Books with author Albion Winegar Tourge?e

This novel was initially printed in 1880 anonymously as A Fool's Errand, by ‘One of the Fools.’ (Albion Winegar Tourgée, an Ohio native of French Huguenot descent.) A blend of political commentary intertwined around a plot including murder, mystery, and romance, the book relies upon the author’s experiences in the former Confederate state of North Carolina during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period for much of its substance. Particularly poignant is the author's revelation of the development and power of the Ku Klux Klan. Going south with high hopes of effecting political and social reform, the protagonist becomes disheartened with the slow-moving machinery of change in the South. A thought-provoking study into one of the most challenging periods of the Unites States' progressive quest for equality for all its citizens.

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From an ancient Egyptian Papyrus-R oll, recently discovered. It came to pass that when Pharaoh had made an end of giving commandment that the children of Israel should deliver the daily tale of bricks, but should not be furnished with an} straw wherewith to make them, but should instead go into the fields and gather such stubble as might be left therein, thatN eoncapos, the kings jester, laughed. And when he was asked whereat he lausfhed, he answered. At the kings order. And thereupon he laughed the more. Then wasP haraoh, the king, exceeding wroth, and he gave commandment that an owl be given toN eoncapos, the kings jester, and that he be set forth without the gate of the kings palace, and that he be forbidden to return, or to speak to any in all the land, save onl}- unto the owl which had been given him, until such time as the bird should answer and tell him what he should sav. Then they that stood about the king, and all who sawN eoncapos, cried out, What a fools errand is this !S othat the saying remains even unto this dav. Nevertheless, upon the next day came Neoncapos again into the presence of Pharaoh, the king.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at

Albion Winegar Tourgee (1838-1905), also wrote under the pseudonym Henry Churton, was an American soldier, Radical Republican, lawyer, judge, novelist, and diplomat. A pioneer civil rights activist, he founded the National Citizens' Rights Association and litigated for the plaintiff Homer Plessy in the famous segregation case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, in April 1861 he enlisted in the 27th New York Infantry. In 1863, Tourgee was captured at the Battle of Stones River and was held for six months as a prisoner-of-war in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, before his release and parole. After the war, Tourgee established himself as a lawyer, farmer, and editor in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he and his wife moved so he could live in a warmer climate better suited to his war injuries. In 1881, he moved to Mayville, New York, near the Chautauqua Institution, and made his living as writer and editor of the literary weekly Our Continent until it failed in 1884. His works include: 'Toinette (also titled: A Royal Gentleman) (1874), Figs and Thistles (1879) and Bricks Without Straw (1880).

Gentlemex, Your demand that I should write a Preface to the book you have printed seems to me utterly preposterous. It is like a man introducing himself, always an awkward, and generally a useless piece of business. What is the use of the prologue to the epic coming on, anyhow, unless it be a sort of advertisement? and in that case you ought to write it. Whoever does that should be Wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a sort of wit. That is not the kind of Fool I am. All such work I delegate to you, and hereby authorize and empower you to say what you please of what I have written, only begging you keep in mind one clear distinction. There are two kinds of Fools. The real Fool is the most sincere of mortals: the Court Fool and his kind the trifling, jesting buffoon but simulate the family virtue, and steal the family name, for sordid purposes. The life of the Fool proper is full of the poetry of faith. He may run after a will-o -the-wisp, while the Wise deride; but to him it is a veritable star of hope. He differs from his fellow-mortals chiefly in this, that he sees or believes what they do not, and consequently undertakes what they never attempt. If he succeed in his endeavor, the world stops laughing, and calls him a Genius: if he fail, it laughs the more, and derides his undertaking as A Fool s Erraxd. So the same individual is often both fool and genius, a fool all his life and a genius after his death, or a fool to one century and a genius to the next, or a fool at home and a prodigy abroad.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings.