A Carter G. Woodson Reader

Carter G. Woodson was a major influence on African-American thought in much of the twentieth century through his editorship of The Journal of Negro History, which was renamed the Journal of African American History in 2001, and the three complete works presented here:

Dr. Woodson is often called the father of black history.



An Abolition Reader

An Abolition Reader contains five complete manuscripts that are essential to understanding the abolitionist movement in the United States and in England:





Two Civil War Diaries

This book contains two Civil diaries, representing the two sides of this horrific war. In "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital," J. B. Jones shows the growth of disillusionment of a soldier far removed from the conflict but intimately familiar with the passage of the war. (Note the spelling of the last word of the title of this diary.)

In "The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War: 1861-1865," Leander Stillwell describes the war from the perspective of a man far, far from his Illinois home.



A Grimke Reader

A Grimke Reader provides an excellent introduction to the writings and heroics of this influential family of Massachusetts Abolitionists. The sisters, Sarah and Angelina, are, perhaps, the most famous members of this family. Some of the most important writings, speeches, and actions of the family are included here, along with a biography of the sisters by Catherine H. Birney and a description of a family funeral by Theodore Dwight Weld, a member of the famous Weld family that produced a current presidential candidate a and a movie star).



The Plot to Assassinate Lincoln and the War on Anarchy

This volume contains two works:

Each author has an important role in American history due to each of them founding a major detective agency with many accomplishments, some of which are recounted herein.



Tales of Atlantis

Atlantis has been the source of legends that have fascinated readers from, at least, the time of Plato to almost modern times. This work contains the complete text of the most interesting of these stories:





Black and Native American Soldiers in the Civil War

This volume contains the complete text of two books about the important contributions of two ethnic groups whose exemplary military service during the United States Civil War are not as well known as they should be: African-Americans and Native Americans.

The two complete works included in this volume are The Black Phalanx, by Joseph T. Wilson and The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War, by Annie Heloise Abel.



An Anne Bronte Reader

This volume contains the following complete works by Anne Bronte:





A Charlotte Bronte Reader

This volume contains the following complete works by Charlotte Bronte:





Wuthering Heights

This is the complete classic novel of Emily Bronte. Wuthering Heights is a classic book by a telented author member of a talented family.



The Big Bronte Book

This volume contains the following complete works by the Brontes, with some additional commentary by Theo. Wolfe, Frederika Macdonald, and May Sinclair.

Many of the Bronte's works were originally published under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, a whimsy that they kept long after the true names of the authors became known.

By Anne Bronte:

By Charlotte Bronte: By Emily Bronte: By Patrick Bronte: By Theo Wolfe: By Frederika Macdonald: By May Sinclair: By Anne, Charlotte, Emily, and Patrick Bronte:



Classics of Slavery

This volume, entitled Classics of Slavery, by Solomon Northup, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, contains three complete works:





Alabama Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 129 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Alabama at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Arkansas Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 716 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Arkansas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Florida Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 67 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Florida at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Georgia Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 186 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Georgia at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Indiana Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 63 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Indiana at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Kansas Slave narratives





Kentucky Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 43 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Kentucky at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Maryland Slave Narratives





Mississippi Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 26 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Mississippi at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Missouri Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 82 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Missouri at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



North Carolina Slave Narratives

his book contains the complete collection of all 176 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in North Carolina at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Ohio Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 37 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Ohio at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Oklahoma Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 75 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Oklahoma at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



South Carolina Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 285 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in South Carolina at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Tennessee Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 26 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Tennessee at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Texas Slave narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 305 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Texas at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Virginia Slave Narratives

This book contains the complete collection of all 14 narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in Virginia at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All seven of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



Slave Narratives From the Confederacy

This book contains the complete collection of all narratives told to employees of the Work Projects Administration by former slaves living in the states that comprised the Confederate States of America. The narratives were collected in 1936-1938 at the time of the Great Depression in the United States. The narratives in this varied collection include stories of life as a slave, life after the end of the Civil War, and life well into the 1930s when they were written down and compiled into multiple publications. All of these individual publications have been combined into this single volume. In addition to describing life before and after slavery, the stories are a treasure trove of insights into culture, folklore, religion, music, and food. Genealogists may find additional information about their own families.



A Colonialism Reader

This volume contains several critical views of colonialism from a variety of perspectives in many widely separated parts of the world: Africa, the Americas, India, and Australia.





A Colonial America Reader

This volume, the first in a series about colonial America, describes life in several colonies: with special emphasis on Massachusetts and Virginia.

The following complete works are included in this volume:





Many by Poe, Dickinson, Nash, Key, and Other Baltimore Poets

This volume contains selected works from several poets that are often difficult to find. All these poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for their inclusion.  The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who is, perhaps most famous for his macabre writings, but whose poetry is still valued today, Emily Dickinson, who is still studied in nearly all college English programs. Francis Scott Key, who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner and was a well-known poet at the time, and Ogden Nash, whose poetry is often unfairly described as doggerel. Much of their work is still influential.

The work of three other, lesser-known poets with a Baltimore connection are also included in this volume: Sidney Lanier, James Ryder Randall, and Lizette Woodworth Reese. Randall is, perhaps, the best known of these three, having written the poem "Maryland My Maryland," which is now the official Maryland State Song. This is jarring to the ears of today's listener, since the poem, and hence the song, glorify violence in the resistance of the Confederacy to the United States during the Civil War.



Middle English Dictionary

This book contains what the title promises: a Middle English Dictionary. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the history and literature of the English language.



A Dictionary of the First, or Oldest Words in the English Language (Old English Dictionary)

This book contains what the title promises: an Old English Dictionary. Its original title was "A Dictionary of the First, or Oldest, Words in the English Language." It will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the history and literature of the English language.



Two Dictionaries: Old and Middle English

This book contains what the title promises: two dictionaries, one for Old English, and one for Middle English. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and anyone interested in the history and literature of the English language.



