What do you think?
Rate this book
The Cold Snap: 1898
'The Cold Snap' is a short story written by Edward Billamy. It follows the narrator, who finds himself stuck in frigid temperatures while passing a fortnight in his wife's family homestead in New England. The author of this story, Billamy, is best-remembered today for his utopian novel Looking Backward. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of numerous "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
26 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1898
1 person is currently reading
20 people want to read
About the author
Edward Bellamy
472 books94 followersEdward Bellamy, American writer and Utopian socialist, publicized his political views through
Looking Backward
, his popular novel of 1888.
People acclaimed Edward Bellamy, a Christian author.
Many Marxists of the time widely regarded and referenced his work of fiction.
It first succeeded behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur .
It inspired a less successful sequel, entitled Equality , more of a tract, and generally spurred movement in the United States and abroad. At one time, people even formed a party of Edward Bellamy in the Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...
People acclaimed Edward Bellamy, a Christian author.
Many Marxists of the time widely regarded and referenced his work of fiction.
It first succeeded behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur .
It inspired a less successful sequel, entitled Equality , more of a tract, and generally spurred movement in the United States and abroad. At one time, people even formed a party of Edward Bellamy in the Netherlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
September 20, 2014
In the extremes of winter and summer, when the weather is either
extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense
of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling
additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any
slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind
out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what
if it should?
Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own
endurance, the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to
cause a feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising
or falling mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by
sufferance it is that man exists at all on the earth is rather forcibly
borne in upon the mind at such times.
The spaces above and below zero
are indefinite....THEY ARE THEY ARE
extraordinarily cold or hot, I confess to experiencing a peculiar sense
of helplessness and vague uneasiness. I have a feeling that a trifling
additional rise or fall of temperature, such as might be caused by any
slight hitch in the machinery of the universe, would quite crowd mankind
out of existence. To be sure, the hitch never has occurred, but what
if it should?
Conscious that I have about reached the limit of my own
endurance, the thought of the bare contingency is unpleasant enough to
cause a feeling of relief, not altogether physical, when the rising
or falling mercury begins to turn. The consciousness how wholly by
sufferance it is that man exists at all on the earth is rather forcibly
borne in upon the mind at such times.
The spaces above and below zero
are indefinite....THEY ARE THEY ARE
November 17, 2018
Funny that I should go back into my Kindle library and pull off the shelf a book I downloaded years ago. Funny, most particularly, that it’s been in the 90s here where I live for the past several weeks - not to dwell upon heat indexes over 100 degrees
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews