The Great War Syndicate - Hardcover

Frank R Stockton, R Stockton; Frank R Stockton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1421847256 ISBN 13: 9781421847252

Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2007

Synopsis

In the spring of a certain year, not far from the close of the nineteenth century, when the political relations between the United States and Great Britain became so strained that careful observers on both sides of the Atlantic were forced to the belief that a serious break in these relations might be looked for at any time, the fishing schooner Eliza Drum sailed from a port in Maine for the banks of Newfoundland. It was in this year that a new system of protection for American fishing vessels had been adopted in Washington. Every fleet of these vessels was accompanied by one or more United States cruisers, which remained on the fishing grounds, not only for the purpose of warning American craft who might approach too near the three-mile limit, but also to overlook the action of the British naval vessels on the coast, and to interfere, at least by protest, with such seizures of American fishing boats as might appear to be unjust. In the opinion of all persons of sober judgment, there was nothing in the condition of affairs at this time so dangerous to the peace of the two countries as the presence of these American cruisers in the fishing waters.

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About the Author:

Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 - April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. 'The Great War Syndicate' proposes a small war between the USA and UK over fishing rights off the Canadian coast and is interesting not only because of the innovative weaponry used by the USA but more by the fact that the US Government out-sources the war to a private 'Syndicate' (group of Capitalists) who are then paid on a sliding scale, by the speed at which they successfully conclude the war. End it faster, get paid more!

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1421847256
• ISBN 13: 9781421847252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: 1stworld Library