Odd Dictionaries and Alphabets

This volume, the third in AfterMath's series on dictionaries, contains four complete works. These complete works are:

The Devil's Dictionary is probably the most famous work here, reflecting the unusual humor of Ambrose Bierce.

The Foolish Dictionary is in the same vein, as is Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Women and the Alphabet.

The Anti-Slavery Alphabet reflects a different view of the world, written at a time when slavery was all too rampant in the United States.



Slang Dictionaries

This volume contains three complete works. The focus is dictionaries of slang, or common usage of the English language.

The first work included in this volume is The Slang Dictionary, by John Camden Hotten. The work shows the state of slang in England in 1913.

The second work included in this volume is an older slang dictionary entitled 1811 Dictionary in the Vulgar Tongue. The author of this work is Francis Grose. The reader interested in linguistics and language will enjoy tracing changes in usages between the first dictionary and this one.

The third dictionary included herein is The Devil's Dictionary, which was written by Ambrose Bierce over a long period of time and finally concluded in 1906. While intended to be humorous, several of the definitions have made their way into popular usage.

The careful reader will note the movement of slang usage in the language used "across the pond" in many instances.

The books in this volume will be of use to students and aficionados of language, readers of classics, and anyone wishing to write a period piece using common usage during the times of these dictionaries.



Perspectives on Etiquette

The first name that comes to mind about when discussing etiquette is Emily Post, whose most famous work is included herein. However, other writers have different perspectives, and they address them in the 2000 pages included within this volume. The volume includes different perspectives on etiquette from a husband and wife, from a bachelor, from Deans of Girls in High Schools and others. The complete works included in this volume are:




Faust, Faust, and Faustus

This volume contains complete works by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, William Mountfort, H. B. Cotterill, and Arthur Davison Ficke, all on the same theme of a pact with the devil. Included are the following complete works:




Troy, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and More

This book contains the following complete works about the fabulous, and fabled, city of Troy:

The book also contains a recent satellite image of Troy, showing its position in modern-day Turkey.



Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 1

This book contains several classic science fiction stories about Mars:




Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 2

This book ccontains the following twenty classic short stories with a primary Mars theme:




Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 3

This volume contains twelve classic novels, essays, and stories about the planet Mars written by the following authors: George Du Maurier, Tom Godwin, Charles L. Fontenay, Mark Clifton, Randall Garrett, Stanley L. Weinbaum, Eros Urides, Jack Sharkey, Mark Wicks, L.P. Gratacap, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Andrew North (Andre Norton). The contents of this volume are:




Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 4

This volume contains complete stories and essays by Giovanni Schiaparelli, Alfred Russel Wallace, Daniel Kirkwood, Emanuel Swedenborg, and Fenton Ash. The works included in this volume are:




Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 5

This is Volume 5 in the seven-volume set, Classic Martian Stories. Classic science fiction stories included in this volume are:




Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 6

This volume includes classic stories from Astounding Magazine July 1930 and August 1930, many with a Mars theme. The stories are by Capt. S. P. Meek, Arthur J. Burks, Tom Curry, Harl Vincent, Sewell Peaslee Wright, Charles W. Diffin, Murray Leinster, R. F. Starzl, Victor Rousseau, Edmond Hamilton, and H. Thompson Rich.



Classic Martian Stories, Vol. 7

This volume contains the following seven full-length illustrated stories in the "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" series by Carey Rockwell:




Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

This volume contains the following seven full-length illustrated stories in the "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet" series by Carey Rockwell:




Classic Martian Stories, the Complete Series

This book contains sixty-eight stories from the entire series (volumes 1-7) classic Martian stories that were published previously by AfterMath. Among the fifty-seven authors represented in this inexpensive volume (seven long books for the price of just four!) are: Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Andre Norton, Henry Harrison, Leigh Brackett, Fredric Brown, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Garrett P. Serviss, Tom Leahy: R. F. Starzl, Frank Belknap Long, George du Maurier, Charles L. Fontenay, Eros Urides, Jack Sharkey, Mark Wicks, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Alfred Russel Wallace, Daniel Kirkwood, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Poul Anderson, Carey Rockwell, Tom Leahy, Robert Silverberg, Harl Vincent:, Sewell Peaslee Wright, and Murray Leinster.



Classic Moon Stories, Vol. 1

Volume 1 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:




Classic Moon Stories, Vol. 2

Volume 2 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

The Moon Metal describes a new metal named "artemisium" whose discovery affects the world economy. The moon and mining play a prominent role.

The Moon Pool is a lunar mystery with a biological context that is set in the context of a purported report to a scientific organization.

The Moon Rock is a dark tale that focuses on a mysterious Moon rock.

Dark Moon involves three intrepid adventurers who take a mysterious voyage.

Brood of the Dark Moon is the sequel to Dark Moon.



Classic Moon Stories, Vol. 3

Volume 3 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

From the Earth to the Moon was one of the most influential science fiction stories ever. This highly creative novel illustrates why satellites should be launched as close as possible to the equator to take advantage of the Earth's rotational speed, a choice made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for many of its launches.

All Around the Moon, also by Jules Verne, is the sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. It includes a description of water landings of spacecraft, a common sight for modern astronaut landings.

The First Men in the Moon describes H. G. Wells' distinctive views of the potential for human colonization of the Moon.

Trips to the Moon is interesting as description of a space trip that Lucian of Samosata imagined more than 1,800 years ago.



Classic Moon Stories, the Complete Series

The stories in the three-volume Classic Moon Stories series continue the pattern established in the two previous anthologies published by AfterMath: the seven volumes of Classic Mars Stories and the three volumes of Classic Venus Stories. This book contains the complete collection of these three volumes.

Volume 1 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

Volume 2 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

The Moon Metal describes a new metal named "artemisium" whose discovery affects the world economy. The moon and mining play a prominent role.

