Harold Frederic: 53 books

Frederic was born in Utica, New York, to Presbyterian parents. After his father was killed in a train accident when Frederic was 18 months old, the boy was raised primarily by his mother. He finished school at fifteen, and soon began work as a photographer. For four years he was a photographic touch-up...

Explore the diverse forces and factors that helped forge the American character is this gripping historical novel from Harold Frederic. Set in the mid-eighteenth century in the Mohawk Valley of upstate New York, In the Valley presents a compelling view of the various groups of immigrants, natives and other newcomers who were forced to find a way to live together amidst a rapidly changing culture.

In The Sixties written by Harold Frederic who was an American journalist and novelist.  This book was published in 1897. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the...

Explore an often-overlooked aspect of the American Civil War in this gripping historical novel from Harold Frederic. Protagonist Abner Beech, a farmer in upstate New York, is staunchly opposed to the war and insists that the deleterious battle must be ended at all costs -- even if that means striking...

"The Market-Place" throbs with the hum of life, and the wild, mad chorus of the market-place rises from its pages crescendo to a tremendous finale. To transfer the "city" to the printed page is a wonderful achievement. In "The Market-Place" his multitudinous, extravagant,...

This 1896 romance was termed "an exquisite London idyll" by Willa Cather. Originally the novel was published under the pseudonym of George Forth, perhaps because it eschewed the realism of Frederic's simultaneously published The Damnation of Theron Ware. Set in London, the characters of March Hares are...

Published in 1899, just after his unexpected death, The Market-Place became one of Frederic's most successful novels.  It offers psychological insight into its hero—the late-Victorian equivalent of Gordon Gekko—an amoral London businessman named Joel Thorpe, caring for only two things in the world:  money and power.  He prefers to hoard the former and spend the latter.   

With "March Hares" Mr. Frederic has written an original, witty, and delightful story. Mr. David Mosscrop is a young and erudite Scot, given to an indulgence in too much drink. One morning, in a melancholy and repentant mood, he is lounging on Westminster Bridge, when a young woman, with...

"The Copperhead" is a farmer in northern New York who sympathizes with the South in the anti-slavery struggle, and who in consequence is boycotted by his neighbors. He is driven from church, not allowed to sell his milk at the neighborhood creamery, and in a hundred ways ostracized and treated...

The most interesting political character of the ending 19th century was undoubtedly the young man who filled the throne of the German Empire. Americans are so used to seeing young men filling important positions and administering great trusts that the mere question of age seems less important than...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. No such throng had ever before been seen in the building during all its eight years of existence. People were wedged together most uncomfortably upon the seats; they stood packed in the aisles and overflowed the...

A candid inquiry into the intertwining of religious and sexual fervor, and a telling portrait of the United States at the end of the nineteenth century, this novel foreshadows the rise of naturalism in American literature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher...

It was on the night of my thirteenth birthday, I know, that the old farm-house was burned over our heads. By that reckoning I must have been six or seven when I went to live with Farmer Beech, because at the time he testified I had been with him half my life. Abner Beech had often been supervisor...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE battle was over, and the victor remained on the field— sitting alone with the hurly-burly of his thoughts.