Aftermath: 119 books

This book contains the full text of the second editions of two of the author’s books: Advanced Topics In UNIX and Software Reuse: Methods, Models, Costs. Although the first edition of Advanced Topics In UNIX was originally published by John Wiley and Sons, and the first edition of Software...

This volume contains four novels and a travelogue by Emily Post, the author of the famous "Etiquette book."  The four novels included are:  "The Flight of a Moth," "Woven in the Tapestry,",  "The Title Market," and "The Eagle's Feather."  The travelogue is entitled “By Motor...

Christopher Morley showed an unusual talent for humorous writing in many different settings.  Here is an example. His description of a commencement address in the Garden of Eden, is both priceless and timeless. This volume contains the full text of the following manuscripts, as well...

Shakespeare: Death and Demons This slim volume, number 8 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains two complete works: “Elizabethan Demonology,“ by Thomas Alfred Spalding “Shakespeare’s Bones: The Proposal to Disinter Them,” by C. M. Ingleby

This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed. “A Warwickshire Lad,” by George Madden Martin “The People...

This book contains slave narratives from Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Reverend Noah Davis, Josiah Henson, James W. C. Pennington, John Thompson, and Henry Watson, all of whom had major connections to Maryland.   It also contains twenty-two additional slave narratives collected by...

This volume contains selected works from several poets that are available in the public domain.  All the poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for thieeir inclusion.  The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who...

Volumes I, II, and III of Baltimore: Its History and Its People were originally published in 1912 by the Lewis Historical Publishing Company of New York and Chicago as a collaboration of several historians, most notably Clayton Colman Hall.  The book is relevant today because of its unique views...

This volume, the third in AfterMath’s sports nostalgia series, contains three collections of essays on golf by P.A. Vaile, Horace G. Hutchinson, and Henry Leach.  The essays reflect their views of golf in both the United Kingdom and internationally in the early twentieth century.  While...

This volume contains the following works by Gertrude Stein: “Tender Buttons” “Three Lives:  Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha, and The Gentle Anna” “Geography and Plays” “Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein” Stein is the author of the phrase “A Rose is a Rose is a...

This volume, number 2 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains several fascinating writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who William Shakespeare was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays.  Included are:...

Emily Post was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 27, 1872 and died September 25, 1960.  In between, she, apparently had excellent manners.  A recent Internet search for her name turned up 153,000,000 hits.  She is, of course, most famous for her book ofter thought to have been...

You know Emily Post as the famous author of the equally famous book on etiquette.  But did you know that she was an accomplished writer in other genres, including novels and travelogs.  All of them are represented here. An Emily Post Reader includes the following complete works: Etiquette...

This volume contains the complete text of seven books. Six of them, Damn! A Book Of Calumny, A Book Of Prefaces, A Book Of Burlesques, The American Credo, In Defense Of Women, and Europe After 8:15 were written by H. L. Mencken.

A seventh book, The Antichrist, was written by F. W. Nietzsche...