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Ten Days in a Mad-house
- Author: Bly Nellie
- Genre: Journalists
Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book written by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly in 1887. The book comprised Bly's reportage for the New York World while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned insanity to investigate reports of brutality and neglect at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island. The book's graphic depiction of conditions at the asylum caused a sensation, brought Bly lasting fame and prompted a grand jury to launch its own investigation, with Bly assisting. The jury's report resulted in an $850,000 increase in the budget of the Department of Public Charities and Corrections.
Sanctuary
- Author: Wharton Edith
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
"It is good, ethically and artistically, to read and read again a book with such a lift."—New York Times"A striking little book, striking in its simplicity and penetration, its passion and restraint."—Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
- Author: Twain Mark
- Genre: Civil War
On the Decay of the Art of Lying is a short essay written by Mark Twain in 1885 for a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford, Connecticut. In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's 'most faithfull friend'. He concludes by insisting that: "the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."
Nellie Bly's Book
- Author: Bly Nellie
- Genre: Women
This is a true story of lady reporter Nellie Bly's race around the world in an attempted to match fictional journey in the Jules Verne book -Around the world in Eighty Days. Nellie Bly (May 5, 1864– January 27, 1922) was an American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for her record-breaking trip around the world.
Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson
- Author: Beatty William
- Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Sir William Beatty was a British surgeon who served in the Royal Navy. He is best known as the Ship's Surgeon on the HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, at which he witnessed the death of Admiral Horatio Nelson. This title is an account of that battle. When Nelson was wounded during the battle, Beatty did not administer treatment, claiming that he believed that the admiral was beyond treatment. The admiral had expressed the wish to be buried in native soil, rather than simply being thrown in the sea like other mariners of the time. Beatty had to think up a way of preserving the admiral's body, so that it wouldn't rot on the voyage back to Britain. Finally he decided to place Lord Nelson's corpse in a barrel of brandy to mummify it.