work consists of six meditations on the following topics: the dubiousness of thoughts and assumptions - as Descartes puts it, 'what can be called into doubt'; the nature of the human mind; the existence of God; truth versus falsehood; the essence of material things and, finally, the difference between mind and body. For anyone interested in the study of philosophy, this is an essential and illuminating read. This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition contains the classic and unabridged text, presented with a gold embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any philosophy lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories: Gilded Pocket Edition

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories: Gilded Pocket Edition

H. P. Lovecraft

Sirius Entertainment
2025
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This handsome hardback edition presents H. P. Lovecraft's classic cosmic horror novella At the Mountains of Madness, among other celebrated tales, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. In H. P. Lovecraft's chilling novella, At the Mountains of Madness, scientists from Miskatonic University embark on an expedition to an abandoned city in the Antarctic. As its secrets are gradually revealed, the professors discover there are ancient terrors lurking beneath the ice-and they promise a future too horrible to contemplate. This collection also includes two other classic tales from the Cthulhu mythos, "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "The Thing on the Doorstep". Together these three tales provide the perfect introduction to the unnerving world of the Cthulhu mythos. This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition contains the classic, unabridged text, presented with a gold embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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Human, All Too Human: Gilded Pocket Edition

Human, All Too Human: Gilded Pocket Edition

Frederich Nietzsche

Sirius Entertainment
2026
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This handsome hardback edition presents Friedrich Nietzsche's classic philosophical work, Human, All Too Human, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. Ranging from a few words to a few pages, the aphorisms in Human, All Too Human present Friedrich Nietzsche's thoughts on a variety of subjects, including the nature of reality (metaphysics); moral feelings, especially the concepts of good and evil; the argument that great art is the product of hard work as opposed to 'genius' and inspiration; free-thinking; the evolution of men, women and children; and the limitations that people put on their own thoughts and reasoning. Human, All Too Human marks Nietzsche's decision to embrace new concepts and a fascinating turning point in the work of one of the 19th century's greatest philosophers. This deluxe pocket-sized gift edition is presented with an embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic literature. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.
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