[PDF] The Scarlet Empire eBook

Author : David Maclean Parry
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780809323418

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Successful businessman David M. Parry wrote The Scarlet Empire in 1906, a time when dystopian and utopian novels were sufficiently popular in the United States and Great Britain that dozens were published in each country. Utopian fiction described perfect societies, usually socialistic and communitarian. Dystopian novels depicted degenerate societies, often occurring from the same approaches. In their introduction to this reprint, historians Jerome M. Clubb and Howard W. Allen argue that Parry's novel and others like it display the opinions, feelings, and reactions of different sects of society at the turn of the century. Rapid changes in the United States caused mixed emotions about the future of the country. Many novels like The Scarlet Empire were used to criticize current measures, investigate proposed reform, and show these proposals in either a negative or a positive light. One of the most popular utopian novels of the time, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, was written with the intention of promoting the reconciliation of equality and liberty. Bellamy's novel advocated a socialist government, a perfect utopian society with equality for men, women, and children, consolidated businesses, and strict government control. Clubb and Allen observe that these changes directly reflect reforms that were being proposed by the younger generation at the turn of the century. The Scarlet Empire is said to be a direct response to Looking Backward. Itis intended as a supplemental text in American history, American studies, and popular culture courses. Eight original illustrations by Hermann C. Wall enhance the text.

Author : David MacLean Parry
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781230277004

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI THE WEALTH OF THE ANCIENTS That day the doctor and I began a series of inspection tours, which, during the course of several weeks, took us over much of the country and greatly increased my knowledge of the people and their customs. I had one ulterior motive in these daily trips, and that, needless to say, was the finding of the institution in which the fair atavar was immured. The doctor sympathized with this aim, and, though we rarely spoke of it, he was as assiduous as myself in seeking out the prison-house. We were under the disadvantage of not daring to make inquiries as to the object of our search, for, had we done so, we must have aroused the suspicion of the inspectors. But as it was, my insatiate thirst for knowledge respecting the institutions we came across was looked on as a subtle tribute to the civilization of the times and resulted in the widest latitude being accorded me in carrying on any investigation I might see fit to make. Not a day passed in which we did not inspect at least half a dozen of the State's establishments; but travel in whatever direction we pleased it seemed impossible to find insane hospital No. 97. Every evening we trudged homeward to our dormitory, disappointed, only to take up the hunt with renewed hope the following day. It would be impossible to give an account of these many trips. As I write this I am impressed with the manifold phases of life, and what a monumental task it would be for any one to describe with reasonable thoroughness any system of social existence. Did I not shrink from attempting such a work, the limitations of the ordinary book would still force me to leave much unsaid. The student will, I feel, regard that which is omitted as being the more valuable, but by...

Author : Hanjiro Tsukioka
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0316354929

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Kotetsu and the rest of the Satsuma roshi band set out to protect the life of Lord Sakamoto who has been targeted for assassination. Turns out, though, that this isn't the easiest guy to defend! Can Sagara and his men stand against the bloodthirsty Shinsengumi and carve out a more just future for Japan...?

Author : David M. Parry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780265185711

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Excerpt from The Scarlet Empire Officer Michael Rafferty of the Broadway squad, who was having his day Off and who happened to be on the pier at the time, made a gallant and desperate effort to rescue the youth. It is regarded as remarkable that after he sank into the water his head did not reappear at the surface, and it is the theory of Offi cer Rafferty that the body must have been caught by a strong undercurrent. Inquiry at Precinct Sta tion no. 7 later disclosed that John Walker Of 407 East 38th Street is missing and there is evidence to show it was he who so successfully sought a watery grave. Walker was said by his landlady to be a rather quiet individual but with strong views as to the evils of the trusts and the hardships thrust upon the poor of this day by the money kings. It is supposed that he tired of life's struggle and sought release in death from the sufferings entailed by poverty. He had no known relatives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Hanjiro Tsukioka
Publisher : Yen Press LLC
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0316354902

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Kotetsu Miyasaka is a kendo prodigy. While his twin brother, Yayoi, practices the sport, though, he lacks his sibling's skill, enrolling in a different school to try and differentiate himself. When things go wrong at Yayoi's new school, though, Kotetsu finds himself caught up in a potentially life-or-death confrontation -- only to suddenly find himself swept back to Edo period Japan where the stakes are infinitely higher! Taking in by Souzou Sagara and his roshi band of samurai, Kotetsu must find a way to survive in the past and possibly help shape Japan's future!

Author : David Parry
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 38,36 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
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ISBN : 9781975976118

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Mr. Parry's book is the story of a young man who, having become impoverished by too close attention to socialist propaganda, attempts suicide by jumping off the long pier at Coney Island. He awakes to find himself in the mythical Atlantis. a land where pure social democracy rules. Absolute equality he finds to be the law among its inhabitants. No man, for example, can talk more than another, so-verbo-meters measuring the number of words are attached to each, and a thousand words is the day's allotment. No man shall have more to eat than another, else he would receive greater than his share from the common supply. No distinction is made between the sexes. An obvious play to feminine prejudice, almost worthy of Thomas Dixon and "The One Woman," is made when it is shown that all those possessing womanly grace and beauty are accounted "atavars" in Atlantis, imprisoned as a degenerate type, and if found "incurable" thrown to a sea monster. All men are debased to a dead level of stagnation instead of all being raised to the height of goodness and happiness. Work is a task to which men have to be driven by overseers; one-fourth of the total population is set to watch the other three-fourths. The unnamed hero of the book is taken under the tutelage of a doctor who turns out to be secretly an "atavar" and a hater of the system. It is not long before the new Atlantide is also rid of the last vestige of his socialist ideas, and together he and the doctor plot the fall of Atlantis. Meanwhile the hero meets a lovely "atavar," whom he calls Astr�a, .and straightway falls in love with her. He is sent to the Atlantian legislature, where he attains fame by introducing several equality bills, such as that food shall be chewed an equal number of times on both sides of the mouth and that no one shall take steps of more than ten inches. All the time he is planning his escape from the land where the state is supreme and does all of a man's thinking for him. The last straw is when Astr�a is to be given in marriage to a hideous dwarf who is the real "boss" of the democracy, and he to a toothless hag also of the "inner circle." He is discovered with Astraea and both are condemned to die. His and the doctor's preparations have ripened none too soon. They have discovered a sunken submarine which, under pretext of destroying the treasure of the ancients which he has maintained in the legislature constitutes a menace to the state as long as it lies in the Atlantian museum, he has loaded with jewels and gold. They have also mined the great central monument of Atlantis. erected to the Federation of Labor, which initiated social democracy. At the moment when he and Astr�a are to be thrown to the monster, the hero shoots with a pistol right and left among the astounded Atlantides. who have lost the art of firearms, the doctor blows up the monument and. after an exciting race for the submarine, the little party of "atavars" escapes. Their parting shot is a torpedo hurled at the sea monster, which shatters the wall protecting Atlantis from the sea and the social democracy is engulfed. Back in the land of individualism they "live happily forever after."... --Public Opinion, Vol. 40.