The Moon Pool is a lunar mystery with a biological context that is set in the context of a purported report to a scientific organization.

The Moon Rock is a dark tale that focuses on a mysterious Moon rock.

Dark Moon involves three intrepid adventurers who take a mysterious voyage.

Brood of the Dark Moon is the sequel to Dark Moon. Volume 3 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

Volume 3 of the Classic Moon Stories series contains the following complete works:

From the Earth to the Moon was one of the most influential science fiction stories ever. This highly creative novel illustrates why satellites should be launched as close as possible to the equator to take advantage of the Earth's rotational speed, a choice made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for many of its launches.

All Around the Moon, also by Jules Verne, is the sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. It includes a description of water landings of spacecraft, a common sight for modern astronaut landings.

The First Men in the Moon describes H. G. Wells' distinctive views of the potential for human colonization of the Moon.

Trips to the Moon is interesting as description of a space trip that Lucian of Samosata imagined more than 1,800 years ago.



Quacks!

Quacks! contains four complete works, one by Edward Hooker Dewey, M.D., two by John Harvey Kellogg, M.D., and one by the Lydia Pinkham Company.

Dr. Dewey describes the effects of a no-breakfast diet and a severe fasting cure, both of which are strongly contradicted by modern science.

Dr. Kellogg recommends a diet highly based on grains (no surprise, given that he founded the major cereal company that bears his name) but which will not supply all the nutrition now understood to be necessary.

His advice on both male and female sexuality seems bizarre to even the most unsophisticated modern reader.

The Lydia Pinkham Company made a considerable amount of money selling various “nutritional” supplements. Read this one carefully.



Baseball Nostalgia

This volume, formatted to current ebook standards and with an active table of contents, contains three complete books that provide an inside view of early baseball. Two of the authors are members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Works included are:




Football Nostalgia

Love football, but worry about the injuries and hate all the times games are delayed for those annoying commercials. The second book in AfterMath’s sports nostalgia series, Football Nostalgia will take you back to a time when the game was much simpler and the players were not some much larger than the average adult male. The book contains complete works by some of the legends of the game: Walter Camp, William H. Edwards, and Elmer Berry.

Enjoy!



Tennis Nostalgia

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Golf Nostalgia

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A Collection of Golf Poems

This book contains a collection of poems about golf. While poetry is always fascinating, the ability of a few people to evoke the nature of the game in the late twentieth century in the United Kingdom is remarkable.



Essays on Golf

This volume, the third in AfterMath's sports nostalgia series, contains three collections of essays on golf by P.A. Vaile, Horace G. Hutchinson, and Henry Leach. The essays reflect their views of golf in both the United Kingdom and internationally in the early twentieth century. While the essays are very interesting, their interest to the modern reader is greatly increased because the writers often differ with one another on the physical techniques and philosophy of playing winning golf.



The Golf Course Mystery

The astute reader will be able to tell from the title that this book is about a mystery and a golf course.



Titanic Stories

Why is the sinking of the Titanic so compelling even today? Was it the failure of the ship's designer to have full watertight compartments, or to not have sufficient lifeboats? Was it the hubris of the captain in deciding to break take the northernmost route, and not attempt to avoid the known iceberg dangers? Was it the untrained crew? Was it the decision to keep many steerage-class passengers from getting access to lifeboats for long intervals, although many of these passengers could have fit on some of the almost empty lifeboats? Was it the lack of safety procedures, such as the wireless message of disaster only being received by a fortunate circumstance? Ws it the responses of government hearings on both sides of the Atlantic?

Was it the heroic stories of survivors, especially the wives who chose to die with their husbands? Was it the glorious scene of the musicians playing Nearer My God to Thee as the ship sank? Was it the memorials in Halifax, Washington, and elsewhere?

Or was it the recent blockbuster movie, the one that inspired a young moviegoer to say to her friend that she hoped the movie had a happy ending? This volume includes:




Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1

Tales of vampires are still as frightening as they were when I first read Bram Stoker's Dracula. This volume contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. It begins with Bram Stoker's classic Dracula and includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures:

Don't read these too late at night. Keep the lights on if you do.



Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 2

Tales of vampires are still as frightening as they were when I first read Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was the first story in Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1. This volume, number 2 in the vampire series, continues the pattern of Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1, and contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. This volume includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures: Vikram and the Vampire, by the famous world traveler, Sir Richard Burton, and the unusual Varney, The Vampire, by Thomas Preskett Prest. As with all the volumes in this series, don't read these too late at night. Keep the lights on if you do.



Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 3

Tales of vampires are still as frightening as they were when I first read Bram Stoker's Dracula, which was the first story in Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1. This volume, number 3 in the vampire series, continues the pattern of Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1 and 2, and contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. This volume includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures:

As with all the volumes in this series, don't read these too late at night. Keep the lights on if you do.



Great Vampire Stories, the Complete Series

This book contains the complete manuscripts previously provided only in the three volumes of the Great Vampire Stories books. Tales of vampires are still as frightening as they were when I first read Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Volume 1 contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. It begins with Bram Stoker's classic Dracula and includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures: The Vampyre; A Tale, by John William Polidori, Clarimonde, by Theophile Gautier, and Carmilla, by J. Sheridan LeFanu.

Volume 2 continues the pattern of Great Vampire Stories, Vol. 1, and contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. This volume includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures: Vikram and the Vampire, by the famous world traveler, Sir Richard Burton, and the unusual Varney, The Vampire, by Thomas Preskett Prest.

Volume 3 contains some of the scariest, and most fascinating stories. This volume includes the following complete tales of strange and exotic places and even more strange and exotic creatures:

Don't read these too late at night. Keep the lights on if you do.



Classic Venus Stories, Vol. 1

This volume contains the following four complete classic science fiction works about our neighboring planet, Venus.

