At the Twelfth Hour - Altsheler, Joseph A.
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Joseph A. Altsheler was probably the most popular American author of boys' fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Although his peak of popularity is past, his novels are frequently listed on ebay and find a ready audience. New printings of his most popular novels are still being issued.

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Joseph A. Altsheler was probably the most popular American author of boys' fiction in the first half of the twentieth century. Although his peak of popularity is past, his novels are frequently listed on ebay and find a ready audience. New printings of his most popular novels are still being issued.
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Autorenporträt
Joseph A. Altsheler was born on April 29, 1862, in Three Springs, Hart County, Kentucky, to Joseph and Louise Altsheler. He was a newspaper reporter, editor, and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He wrote fifty novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Seven of his novels were in sequence. He worked as an editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1885. In 1892, he started to work for New York World and then as the editor of the World's tri-weekly magazine. He wrote children's stories due to a lack of suitable stories. On May 30, 1880, Altsheler married Sarah Boles and had a son named Sidney. In 1914, during World War I Altsheler and his family were in Germany and they were forced to remain there. Altsheler died at the age of 57, on June 5, 1919, in New York. His wife, Sarah Boles died after 30 years. Their bodies are buried at the Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Although each of the thirty-two novels constitutes an independent story, Altsheler suggested reading in sequence for each series (that is, he numbered the volumes). You can read the remaining eighteen novels in any order.
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The nine stories in this collection are considered to be the author's best short fiction...If you enjoy Altsheler's historical novels you will enjoy these short stories. If you've never read Altsheler consider this a sampler that introduces his work. Dime Novel Round-Up, October 2008 Interviewer: What do you read nowadays, when pleasure dictates? Bellow: Well, I did a strange thing. I went to the Brookline Library and looked up a writer named Altsheler. Altsheler was a writer of the boys books that I liked when I was a kid in Chicago...I went through the entire shelf. He wrote about the frontier and the struggles with the Indians. He seems to have known a lot about the Iroquois - he even knew their language it turns out. Marvelous writer. I ordered up a lot of them from libraries all over the area. The latest editions of the books are around 1929 or so ... In the late 20's I was reading them- Interviewer: What's that like? Bellow: Well, of course they're foolish to read now. But I can see why they were terribly attractive. They were about freedom, strength, ingenuity, patience, learning the lore of the forests, going it alone with only your gun, a bow and arrow, or a knife, a few fishhooks in your pocket, escaping from terrible dangers... shades of Fenimore Cooper. I read these books when I'm in the pits, when I can read nothing else. -- Sven Birkerts, A Conversation with Saul Bellow, pp. 1-10, From the 1997 issue of the literary Magazine AGNI, published at Boston University Interviewer: What do you read nowadays, when pleasure dictates? Bellow: Well, I did a strange thing. I went to the Brookline Library and looked up a writer named Altsheler. Altsheler was a writer of the boys books that I liked when I was a kid in Chicago...I went through the entire shelf. He wrote about the frontier and the struggles with the Indians. He seems to have known a lot about the Iroquois - he even knew their language it turns out. Marvelous writer. I ordered up a lot of them from libraries all over the area. The latest editions of the books are around 1929 or so ... In the late 20's I was reading them- Interviewer: What's that like? Bellow: Well, of course they're foolish to read now. But I can see why they were terribly attractive. They were about freedom, strength, ingenuity, patience, learning the lore of the forests, going it alone with only your gun, a bow and arrow, or a knife, a few fishhooks in your pocket, escaping from terrible dangers... shades of Fenimore Cooper. I read these books when I'm in the pits, when I can read nothing else. -- Sven Birkerts, "A Conversation with Saul Bellow," pp. 1-10, From the 1997 issue of the literary Magazine AGNI, published at Boston University…mehr