The Diamond Lens and Other Stories

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Publisher : Hesperus Press
ISBN 13 : 1780940920
Total Pages : 89 pages
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Download or read book The Diamond Lens and Other Stories written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by Hesperus Press. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing and haunting collection of early science fiction tales by an Irish-American author Fitz-James O'Brien capitalized on the success of his predecessors Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley in writing disturbing stories with demented protagonists, and this collection of three tales shows his mastery of the macabre. "The Diamond Lens" tells of a lone scientist's discovery of a microcosmic world within a drop of water, and his growing obsession with the beautiful Animula, a fair maiden within this world which he can see but never enter. His uncompromising pursuit of knowledge at any cost foreshadows the mad scientist familiar to readers in a multitude of works. In "What Was It?" an invisible man is discovered by residents of a boarding house. The residents' capture and investigation of the creature blends the fantastic with the scientific as they seek rational explanations for this extraordinary phenomenon. "The Wondersmith" is a macabre tale of an embittered toymaker who seeks revenge upon the society that has persecuted him by creating demonic mannequins and imbuing them with life in order to slaughter the masses— a fantastic melodrama in which the cunning Wondersmith is offset by the unassuming and unlikely hero Solon the hunchback, in love with the villain's daughter.

The Wondersmith

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Total Pages : 46 pages
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Download or read book The Wondersmith written by Fitz-James O'Brien and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wondersmith is a spooky Christmas story by Fitz-James O'Brien. O'Brien was an Irish author often considered one of the forerunners of the sci-fi genre. Excerpt: "Zonela was surely not of gypsy blood. That rich auburn hair, that looked almost black in the lamp-light, that pale, transparent skin, tinged with an under-glow of warm rich blood, the hazel eyes, large and soft as those of a fawn, were never begotten of a Zingaro. Zonela was seemingly about sixteen; her figure, although somewhat thin and angular, was full of the unconscious grace of youth."

Fitz-James O'Brien

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Publisher : Bit O'Irish Press
ISBN 13 : 9780692925270
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Fitz-James O'Brien written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by Bit O'Irish Press. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tremendous number of European immigrants came to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s; many came in search of new economic opportunities. Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) came to America (originally from Ireland) in 1852 looking to make his way in the literary world. With impressive recommendations in hand, he had no trouble finding work and immediately started editing and publishing stories in some of the most influential magazines of the day (e.g., Harper's New Monthly Magazine, The American Whig Review, Putnam's Monthly Magazine, and The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine). When the Civil War broke out, in 1861, he joined the Union army and was fatally wounded in 1862. O'Brien is one of the most important American writers in between the first and the second half of the nineteenth-century. He serves as an important literary bridge between Romanticism and Realism. His short stories follow the same natural and supernatural horror, philosophical observations of human nature, and social criticisms as those of the great American triumvirate - Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. It was Poe that had a particularly strong influence on his writing, but the influence of all three of these writers can be seen in his stories. H.P. Lovecraft said of O'Brien, in his important survey of supernatural literature, Supernatural Horror in Literature, "O'Brien's early death undoubtedly deprived us of some masterful tales of strangeness and terror." This collection will be the most complete one-volume edition of O'Brien's works to date. Included in this edition are all his important stories, the ones that he was most known for during his lifetime (e.g., "What Was It?" "The Diamond Lens," and "The Wondersmith"), as well as others that have never been published since their initial publication in the 1850s. This edition comprises about half his total published short stories during his lifetime. Most O'Brien anthologies contain five to eight of his stories, this edition contains over thirty-five short stories, as well as a sampling of his Gothic poetry. All aspects of O'Brien's Gothic will be represented in this edition, the supernatural, urban, fantasy, and tragedy. Also included in this edition are some of his satires and the semi-autobiographical and humorous story "Carrying Weight." This volume will be of interest for courses on American Studies as well as courses focusing on Romantic and Gothic Literature, Horror, Science Fiction, or the Humanities.

The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
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Fitz James O'Brien

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ISBN 13 : 9781494085773
Total Pages : 326 pages
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The Poems and Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien

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Total Pages : 588 pages
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The Lost Room

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721871896
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Collected Stories

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Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Stories written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dream stories and fantasies

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Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780385246491
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Victorian Horror Stories: Usborne Classics Retold

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Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1409569195
Total Pages : 89 pages
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The Girl in the Golden Atom

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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Behind the Curtain

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ISBN 13 : 9781611490466
Total Pages : 0 pages
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7 best short stories by Fitz James O'Brien

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Publisher : Tacet Books
ISBN 13 : 3967991016
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book 7 best short stories by Fitz James O'Brien written by Fitz James O'Brien and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitz-James O'Brien was an Irish-born American author whose psychologically penetrating tales of pseudoscience and the uncanny made him one of the forerunners of modern science fiction. The critic August Nemo selected seven short stories by this remarkable author for your enjoyment: - The Diamond Lens. - The Lost Room. - What Was it? A Mystery. - My Wife's Tempter. - The Golden Ingot. - The Child Who Loved a Grave. - Thw Wondersmith.

Classic Science Fiction

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Publisher : Canterbury Classics
ISBN 13 : 9781684129959
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Poems and Stories Of Fitz-James O'brien

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The Gernsback Awards, 1926

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Total Pages : 330 pages
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Great Weird Tales

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143236
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Great Weird Tales written by S. T. Joshi and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 spellbinding tales, including "The Sin Eater," by Fiona McLeod, "The Eye Above the Mantel," by Frank Belknap Long, as well as renowned works by R. H. Barlow and Lord Dunsany.