Henry Blake Fuller (1857–1929)
Autor de Bertram Cope's Year
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: MINOR MODERNS
Obras de Henry Blake Fuller
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Fuller, Henry Blake
- Otros nombres
- Page, Stanton (pseudonym)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1857-01-09
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1929-07-28
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Chicago, Illinois, USA (birth|death)
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1898)
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 266
- Popularidad
- #86,736
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 95
Taking place in Chicago at the end of the 19th century, it's about the lives of a handful of people who are ready to"clean up" capitalistic-wise. There're suckers to be had, so why not take them. They all do business in a"gigantic" (14-story) skyscraper called The Clifton.
I would have given this 2.5 stars, but I just love this type of storyline: where rich people claw their way over each other, even fooking over their own family members, to make money. And then they reap what they sowed. Hahaha. Does my heart good.
Here's a quote from an especially loathsome character; the owner of the bank at the base of the Clifton. One of his daughters is smitten with a gigolo-type singer in the choir of her church (he is actually paid for this), because he "sings like an angel." She tells her father she "will marry him." Her father forbids it, and when she goes ahead and marries the no-good bum, and ends up beaten, and abandoned, and pregnant, he refuses to even look at her. His other daughter, who is a living saint, implores him to help her:
P.122-3:
"The wretch had struck his daughter - a brutal, hateful thing as regarded his daughter or any daughter or any other woman; but his daughter had defied him, overridden him, and the man whom she had chosen for a master was now the instrument of her punishment. The accounts appeared to balance. However, figures do lie, and his own agitation indicated that the x of human emotion had not been completely eliminated from his problem.
He cleared his throat. 'she has made her bed, Abbie,' he said in a husky tone, 'and now she must lie on it.'
Hateful, hateful thing to do to your own child. But I had experience with this From my own mother.
The language is very old-fashioned and at times, laborious. This author had a big verbal lexicon.
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