Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 4 : The Complete Short Stories

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

ISBN 10: 0996639462 / ISBN 13: 9780996639460

Published by Logosophia Nov 2017, 2017

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Neuware - Fitz Hugh Ludlow was prolific in his short career and covered a wide range. His humorous fiction was set in the daily life of New York City's upper middle class and he produced several tales of the weird. His most successful stories were based on incidents from his own life, including his experiences on the Overland Stage to California in 1863.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Volume 4 : The Complete Short Stories
• Publisher: Logosophia Nov 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0996639462
• ISBN 13: 9780996639460
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 56D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 56 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1488 grams

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Synopsis

Fiction. Fitz Hugh Ludlow's short stories are collected here for the first time. He burst on the literary scene in 1857 with the unlikely best seller The Hasheesh Eater. Written when he was just 20 years old, the book swept him into a career as a prolific novelist, short story author, arts critic, travel writer, journalist and editor. His friends and colleagues ranged from Walt Whitman to Brigham Young to Mark Twain. The material published in Ludlow's COLLECTED WORKS displays a depth of observation, a breadth of erudition and an appetite for extreme experience applied to the emerging modern American nation. The Heart of the Continent, published in 1870, bookended his brief but prolific 13-year career. Though famous for his non-fiction explorations, Ludlow's bread and butter as a full-time professional writer was the short story. As this volume testifies, he was prolific in his short, fourteen-year career and covered a wide range. His humorous light fiction was set in the daily life of New York City's upper middle class. He produced several Poe-influenced tales of the weird. And he was most successful when basing stories on emotional incidents from his own life, including tales satirizing religious squabbles (informed by his upbringing by a born-again, Abolitionist preacher), tales of love lost from among his own family's disappointments, and stories turning on his experiences on the Overland Stage to California in 1863.

About the Author

Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1836-1870) was an American writer of travelogues, short stories, novels, art criticism, science and drug literature related to hashish and opium cures. He is mostly known for THE HASHEESH EATER and Across the Continent, his description of and Overland Stage journey with the painter Albert Bierstadt. His friends and acquaintances ranged from Mark Twain to Brigham Young to Walt Whitman, and he was an integral part of the creation of the Bohemian scene in New York City.