David Arthur Walters, Sarah E. Walters

The Seed That Fell On Rocky Ground (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Sarah E. Walters' unusual book from a century ago reads better than a current novel, yet an appendix of newspaper articles from the period verifies that everything she says is true. Her story is that of an extraordinary ordinary woman with elementary schooling who married a man of her dreams, a doctor, no less, who, in reality, and despite his redeeming qualities, turned out to be an alcoholic, carouser and womanizer who disappeared until shortly before he died. She fought all along to save their marriage and support their children, cleaning floors, working for a restaurant chain and on steamboats, a dangerous occupation allowed to women in those days. She also fought city hall when her boy became addicted to heroin illegally peddled by the drug store, thanks to unethical officials. And for that she was thrown without a hearing into the infamous madhouse where she wrote her book, hoping all the while to go on a book tour to save others from suffering her similar ordeals, but she died while cleaning a floor at the height of the Spanish Influenza. Her book did not see the light of day until this day, and is offered by her great grandson with great respect for good women.

Chapters include Prologue and Dedication, Putting First Things First, My New Castle Charmer, My Skating Lesson, Elopement & Philadelphia, Our First Baby & First Quarrel, Misfortune At The Brothel, I Was Afraid Of Him, Eddie Is Born & Teddy Rejects Him, Valentine Cruelty, Death Knell Prelude To Desertion, Pittsburgh And That Woman, My Own Attorney Molests Me, That Brazen Harlot Attacks Me Again, I Catch My Attorney With That Woman, Good People's Poison Is Bad People's Meat, I Take Work On The Steamboats, The River Gets Into The Blood, Steamboats Wrecked By Greed, I Swallowed A Bitter Pill, My Great Dishonor, The Infernal Liquor Traffick, My Brother And Husband Pass Away, False News And The Funeral, A Foolish Thing Well Done, A Barking Dog & The Brutish Alderman, The Tragic Death Of Stella Murray, We Take In Elizabeth And Mary. Charles Asher's Suicide. Mr. Hill Fights The Dens Of Iniquity, The Reverend Detective Got The Picture, The Poison Bottle, Don't Talk Loud At The Drugstore, I Am Called A Heroic Woman, The Pull Of Catholic Law Breakers, They Threw Me Down Courthouse Steps, The Gang's Horrible Infamy On Me, Brain Specialists Call Me Insane, She Said She Was Taking Me Home, Nurses Say Insanity Runs In The Family, Judges Dig Into Statute Books, I Want My Baby! I Want My Baby, Present-Day Hypocrites, Judge Haymaker Condemns Me To Hell, There Was No Billy Club On Me, Poor Creatures In Marshalsea, Judges Dare Not Buck The Gang, Good Judge Thomson Releases Me, My Letter To The Judge Got Me Freed, Our Great Big City Is An Awful Pity, Why Asses Have Ears, Difference Between Men And Animals, The Suffrage Movement Exposed, The Trial Of The Dope Sellers, The Fleming Druggists Appeal, Epitaph & Epilogue. Appendix - Notes And Press Reports.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: David Arthur Walters
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201872519
• Artikelnr.: 62745454

Autorenporträt

David Arthur Walters is an independent journalist who lives in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Florida. David Arthur Walters is a poor man's writer-wunderkind who takes on the philosophical big guns of our age with sleight-of-hand logic and epistemological flourishes worthy of Foucault. But don't let that fool you. In a pinch he can write a play based on La Dame aux camellias, no doubt inspired by Dumas, and render sidewalk chalk-art tres chic after Picasso. Baudelaire could easily have been his drinking buddy if we were to imagine time in reverse, which Mr. Walters compels us to consider through the Ouspenskian lens of Eternal Recurrence and other stuff worthy of a Dali painting a la melting clock faces. Herein lies the genius of David Arthur Walters, jack of all trades and master jester of Nan, that far-off land in which lived the holy fool of William Blake's prodigious imagination. Writer, dancer, word-artist, satirist, and clown, David Arthur Walters brings it all to the page, compelling us to wave our hand-fans in astonishment at the nerve of the man, the impropriety, the utter genius of his whackadoodle mind. May his works live on in the annals of Time! (Melina Costello, Author of Seeking the God of Ecstasy: A Spiritual Journey of Sexual Awakening, Tutti-Frutti Town: Blinky Blueberry Finds A Friend)