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Episodes Before Thirty
It traces the author’s formative years through hardship, wanderlust, and spiritual seeking, from failed ventures in Canada and moral conflict over running a Toronto saloon to poverty and fear in New York, set against an evangelical upbringing and a growing devotion to Nature and Eastern thought.
"Episodes before thirty" by Algernon Blackwood is a memoir. It traces the author’s formative years through hardship, wanderlust, and spiritual seeking, from failed ventures in Canada and moral conflict over running a Toronto saloon to poverty and fear in New York, set against an evangelical upbringing and a growing devotion to Nature and Eastern thought.
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A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. I see a room in a New York boarding-house. I can touch the wooden bed, the two gas-brackets beside the looking-glass, the white door of the cupboard, the iron “register” in the wall that let in heated air, the broken sofa. The view from the dirty windows towards the high roof of Tony Pastor’s music hall in 14th Street, with a side glimpse of the trees in Irving Place, show clearly. The rattle of the Broadway cable cars, the clang of their bells, still come to me through that stifling August air, when the shade thermometer stood at a hundred, with humidity somewhere about 95 per cent. Thoughts of the sea and mountains, vainly indulged within those walls, are easily remembered too.
Contents
- 01Chapter I
- 02Chapter II
- 03Chapter III
- 04Chapter IV
- 05Chapter V
- 06Chapter VI
- 07Chapter VII
- 08Chapter VIII
- 09Chapter IX
- 10Chapter X
- 11Chapter XI
- 12Chapter XII
- 13Chapter XIII
- 14Chapter XIV
- 15Chapter XV
- 16Chapter XVI
- 17Chapter XVII
- 18Chapter XVIII
- 19Chapter XIX
- 20Chapter XX
- 21Chapter XXI
- 22Chapter XXII
- 23Chapter XXIII
- 24Chapter XXIV
- 25Chapter XXV
- 26Chapter XXVI
- 27Chapter XXVII
- 28Chapter XXVIII
- 29Chapter XXIX
- 30Chapter XXX
- 31Chapter XXXI
- 32Chapter XXXII
- 33Index
- 34Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- Algernon Blackwood
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 295 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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