The volume also contains a speculation about life on other worlds by E. Walter Maunder that is entitled Are the Planets Inhabited?

Together, the works included in this volume provide insight into how space travel to, and life on, the planet Venus was viewed by some of our most creative writers.



Classic Venus Stories, Vol. 2

This volume contains the full text of the following works:

There is also a full-length radio play novel by Ralph Milne Farley entitled The Radio Beasts that is typical of the exciting stories told on that classic entertainment medium.



Classic Venus Stories, the Complete Series

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Voyages to America

This book describes accounts of the five most important voyages to America:




Shakespeare in Birds and Music

Shakespeare in Birds and Music is a pairing of the two oddest works ever written about Shakespeare.

The first, entitled The Ornithology of Shakespeare and written by James Edmund Harting, describes all the allusions to birds that appear in Shakespeare’s works.

The second, entitled “Shakespeare and Music” and written by Edward W. Naylor, describes the musical instruments popular around the time of Shakespeare, and makes connections certain to delight the reader interested in a new view of Shakespeare's works.



Who Was Shakespeare?

This volume, number 2 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains several fascinating writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who William Shakespeare was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays. Included are:




Shakespeare's Rogues and Characters

This volume includes complete works by John Awdeley, Thomas Harman, William Hazlitt, and others.

The first work, "The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth," itself, is a collection that includes "Fraternitye of Vacabondes," by John Awdeley, and "Caveat," by Thomas Harman, with an introduction by Edward Viles and F. J. Furnvall.

The second complete work, "Characters of Shakespeare's Plays," was written by William Hazlitt, and includes an Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.



Bacon and Shakespeare

Who Really Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

This book contains complete manuscripts by three important authors and researchers who consider this ageless question. What do you think? Several complete Manuscripts Are Included In This Volume:

They Can't Even Agree On The Spelling!



Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. I

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. I was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development of one of America's most important industrial cities during its heyday. It contains many interesting maps and photographs. The book will be of special interest to historians of Americana, of the industrial world, of the role of cities in international commerce, and to people with roots in this important area.



Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. II was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development of one of America's most important industrial cities during its heyday. The book will be of special interest to historians of Americana, of the industrial world, of the role of cities in international commerce, and to people with roots in this important area. The book also contains useful genealogical information on a large number of families of importance in the mercantile and artistic communities of Baltimore.



Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III

Baltimore: Its History and Its People, Vol. III was originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development of one of America's most important industrial cities during its heyday. The book will be of special interest to historians of Americana, of the industrial world, of the role of cities in international commerce, and to people with roots in this important area. The book also contains useful genealogical information on a large number of families of importance in the mercantile and artistic communities of Baltimore.



Baltimore: Its History and Its People, in Three Volumes

Volumes I, II, and III of Baltimore: Its History and Its People were originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall. The book is relevant today because of its unique views of the development of one of America's most important industrial cities during its heyday. It contains many interesting maps and photographs. The book will be of special interest to historians of Americana, of the industrial world, of the role of cities in international commerce, and to people with roots in this important area. The book also contains useful genealogical information on a large number of families of importance in the mercantile and artistic communities of Baltimore. Each volume was recently republished as an individual volume by Aftermath. This volume, entitled "Baltimore: Its History and Its People in Three Volumes" contains the complete contents of these previously published works packaged in a single publication.



Baltimore Hats

This odd book is about what the title says: Baltimore hats. The author was a notable expert in the field of textiles, among other things. The initial letters of each chapter, nearly all of which are included in this volume, are fascinating examples of calligraphy.



The Crevice

The two authors of "The Crevice" are about as well-suited to writing crime novels together as any pair in the world. William J. Burns was born in had served as the director of the Bureau of Investigation, which was a predecessor to the FBI, and as a member of the Secret Service before founding the eponymous detective agency. He often published "true crime" stories that were based on his cases.

Isabel Ostrander was born in 1883. She was a prolific author of mystery novels and short stories from 1911 until her early death in 1924. Ostrander was successful enough to have been parodied by Agatha Christie in her 1920s collection of stories featuring the characters Tommy and Tuppence.

"The Crevice" is the only known collaboration of this dynamic duo.



The Early Dos Passos Reader

This volume contains the following works of John Dos Passos:

It also contains a nineteenth century polemic by his father, John Randolph Dos Passos about why the United States should recognize Cuba.

John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on January 14, 1896. His father was John Randolph Dos Passos; many people get confused when making Internet searches for the son, who is the more famous author by far. The elder Dos Passos was married when the younger John Dos Passos was born out of wedlock. Although the father later married his son John's mother after the death of his wife in 1910 when the younger John Dos Passos was 14, he refused to acknowledge John as his son until he turned 16. In spite of these familial difficulties, the younger John Dos Passos, hereinafter referred to as simply John Dos Passos, benefitted from an expensive, first-class education, all presumably, paid for by his father. He enrolled at what now is called Choate Rosemary Hall preparatory school in Connecticut and then traveled with a private tutor on a six-month tour to study art, architecture, and literature.

After he graduated from Harvard in 1916, he went to Spain, where he volunteered as an ambulance driver during World War I before the United States entered the war. In 1918, he enlisted in the U. S. Army Medical Corps. During this time, he completed a draft of his first novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917, which began his career as a highly successful writer.

After he started writing as a career, he became friends with Ernest Hemingway and several other writers of the "lost generation." He soon began to see the United States as two nations, one rich and one poor. He spent several months in Russia studying socialism in 1928. In the 1930s, he served on The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky (the so-called Dewey Commission) which had been set up following the first of the Moscow "Show Trials" in 1936. He returned to Spain during the Spanish Civil War, but his views on the Communists and Communism had already begun to change. Dos Passos broke with Hemingway and others over attitudes towards the war and willingness to lend their names to deceptive Stalinist propaganda. He and Hemingway became bitter enemies. John Dos Passos would later write: "I have come to think, especially since my trip to Spain, that civil liberties must be protected at every stage." He continued his career as a writer with the publication of numerous other books, over thirty-seven of which were published. The last was published in 1970, the year of his death in Baltimore.

