Description:The Willick woman.--The rent man.--The rag, bone, and balloon man.--The fish man.--The soul of Smithfield.--That which is called Johnston.--Monsieur among the mushrooms.--The boiler of bones.--The madman.--Julius McCullough Leckey Craig.--The little child, the wisest of allExcerpt from Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success From childhood I have had a special affection for certain queer people. And when I came to an age at which I could write about them, I found myself puzzled, because I knew instinctively that realism would be quite useless as a method of describing them. So I treated them in a manner of my own. It is not idealism; it is, as the reader will see, something more than idealism. Yet I claim that they are truly described, and that just the impression which they made upon my mind has been truly reproduced, at least for myself, upon paper in the form of words. I remember, as a very small child, visiting a lunatic asylum with my mother. Lunacy attracted me strangely; and to gain the experience which I required in order to sketch a lunatic in words, I "signed on" for the final lectures in a city asylum....We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success. To get started finding Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Dublin: Talbot Press ; London: Unwin
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1917
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Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success
Description: The Willick woman.--The rent man.--The rag, bone, and balloon man.--The fish man.--The soul of Smithfield.--That which is called Johnston.--Monsieur among the mushrooms.--The boiler of bones.--The madman.--Julius McCullough Leckey Craig.--The little child, the wisest of allExcerpt from Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success From childhood I have had a special affection for certain queer people. And when I came to an age at which I could write about them, I found myself puzzled, because I knew instinctively that realism would be quite useless as a method of describing them. So I treated them in a manner of my own. It is not idealism; it is, as the reader will see, something more than idealism. Yet I claim that they are truly described, and that just the impression which they made upon my mind has been truly reproduced, at least for myself, upon paper in the form of words. I remember, as a very small child, visiting a lunatic asylum with my mother. Lunacy attracted me strangely; and to gain the experience which I required in order to sketch a lunatic in words, I "signed on" for the final lectures in a city asylum....We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success. To get started finding Unknown Immortals: In the Northern City of Success, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.