Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.0
Word count
504K words
Chapters
51

Tags

English Originals General Biography Human GeographyPortrait GalleryLiterary GiantsBiographical SketchesIllustrated GuideTravel EssaysLife EssaysHometown of CelebritiesCultural ChangeCross-Cultural View

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 by Elbert HubbardAuthor: Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915,Language: English, Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections, Release Date: Dec 7, 2007

Editor's review

This is Volume 7 of Hubbard's Little Journeys series, a collection of early twentieth-century American essay-biographies. Taking visits to the homes of famous figures as its thread, it blends biography, travelogue, and personal commentary. The style is relaxed and somewhat didactic, apt to draw character and life philosophy from domestic details. For today's readers its value lies less in rigorous scholarship than in a now-vanished pleasure of writing: it seeks to move and to pronounce in aphorisms rather than to document. It suits casual reading, a piece or two at a time, for the rhythm of the old essay; it may also serve students of American popular publishing and the essay-biography form. Note that its facts and judgments carry the author's strong personal stance and the limits of his era, and it should not be taken as an authoritative biography.

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  1. Read piece by piece, one or two at a time, and jot down the author's central claims afterward
  2. Skim the contents, pick figures that interest you, then return for a full reading rather than plowing straight through
  3. Pause at aphoristic passages and consider how their stance differs from present-day views

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book a strict biography? No. It is closer to an essay collection built around visits to famous homes; the author uses lives as a springboard for personal commentary, valuing persuasion and philosophical insight over precise facts and dates. Read it as distinct from scholarly biography.
How difficult is the English? The original is early twentieth-century American prose, with long sentences, formal diction, and occasional aphorisms and allusions. Readers at college English level used to old-fashioned essays will find it accessible; beginners may read slowly piece by piece with a dictionary.
Do I need to start from Volume 1? Not at all. Volumes are arranged by figure or theme, and the pieces stand largely on their own. You can pick figures that interest you from Volume 7 without loss of understanding.

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About the author

Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 Author

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer. Specific details of his life and nationality are limited in publicly available sources, and the library holds 21 of his works. He is best known for the Little Journeys series, which visits the homes of great figures and offers biographical sketches and essays. Representative works in the library include volumes 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14 of that series, as well as Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8. These works focus on biography, thought, and historical anecdote, written in a clear, accessible style that combines biographical narrative with the appeal of an essay, suitable for general readers interested in Western cultural figures. Hubbard's writing is known for its brevity and epigrammatic expression, a quality also evident in his travel essays. This introduction is based only on library facts and verifiable public knowledge.