Favorite (US) Book 1905-1909

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Part Two

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Edith Wharton- The House of Mirth (1905)	7
Ezra Pound- Personae (1909)	3
Jack London- White Fang (1906)	2
Upton Sinclair- The Jungle (1906)	2
Henry Adams- The Education of Henry Adams (1907)	2
William James- Pragmatism (1907)	1
Gertrude Stein- Three Lives (1909)	1
Jack London- Martin Eden (1909)	1
William James- The Pluralistic Universe (1909)	0
William James- The Meaning of Truth (1909)	0
Ezra Pound- A Lume Spento (1908)	0
Edith Wharton- The Hermit & the Wild Woman (1908)	0
O. Henry- The Voice of the City (1908)	0
George Santayana- The Life of Reason (1905)	0
Henry James- The American Scene (1907)	0
Mark Twain- The $30,000 Bequest (1906)	0
O. Henry- The Four Million (1906)	0

― mulla atari, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

boy, Edith Wharton in a landslide, although The Education of Henry Adams is required reading (a cynic embittered by his never having been asked by ANY president to follow in his illustrious forebears' footsteps), and James' The American Scene is as daft and frustrating as his novels.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 02:49 (seventeen years ago)

i've read none of these except "the jungle," so that i suppose.

what's "the $30,000 bequest"?

― J.D., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 03:45 (seventeen years ago)

WHITE FANG totally!!!

― max, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

Good heavens. I can't remember what's in that "Personae".

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 04:00 (seventeen years ago)

Voted for my second cousin, four times removed.

― M.V., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:17 (seventeen years ago)

Edith Wharton, all the way (though I think that Sinclair's The Jungle was much more important of a work, of course).

― MsLaura, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:50 (seventeen years ago)

The Jungle kind of SUX though

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:16 (seventeen years ago)

Yep, and that's why it's not my favorite for this time period (or any time period, really).

― MsLaura, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:17 (seventeen years ago)

Just hoping the Wharton vote doesn't get split, but I can picture House of Mirth winning easy style.

― ian, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:21 (seventeen years ago)

windsor mckay's little nemo comics from this period in a landslide

― remy bean, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

but white fang, failing that

― remy bean, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 06:22 (seventeen years ago)

i've never read white fang, but i imagine it being really awesome

― get bent, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 07:15 (seventeen years ago)

people who dislike jack london dislike reading, i think

― remy bean, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 07:16 (seventeen years ago)

I've only read The House of Mirth, so won't vote

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 14:42 (seventeen years ago)

I can't remember what's in that "Personae".

Don't quote me, but I think it was mostly his Arnaut Daniel slash trouvere adaptations. The Blast stuff, the Chinese stuff, the Homage to Sextus Propertius and the Mr. Nixon poems all came later.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:54 (seventeen years ago)

I voted Gertrude, even though I generally can't read her stuff due to stylistic issues (read: I gnash my teeth and hurl the book to the floor). Three Lives is an exception and I would rate it as the first modernist work by a USA author, which is something good and honorable imo.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:59 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Monday, 11 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Shit, missed this thread. Dithering over which Pound to vote.

― Noodle Vague, Monday, 11 February 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

a handsome top five!

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

except for Edith Wharton :/

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

Mark Twain- The $30,000 Bequest (1906)

Any of you read this?

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

except for Edith Wharton :/

snap!

Did you ever read "Beatrice Palmato," her story about being eaten out by her father?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

o_O

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:20 (seventeen years ago)

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i would ask how do you know it's her father since it's fiction, but nah, never mind.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:26 (seventeen years ago)

I just read it and a few comments about it, and yeah, I actually wouldn't have thought it was REALLY her father if I hadn't read the commentary first. He calls her "my own" and "my little girl," but...

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe what I read is an excerpt?

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 00:28 (seventeen years ago)

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