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Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris". He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term blurb.
Born in Boston, Burgess was "raised among staid, conservative New England gentry". He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in 1887. After graduation, Burgess fled conservative Boston for the livelier bohemia of San Francisco, where he took a job working as a draftsman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1891, he was hired by the University of California at Berkeley as an instructor of topographical drawing.
Short Poetry Collection 022 LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 022: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.
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LibriVox recording of More Goops and How Not to Be Them, by Gelett Burgess. Read by Mark F. Smith Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one's child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the Goops. With entertaining cartoons - cariacatures of misbehaving children - he described many different breaches of tact and good manners.Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which an unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way. Ahem! Well, perhaps very few people have succeeded in not acting Goop-like ...
Short Mystery Story Collection Vol. 001 (Audio Book) Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
SUBSCRIBE HERE http://goo.gl/OJrTHf TO OUR CHANNEL. FRESH CONTENT UPLOADED DAILY. Find the Woman Frank Gelett BURGESS (1886 - 1951) Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the secret loom of fate, weaving in and out through many-colored threads, until the pattern of the mystery is made clear. For the warp of his strange, adventurous career - love and beauty and diamonds. For the woof - some few cross currents of crime and misery. There, in brief, is the web of his drama. (From Prologue) Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers Language: English This book is in public domain. Thank...
LibriVox's Short Story 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a number of American women writers. Creative Commons license: CC0 1.0 Universal Image: http://archive.org/download/LibrivoxCdCoverArt32/SSC_056_1308.jpg Cover image by James Tissot (d. 1902). Copyright expired in US, Canada, EU, and all countries with author's life +70 years laws. Cover design by Janette Brown. This design is in the public domain.
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term blurb. Born in Boston, Burgess was "raised among staid, conservative New England gentry". He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a B.S. in 1887. After graduation, Burgess fled conservative Boston for the livelier bohemia of San Francisco, where he took a job working as a draftsman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. In 1891, he was hired by the University of California at Berkeley as ...
More videos ► http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user= The16thCavern Subtitles available. The Fanshawe Ghost by Frank Gelett Burgess (1886 - 1951). Read by Grant Hurlock. Audio courtesy of LibriVox. Many thanks to the reader and everyone involved! ♪Music at the end: "Easy Lemon" by Kevin MacLeod
The Ghost Extinguisher - by Gelett Burgess LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 4 A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the smell of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. Readers include: Peter Piazza Bellona Times flansburgh38 Donald Finch Tom Hackett Gregg Margarite Linda Ferguson Sean Michael Hogan Bernard Spiel James Christopher