John Dos Passos is probably best known today for his U.S.A trilogy. Unfortunately, since these three books were published in the 1930s, they do not appear to be available in the public domain in the United States. Hence, they are not included in this anthology. A motivated reader can probably find a version of these books on the Internet.

In 1947, he was elected to membership in the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters.

John Dos Passos died on September 28, 1970 in Baltimore, Maryland, which is why he is included in the Baltimore Authors series published by AfterMath.

A final note on his father is in order. John Randolph Dos Passos was an authority on trusts and supported many of the most powerful conglomerates and cartels in his writings. Not surprisingly, given the obviously tense and complex relationship between father and son, the younger John Dos Passos wrote in opposition to many of his father’s published positions in many of his books. For purposes of comparison, the arguments of the older Dos Passos about the liberation of Cuba from Spain are included in this volume. It appears that his only connection to Baltimore is through his son.



Many by Douglass and Du Bois p> This volume contains the complete text of several important works by Frederick Douglass and W. E. B. DuBois, two of the greatest minds of the American Negro community during the 19th century. (For quite some time the preferred term has been, of course, African-American.) Several of the most important and best-known works of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, and My Escape From Slavery, are included in this volume.

The work of W. E. B. DuBois is also well represented in this volume, with The Souls of Black Folks and The Talented Tenth.

Booker T. Washington, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Wilford H. Smith, A. T. Kealing, and T. Thomas Fortune also have work included in this volume.



A Frederick Douglass Reader

This volume contains the full text of twenty-three of the most important publications of Frederick Douglass that are available for electronic dissemination. Works included are:




A W. E. B. Du Bois Reader

This volume is indispensible for anyone interested in African-American history, philosophy, sociology, and literature. It contains the important writings of a formidable figure: William Edward Burghardt DuBois. W .E. B. DuBois was born in rural western Massachusetts in 1868 during the Reconstruction period after the end of the Civil War. He did not experience many of the problems of others of his race during his growing years, but went to Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he graduated. He undoubtedly had his first serious encounter with virulent racism in that former member state of the Confederacy. He later went on to study at Harvard, where he became to first African-American to achieve a doctorate. He was one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. After the end of World War I, he traveled extensively in Europe in support of Pan-Africanism. He later had several disagreements with Marcus Garvey, over the importance of integration vs. separation. He died in Accra, Ghana, in 1963. There are several important books included in this volume.

It is clear that Du Bois' oratorical experience and talent extended to his novel writing. A passage from Darkwater shows the power of his writing and his ideas. "Why-won't-Negroes-work?" she panted. "I have given money for years to Hampton and Tuskegee and yet I can't get decent servants. They won't try. They're lazy! They're unreliable! They're impudent and they leave without notice. They all want to be lawyers and doctors and" (she spat the word in venom) "ladies!"



A Fitzgerald Reader

You know who F. Scott Fitzgerald is. He had a short, but extremely productive life, dying in 1940 at the age of 44. This volume contains five of his early works:




Karsner, Traubel, Debs, and Trouble

This ebook is about American socialism, a very popular movement at a time of serious financial problems, including bank failures and labor unrest. It includes works by David Karsner and Eugene V. Debs, a frequent presidential candidate. It contains:




Many by Key and One by Weybright

This volume contains the complete text of several poems, orations, essays, and manuscripts written by Francis Scott Key, a lengthy introductory letter by Roger B. Taney to an 1857 book containing many of the poems that were written by Key, and a complete manuscript on the subject of Key by Victor Weybright. Key and Taney, both native Marylanders, are famous names in American history. Frances Scott Key is most famous for being imprisoned temporarily on a small ship in Baltimore harbor during the time that the British fleet bombarded Fort McHenry during the War of 1812, with the aim of invading the city of Baltimore, Maryland. While on this ship, he was moved to write a poem, which he put to the tune of an old English drinking song, and which, since 1931, has been the national anthem of the United States. The anthem is, of course, the Star-Spangled Banner.

The other poems, orations, essays, hymns, religious polemics, letters, anti-slavery activities, and other writings of Francis Scoot Key are not as famous as his primary work. Yet they give an unparalleled view into the thinking of an educated man who lived during some of the most turbulent times in the history of the world, with major wars in North America and Europe. A large collection of them is given here in this volume.

The volume includes a hard-to-find, major work by historian Victor Weybright on the life and times of the fascinating Mr. Key.



A Sidney Lanier Reader

Sidney Lanier was one of the most important American poets of the late 19th century. Born in Georgia in 1842, he was influenced by the ancestry of his family, his parents religiosity, his education at Oglethorpe University, and the wealth of information he found in the Peabody Library in Baltimore, where he spent an important part of his life on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. He was also famous for his scholarly contributions to literary theory, a subject of considerable interest even to this day.

Among the more than one hundred poems in this 1196-page volume are:

A scholarly work on the English novel shows the breadth of Sidney Lanier's knowledge. A long biographical sketch of Lanier and his place in American literature by Edward Mims is included herein.



Six by Mencken and One by Nietzsche

This volume contains the complete text of seven books. Six of them, Damn! A Book Of Calumny, A Book Of Prefaces, A Book Of Burlesques, The American Credo, In Defense Of Women, and Europe After 8:15 were written by H. L. Mencken.

A seventh book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche and translated by Mencken, who also wrote the forward.

The book has been reformatted for consistency, to produce an accurate Table of Contents, and to display well on modern e-readers. Some redundancy has been removed from available electronic editions.



