Books with author Maurice J. Thompson

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This book contains a collection of powerful short stories concerning slavery in Oklahoma. Written post-emancipation in 1898, this fascinating book provides a haunting insight into the day-to-day lives of people in a pre-emancipation America. Stories contained within this collection are: Color-Line Jocundities, Ben and Judas, Hodson’s Hide-Out, Rudgis and Grim, A Race Romance, Dusky Genius, and The Balance of Power. This book has been elected for modern republication because of its historical and educational value, republished now in the hope that its messages and lessons can continue to be of value to generations to come. James Maurice Thompson (1844 - 1901) was an American novelist, best known for his works The Ocala Boy (1895), A Tallahassee Girl (1882) and A Fortnight of Folly (1888). This book is republished here complete with its original illustrations and a new introductory biography of the author

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Alice of Old Vincennes, By Maurice Thompson, Brand New Edition, James Maurice Thompson (September 9, 1844 – February 15, 1901) was an American novelist. Thompson was born in Fairfield, Indiana. Raised on a Georgia plantation, Thompson first pursued a career as a lawyer. In 1871 he opened a law practice with his brother, William Henry Thompson. He was drawn away from the field of law by the success of articles and short stories published in the New York Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, and Harper's Monthly. As a writer, Thompson became well known as a local colorist, his works ranging from local history to articles about archery. His first book, Hoosier Mosaics, published in 1875, was a collection of short stories illustrating the people and atmosphere of small Indiana towns. He followed it with a successful compilation of his published essays, The Witchery of Archery, which was well received for its wit and use of common language. At this same time, Thompson also published several collections of naturalistic poetry, though they weren't well received at the time. Thompson wrote the poem "To the South" that was reprinted in George Washington Cable's influential and controversial essay, "The Freedmen's Case in Equity" in 1885. This poem expressed Thompson's reaction to the freeing of the slaves, and implied that some other Southerners were not as angry about the overturning of that institution as Northerners presumed. Through the 1880s, Thompson moved into the realm of fiction. His early works featured the common thread of simple southern life, taken mostly from Thompson's childhood. With his 1886 semi-autobiographical novel, A Banker of Bankersville, he returned to his Indiana roots. Arguably his most successful and well-known novel came with 1900's Alice of Old Vincennes. The novel vividly depicted Indiana during the Revolutionary War. Thompson died shortly after its publication, on February 15, 1901, of pneumonia, aged 56.

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Excerpt from Alice of Old VincennesIt is not known just when Vincennes was first founded; but most historians make the probable date very early in the eighteenth century, somewhere be tween 1710 and 1730. In 1810 the Roussillon cherry tree was thought by a distinguished botanical letter writer to be at least fifty years old, which would make the date of its planting about 1760. Certainly as shown by the time-stained family records upon which this story of ours is based, it was a flourishing and wide-topped tree in early summer of 1778, its branches loaded to drooping with luscious fruit. 50 low did the dark red clusters hang at one point that a tall young girl standing on the ground easily reached the best ones and made her lips purple with their juice while she ate them.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.