Memories Of Many Men In Many Lands

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.

A superb fiction collection by the great Uruguayan writer: If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernández in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today. --Gabriel García Márquez

Excerpt from Shifting Scenes: Or Memories of Many Men in Many Lands Pass what is called a bad night; and nights which have passed lightly have been more delightful, if possible, than the dead-asleep ones, for then de lightful dreams, succeeded by quick remembrance, would flit through my brain. But on the occasion of the experiences I am about to relate the dream element appeared to be absent. I found myself suddenly wide awake after having slept for an hour, and although it could hardly be past midnight, and no light was in the room, I saw a little man in black, cross-legged and cross-armed, sitting at the foot of my bed. The exceeding friendliness Of his expression was the first thing that struck me. His eyes and mouth scintillated with kindliness; his face was sharp, furrowed, and intellectual. He looked like Voltaire with the added qualities of Charity and benevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Noted historian Christine DeLucia offers a major reconsideration of the violent seventeenth-century conflict in northeastern America known as King Philip’s War, providing an alternative to Pilgrim-centric narratives that have conventionally dominated the histories of colonial New England. DeLucia grounds her study of one of the most devastating conflicts between Native Americans and European settlers in early America in five specific places that were directly affected by the crisis, spanning the Northeast as well as the Atlantic world. She examines the war’s effects on the everyday lives and collective mentalities of the region’s diverse Native and Euro-American communities over the course of several centuries, focusing on persistent struggles over land and water, sovereignty, resistance, cultural memory, and intercultural interactions. An enlightening work that draws from oral traditions, archival traces, material and visual culture, archaeology, literature, and environmental studies, this study reassesses the nature and enduring legacies of a watershed historical event.

Excerpt from Memories of Many Men in Many Lands: An Autobiography This volume has been written in different lands during the last seven years, much of it in snatches of time caught between speaking engagements. The only comparatively free time I have been able to devote to it has been a month or six weeks in Honolulu in 1916, and nearly two months in Freiburg, Germany, in the spring of 1922. Even these months were frequently interrupted by unexpected calls for addresses and by demands for articles for different publications. I have had to rely for dates largely on my memory, supplemented by Mrs. Clark's, and by a few of her "Line-a-Day" books. This may have resulted in slight inaccuracies in dates of minor importance. Yet on the whole I think my readers may congratulate themselves on the fact that I have not kept a careful diary, lest this volume might have swelled to an inordinate size. Old Edmund Waller once wrote: "Poets lose half the praise they should have got; Were it but known what they discreetly blot." So do autobiographers. In their case the last line might be slightly amended to "Were it but known what they, perchance, forgot." My chief sins or chief virtues, as you may look at it, have been those of omission, for in spite of much forgetting, my embarrassment has been the embarrassment of riches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.