Recording Angel

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward

Authors: Edwin Arnold Brenholtz In Year : 1905

Book Language: English

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Dedication and Preface
On the Oppressor's Side Was Power
The End Is Not While We Can Say, 'This Is the End.'
The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strained
Till We Meet Again
There Are Swift Hours In Life
The Massive Gates Of Circumstance
He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last
The Best Laid Plans Of Mice and Men
Do Them - Or They'll Do You
It Is the Unexpected That Happens
But When To Mischief Mortals Bend Their Will
Beyond the Infinite and Boundless Reach Of Mercy
Why the World Are All Thinking About It
There Are Several Ways To Kill a Cat
A Consistent Liar Is the Devil Incarnate (Part 1)
A Consistent Liar Is the Devil Incarnate (Part 2)
I Cannot Tell What You and Other Men Think
It's An Ill Wind That Blows No One Any Good
The Devil Incarnate Would Still Be Partly Human
Life Is a Disease Of Which Sleep Relieves Us
Oh, What a Fall Was There, My Countrymen
For, Some Days Must Be Dark and Dreary
The Telling Of It All Lets In a Flood Of Light (Part 1)
The Telling Of It All Lets In a Flood Of Light (Part 2)
The Recording Angel Causes All the Trouble
Dust To Dust! Ashes To Ashes

"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The story's themes of economic inequality between producers and consumers, political collusion within the upper classes, and the loss of the middle class ring particularly true today, especially in a global context. Billed as a "romance of the future," the plot of this fictional account of class struggle between workingmen and trust magnates of the new industrial economy hinges on a unique electric machine, which did not exist in 1905, but is quite common today. Besides writing at least four books, the author was a prolific poet and frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review. He corresponded with a variety of personalities, including the poet Edwin Markham, labor leaders Theodore and Eugene Debs, controversial activist and minister George D. Herron, and writer Samuel Clemens. - Summary by Andru Bemis