More by Mencken

This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: Pistols for Two, Heliogabalus, The Artist: A Drama Without Words, Suggestions to Our Visitors, and George Bernard Shaw: His Plays. None of these books are included in the volume Six by Mencken and One by Nietzsche, which was also compiled by Ronald J. Leach, and is also available on this ebook store.




Mencken and Nietzsche

This volume contains the complete text of two books. H. L. Mencken translated the book The Philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche from the original German. The second book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche and translated by Mencken, who also wrote the forward. The book has been reformatted for consistency, to produce an accurate Table of Contents, and to display well on modern e-readers. Some redundancy has been removed from available electronic editions. The original manuscripts were used to correct errors of totally garbled text that appear in all the previously published free electronic versions.

Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore, September 12, 1880. His family moved to a house in the historic Union Square area of southwest Baltimore, Maryland, in 1883 where he lived until his death on January 26, 1956. The house, located at is now classified as a National Historic Landmark and is on the U. S. national Register of Historic Places. The house is not currently open to the public. He said of his house: "I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly 45 years. It has changed in that time, as I have-but somehow it still remains the same.... It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg." Mencken was often called the "Baron of Baltimore." It is surprising that anyone with such a chauvinistic view of his childhood house could have such a cosmopolitan view in other matters. Perhaps it is in the nature of his hometown city. The Union Square area of Baltimore is part of a larger area that is highly appealing to artists, having large buildings with good access to light, as well as low rents. Parts of the surrounding area have been home to an interesting eclectic community, although other nearby areas are plagued by vacant buildings.

After graduating from high school, he worked for three years in his father's cigar factory, after which he went to work for the now-defunct Baltimore Morning Herald. After six years, he moved to the The Baltimore Sun where he began writing the editorials and opinion pieces that he became famous for. In 1924, he and George Jean Nathan created and published an influential magazine, The American Mercury, with Mencken serving as editor until 1933. Mencken was an admirer of Nietzsche's ideas. It appears that some of Mencken's ideas about Jews and blacks (not his term, unfortunately) became more enlightened because of the influence of Nietzsche's writings. The two men had relatively similar, but highly controversial, especially for the time, views of religion.

The Central branch of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore contains Mencken's papers and many of his books. They are stored, fittingly, in the library's Mencken Room.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was October 15, 1844 in the small town of Rocken, in what is now Germany, but was then considered part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. (He did not use the middle name Wilhelm in his most important writings.) He died on August 25, 1900. He was, as was Mencken, an important contributor to many disciplines. He was especially well known for his writings as a philosopher, poet, and cultural critic. He was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Basel for ten years, providing him with an ideal occupation in which to pursue his writing. Where Mencken was heavily influenced by reading Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Nietzsche may have had his views on religion influenced by the book Life of Jesus by David Strauss while a young man.

While Nietzsche was most renowned as a philosopher, and his ideas continue to be influential, in the popular culture that dominates the current era he is, perhaps, most famous for some 1960s era graffiti for both a quotation and a (purported) response.

Nietzsche: God is dead.

God: Nietzsche is dead.



The Humor of Mencken

This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: Pistols for Two, Heliogabalus, The Artist: A Drama Without Words, Suggestions to Our Visitors, and George Bernard Shaw: His Plays. None of these books are included in the volume Six by Mencken and One by Nietzsche, which was also compiled by Ronald J. Leach, and is also available on this ebook store.




A Christopher Morley Reader

Christopher Morley showed an unusual talent for humorous writing in many different settings. Here is an example. His description of a commencement address in the Garden of Eden, is both priceless and timeless.

This volume contains the full text of the following manuscripts, as well as a whimsical “biography” written by Morley himself:

He was the son of a mathematician, and spent a considerable amount of his early life in Baltimore, Maryland, which help explain many things. Based on the high quality and large quantity of his work, he is a fine addition to AfterMath's Baltimore Authors series.



Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home + The Title Market

This volume contains two works by Emily Post: her best known work, entitled "Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home", but most commonly referred to as "Etiquette," and a relatively little known novel entitled "The Title Market," which spoofs her own work on etiquette. The ebook has been reformatted to meet current ebook standards such as having an active table of contents.



Four Novels and a Travelogue of Emily Post

This volume contains four novels and a travelogue by Emily Post, the author of the famous "Etiquette book." The four novels included are:

The travelogue is entitled By Motor to the Golden Gate. While these works were written in the early twentieth century, they are still of interest today and are very much worth reading.

"The Flight of a Moth" describes the descent of a woman in love with the right man and lives happily ever after. It has an interesting perspective on both contemporary mores and those of the early twentieth century.

"Woven in the Tapestry" is an unusual fantasy, and in the opinion of the AfterMath staff, is far more interesting than most of the material printed in Galaxy and Analog during the golden age of science fiction and fantasy.

"The Title Market" spoofs Emily Post's own famous work on etiquette.

"The Eagle's Feather" describes the descent of a woman in love with the wrong man and does not live happily ever after, not at all. It, also, has an interesting perspective on both contemporary mores and those of the early twentieth century.

"By Motor to the Golden Gate" is a travelogue that provides an interesting view of travel in America before the time of good roads, certainly far before the experience of the United States military in World War II showed the need for an improved transportation infrastructure. This gave the impetus for the Interstate Highway System and all the resulting development.



An Emily Post Reader

You know Emily Post as the famous author of the equally famous book on etiquette. But did you know that she was an accomplished writer in other genres, including novels and travelogs. All of them are represented here. An Emily Post Reader includes the following complete works:

While these works were written in the early twentieth century, they are still of interest today and are very much worth reading.

"The Flight of a Moth" describes the descent of a woman in love with the right man and lives happily ever after. It has an interesting perspective on both contemporary mores and those of the early twentieth century.

"Woven in the Tapestry" is an unusual fantasy, and in the opinion of the AfterMath staff, is far more interesting than most of the material printed in Galaxy and Analog during the golden age of science fiction and fantasy.

"The Title Market" spoofs Emily Post's own famous work on etiquette.

"The Eagle's Feather" describes the descent of a woman in love with the wrong man and does not live happily ever after, not at all. It, also, has an interesting perspective on both contemporary mores and those of the early twentieth century.

"By Motor to the Golden Gate" is a travelogue that provides an interesting view of travel in America before the time of good roads, certainly far before the experience of the United States military in World War II showed the need for an improved transportation infrastructure. This gave the impetus for the Interstate Highway System and all the resulting development.



Tubman, Douglass, and other Maryland Slave Narratives

This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland. It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and two others.

The difficulties of Harriet Tubman, often called "The Moses of Her People," which is the title of the famous book written by Sarah Bradford, and her well-known success with the Underground Railroad, are described here in Bradford's book.

The story of Frederick Douglass, one of America’s most famous abolitionists, is told in "My Escape From Slavery."

Reverend Noah Davis entitled his narrative simply, "Narrative Of The Life Of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man."

The story of Josiah Henson, "Life Of Josiah Henson, Formerly A Slave, Now An Inhabitant Of Canada, As Narrated By Himself," is considered to have been the model for Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, often called the book that started a war.

James W. C. Pennington entitled his narrative "The Fugitive Blacksmith, or Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington."

John Thompson wrote "The Life Of John Thompson, A Fugitive Slave; Containing His History Of 25 Years In Bondage, And His Providential Escape."

Henry Watson's narrative is entitled "Narrative Of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave."



A Gertrude Stein Reader

This volume contains the following works by Gertrude Stein:

Stein is the author of the phrase "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose." Born in 1874, she moved to Baltimore when orphaned in 1891. She lived an interesting life and had a long literary career. Her friends included the Cone sisters, who introduced her to the Paris arts and letters salon scene, which she tried to replicate in the U.S. Her love triangles and relationship with Alice B. Toklas are legendary.



Seven by Sinclair

This volume, the sixth in the Baltimore Authors series, contains seven books by Upton Sinclair: The Jungle, The Machine, The Moneychangers, King Coal, The Metropolis, The Profits of Religion, and 100%: The Story of a Patriot. Upton Sinclair was one of the first so-called muckrakers, a term popularized by Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt first used the term muckraker in a 1906 speech. In that speech, he said that he agreed with many of the charges of the muckrakers but asserted that some of their methods were sensational and irresponsible. He was referring primarily to Upton Sinclair and the journalist Lincoln Steffens. The work by Upton Sinclair that is most familiar to modern readers is, of course, The Jungle. The book was a sensation when it was published. It focused on the lives of the lowest class of workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry. Sinclair's stated intention was to expose the horribly dangerous conditions in which the workers lived their lives with little reward and constant risk of death or dismemberment (which was almost the same as death in those times of relatively primitive medical care, much of which was rarely available to the workers). What was the result of this sensationally popular work? There was a loud hue and cry, not for better conditions for the workers, but for cleaner practices in the stockyards and packing plants, leading to greater food safety. Food inspection laws were enacted by Congress soon thereafter.

The writings of Upton Sinclair are relevant today, at least from the perspective of societal issues.

The Machine is relevant today because it describes an urban world with its upper and lower classes, with little more than superficial interaction.

Metropolis expands on this urbanization an its effects on people.

100% The Story of a Patriot is, perhaps too cynical a view, although the tendency of some people to wrap themselves in a flag at the same time they espouse ideas counter to what others understand about the United States Constitution and American values.

The Profits of Religion is an especially interesting book in the era of televangelism and megachurches, with scandals in most large religious organizations. It is also interesting to note the major disagreements between those who want an absolute wall between religion and law, as in the United States Constitution, and those who want to remove the barrier entirely. The Profits of Religion is clearly a book to keep on hand when listening to some of the current debates.

The Moneychangers is, perhaps, the most relevant book to the current American people, indeed the people of the world, because the issues of regulating the highly complex financial industry, and providing some ways for controlling the ability of this industry to bring economic ruin to many because of cascading effects. The near-collapse of the world economy in 2008 was a gruesome reminder of just how dangerous the effects of runaway speculation in complex financial instruments with poorly understood risk could be.



The Incas

This volume contains three complete works by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and William Prescott. Bingham's "Inca Land" provides fascinating insights into the ancient and more modern cultures of the Incas and Peru, all in the context of his discovery of Machu Picchu. Sarpiento de Gamboa's "History of the Incas" describes the history of this interesting civilization. Prescott's "The History of the Conquest of Peru" describes a remarkable turning point in world history.



Stories of Inca Treasure

This volume contains complete stories of exotic Incan treasures by three important writers of exotic fiction: H. Rider Haggard, Arthur B. Reeve, and G. A. Henty. Included herein are:





Shakespeare's Background

This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare's plays were originally performed. "A Warwickshire Lad," by George Madden Martin "The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote," by Charles Dudley Warner "Old English Jest-Book," by W. Carew Hazlitt "Folk-Lore of Shakespeare," by T. F. Thiselton Dyer "Shakespearean Playhouses," by Joseph Quincy Adams "The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare," by J. J. Jusserand



Shakespeare's Missing Plays

Shakespeare's Missing Plays? This volume, number 6 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two plays, possibly created by William Shakespeare: "Sir Thomas More" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen," as well as arguments for Shakespeare's authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Spalding and by John Hill Burton.



A Shakespeare Apocrypha

A Shakespeare Apocrypha This unusual volume, number 7 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains a fictional description of the life of Judith Shakespeare (one of William's daughters), by William Black, and an interesting work entitled "Shakespeare's Insomnia," written by Franklin H. Heard.



