Books with author John Haywood

Excerpt from The Bread-Winners: A Social StudyThe Bread-winners, the only novel my father ever attempted, was written in 1882. It was first published anonymously in The Century Magazine in 1883-1884, and aroused a good deal of curious comment as to its authorship. It was issued in book form by Harper Brothers in 1883, and went through several editions.Although the work was generally attributed to my father, he never acknowledged it. This edition is the first which bears on its title-page the author's name.Though the author was writing for another gen cration of readers, civilization has not changed so much in thirty-odd years that the conditions de scribed have lost their contemporary interest.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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John Hay, Private Secretary to Abraham Lincoln, newspaper editor, Secretary of State for two Presidents and an Ambassador, published the Pike County Ballads in 1871. The ballads, known as "dialect poems" were widely circulated in his day, and after 40 years were reproduced with young artist N.C. Wyeth adding valuable illustrations. Although Mark Twain is credited with introducing an earthy vernacular to post-bellum American literature with "Huckleberry Finn," there is ample evidence that Twain was very much influenced by his friend John Hay, whose "Pike County Ballads" preceded Huck Finn by 14 years. Pike County Illinois following the Civil War proved to be fertile ground for John Hay's characterizations - Pike County, Illinois is just across the Mississippi from Hannibal, Missouri where Samuel Langhorne Clemens grew up. These dialect poems are a "must read" for everyone interested in post Civil War literature, and in the wit of that period. This edition contains introductory comments

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