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Though hailed by Thomas Carlyle as "the writer's best book" [12] and despite its commercial success, initial critical reactions to The Conduct Of Life were mixed at best. The Knickerbocker praised it for its "healthy tone" and called it "the most practical of Mr. Emerson's works," [13] while The Atlantic Monthly attested that "literary ease and flexibility do not always advance with an author ...
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 novel by American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch, the novel was a landmark in the evolution of the western genre, as distinguished from earlier short stories and pulp dime novels.
Pages in category "1860 books" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... The Conduct of Life; E. Essays and Reviews; F. Flora Tasmaniae;
The penny dreadfuls were also challenged by book series such as The Penny Library of Famous Books launched in 1896 by George Newnes which he characterized as "penny delightfuls" intended to counter the pernicious effects of the penny dreadfuls, [24] and such as the Penny Popular Novels launched in 1896 by W. T. Stead. [25]
Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1896. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War. [1] Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860. [2]
It appears in book form in London around August 15. [8] c. September 3 – Charles Dickens burns most of his private papers at his home in Kent, Gads Hill Place, having taken up regular residence there this year. [9] December 1 – Charles Dickens's Bildungsroman Great Expectations begins serialization in All the Year Round. unknown dates
Pages in category "1860s books" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Gems of Divine Mysteries; M.
A dime Western is a modern term for Western-themed dime novels, which spanned the era of the 1860s–1900s.Most would hardly be recognizable as a modern western, having more in common with James Fennimore Cooper's Leatherstocking saga, but many of the standard elements originated here: a cool detached hero, a frontiersman (later a cowboy), a fragile heroine in danger of the despicable outlaw ...