A Shakespeare Miscellany

This volume, number 9 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, provides some supporting information not readily available and not included in any of the the other volumes in this important series. Note that some of the authors cannot even agree on the spelling of Shakespeare's name. "How Shakspeare Came to Write the 'Tempest," by Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction by Ashley H. Thorndike. "Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest," by Walter Crane "Shakespeare's Christmas Gift To Queen Bess In the year 1596," by Anna Benneson McMahan "Shakspere & Typography," by William Blades "A Study of Shakespeare," by Algernon Charles Swinburne "Shakespeare," by Robert G. Ingersoll "The Critics Versus Shakspere," by Francis A.Smith



Shakespeare: Death and Demons

This slim volume, number 8 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: "Elizabethan Demonology," by Thomas Alfred Spalding "Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them," by C. M. Ingleby



Shakespeare's Gardens and Stones

Shakespeare's Gardens and Stones This slim volume, number 10 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: "The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare," by Henry N. Ellacombe "Shakespeare and Precious Stones," by George Frederick Kunzs






Seven by Sinclair

This volume, the sixth in the Baltimore Authors series, contains seven books by Upton Sinclair: The Jungle, The Machine, The Moneychangers, King Coal, The Metropolis, The Profits of Religion, and 100%: The Story of a Patriot. Upton Sinclair was one of the first so-called muckrakers, a term popularized by Theodore Roosevelt. President Roosevelt first used the term muckraker in a 1906 speech. In that speech, he said that he agreed with many of the charges of the muckrakers but asserted that some of their methods were sensational and irresponsible. He was referring primarily to Upton Sinclair and the journalist Lincoln Steffens. The work by Upton Sinclair that is most familiar to modern readers is, of course, The Jungle. The book was a sensation when it was published. It focused on the lives of the lowest class of workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry. Sinclair's stated intention was to expose the horribly dangerous conditions in which the workers lived their lives with little reward and constant risk of death or dismemberment (which was almost the same as death in those times of relatively primitive medical care, much of which was rarely available to the workers). What was the result of this sensationally popular work? There was a loud hue and cry, not for better conditions for the workers, but for cleaner practices in the stockyards and packing plants, leading to greater food safety. Food inspection laws were enacted by Congress soon thereafter.

The writings of Upton Sinclair are relevant today, at least from the perspective of societal issues.

The Machine is relevant today because it describes an urban world with its upper and lower classes, with little more than superficial interaction.

Metropolis expands on this urbanization an its effects on people.

100% The Story of a Patriot is, perhaps too cynical a view, although the tendency of some people to wrap themselves in a flag at the same time they espouse ideas counter to what others understand about the United States Constitution and American values.

The Profits of Religion is an especially interesting book in the era of televangelism and megachurches, with scandals in most large religious organizations. It is also interesting to note the major disagreements between those who want an absolute wall between religion and law, as in the United States Constitution, and those who want to remove the barrier entirely. The Profits of Religion is clearly a book to keep on hand when listening to some of the current debates.

The Moneychangers is, perhaps, the most relevant book to the current American people, indeed the people of the world, because the issues of regulating the highly complex financial industry, and providing some ways for controlling the ability of this industry to bring economic ruin to many because of cascading effects. The near-collapse of the world economy in 2008 was a gruesome reminder of just how dangerous the effects of runaway speculation in complex financial instruments with poorly understood risk could be.



The Incas

This volume contains three complete works by Hiram Bingham, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and William Prescott. Bingham's "Inca Land" provides fascinating insights into the ancient and more modern cultures of the Incas and Peru, all in the context of his discovery of Machu Picchu. Sarpiento de Gamboa's "History of the Incas" describes the history of this interesting civilization. Prescott's "The History of the Conquest of Peru" describes a remarkable turning point in world history.



Inca Treasure

This volume contains complete stories of exotic Incan treasures by three important writers of exotic fiction: H. Rider Haggard, Arthur B. Reeve, and G. A. Henty. Included herein are:




Shakespeare's Background

This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare's plays were originally performed. "A Warwickshire Lad," by George Madden Martin "The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote," by Charles Dudley Warner "Old English Jest-Book," by W. Carew Hazlitt "Folk-Lore of Shakespeare," by T.A F. Thiselton Dyer "Shakespearean Playhouses," by Joseph Quincy Adams and "The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare," by J. J. Jusserand



Shakespeare's Missing Plays

Shakespeare's Missing Plays? This volume, number 6 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two plays, possibly created by William Shakespeare: "Sir Thomas More" and "The Two Noble Kinsmen," as well as arguments for Shakespeare's authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Spalding and by John Hill Burton.



A Shakespeare Apocrypha

A Shakespeare Apocrypha This unusual volume, number 7 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains a fictional description of the life of Judith Shakespeare (one of William's daughters), by William Black, and an interesting work entitled "Shakespeare's Insomnia," written by Franklin H. Heard.



A Shakespeare Miscellany

This volume, number 9 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, provides some supporting information not readily available and not included in any of the the other volumes in this important series. Note that some of the authors cannot even agree on the spelling of Shakespeare's name. The complete works included are:

"How Shakspeare Came to Write the 'Tempest," by Rudyard Kipling, with an introduction by Ashley H. Thorndike.

"Illustrations to Shakespeare's Tempest," by Walter Crane

"Shakespeare's Christmas Gift To Queen Bess In the year 1596," by Anna Benneson McMahan

"Shakspere & Typography," by William Blades

"A Study of Shakespeare," by Algernon Charles Swinburne

"Shakespeare," by Robert G. Ingersoll

"The Critics Versus Shakspere," by Francis A.Smith



Shakespeare: Death and Demons

This slim volume, number 8 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: "Elizabethan Demonology," by Thomas Alfred Spalding "Shakespeare's Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them," by C. M. Ingleby



Shakespeare's Gardens and Stones

Shakespeare's Gardens and Stones This slim volume, number 10 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: "The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shakespeare," by Henry N. Ellacombe "Shakespeare and Precious Stones," by George Frederick Kunzs.