My New Home in Northern Michigan and Other Tales

Jay, Charles W.

ISBN 10: 0915056100 / ISBN 13: 9780915056101

Edité par Hardscrabble Books [1874] 1979, Berrien Springs, MI, 1874

A propos de cet article

This is an often humorous series of sketches and poems by Charles Jay (1815 - 1884), a New Jersey journalist who ventured to Oceana Co. in his mid-fifties. His sketches are not strictly history, but nevertheless give a glimpse of life in pioneer Michigan during the 1870's written by a journalist and published originally in 1874 in Trenton, New Jersey. Not strictly history, this nevertheless provides a glimpse of what life was like in pioneer Michigan as well as the type of literature that appealed to the people of that era. William Miles of the Clark Historical Library at CMU provides many interesting insights in his introduction. This is a high-quality facsimilie reprint of the original 1874 edition which is now uncommon. A nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings. The dust jacket has just a little wear to rear top edge and is now in removable acetate protective cover. Ref: Black 140; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 180 pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: My New Home in Northern Michigan and Other Tales
• Éditeur: Hardscrabble Books [1874] 1979, Berrien Springs, MI
• Date de parution: 1874
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0915056100
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780915056101
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good

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Synopsis

Book by Charles W Jay

Présentation de l'éditeur

There is generally a feeling of sympathy with such reader toward such author, which strengthens with the progress of perusal, until it ripens into the desire of a more minute knowledge of the outer and inner life of him who has so interested them. Knowing that this little book, the child of my later years, will be kindly received and welcomed by a large number of men, and a far greater number of women the latter always permitting the flood of sympathy, in which eddies the worth less driftwood of sentiment, to overflow the shallower depths of the brain I proceed at once to unlock myself to all such as may be under the suggestions of curiosity, or the promptings of interest, for a glance or a stare at the elephant, as he swings his inky trunk through the coming pages. Like all truly great and eminent men at least in this our own country I was born of poor but respectable parents. My father was a shoemaker, and waxed poorer and poorer with the yearly increase of his family, until he could hardly make both ends meet. His sole means of support was his trade, at which he hammered away day and night, in order to get the upper hand of the hard necessity that tacks dall his energies.
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