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First published June 1, 1906
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Winston Churchill
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This is not the British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill. This is the American novelist, Winston Churchill.
Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While he would be most successful as a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.
His first novel was The Celebrity (1898). (Mr. Keegan's Elopement was published in 1896 within a magazine. In 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book.) Churchill's next novel—Richard Carvel (1899)—was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful.
Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists.
In 1899, Churchill moved to Cornish, New Hampshire. He became involved in politics and was elected to the state legislature in 1903 and 1905. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1906. In 1912, he was nominated as the Progressive candidate for governor but did not win the election. He did not again seek office. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work.
Sometime after this move, he took up watercolors, and also became known for his landscapes. Some of his works are in the collections of Cornish Colony Museum in Windsor, Vermont, Hood Museum of Art (part of Hopkins Center for the Arts Dartmouth College) in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire.
In 1919, Churchill decided to stop writing and withdrew from public life. As a result of this he was gradually forgotten by the public. In 1940, The Uncharted Way, his first book in 20 years, was published. The book examined Churchill's thoughts on religion. He did not seek to publicize the book and it received little attention. Shortly before his death he said, "It is very difficult now for me to think of myself as a writer of novels, as all that seems to belong to another life."
Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida in 1947. He is the great-grandfather of Albany, New York, journalist Chris Churchill.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston...]
Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding and Emma Bell (Blaine) Churchill. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where he graduated in 1894 and became an editor of the Army and Navy Journal. He resigned from the navy to pursue a writing career. While he would be most successful as a novelist, he was also a published poet and essayist.
His first novel was The Celebrity (1898). (Mr. Keegan's Elopement was published in 1896 within a magazine. In 1903 it was republished as an illustrated hardback book.) Churchill's next novel—Richard Carvel (1899)—was a phenomenon, selling as many as two million copies in a nation of only 76 million, and made Churchill rich. His next two novels, The Crisis (1901) and The Crossing (1904), were also very successful.
Churchill's early novels were historical but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political ideas into his novels. Churchill wrote in the naturalist style of literature, and some have called him the most influential of the American naturalists.
In 1899, Churchill moved to Cornish, New Hampshire. He became involved in politics and was elected to the state legislature in 1903 and 1905. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1906. In 1912, he was nominated as the Progressive candidate for governor but did not win the election. He did not again seek office. In 1917, he toured the battlefields of World War I and wrote about what he saw, his first non-fiction work.
Sometime after this move, he took up watercolors, and also became known for his landscapes. Some of his works are in the collections of Cornish Colony Museum in Windsor, Vermont, Hood Museum of Art (part of Hopkins Center for the Arts Dartmouth College) in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, New Hampshire.
In 1919, Churchill decided to stop writing and withdrew from public life. As a result of this he was gradually forgotten by the public. In 1940, The Uncharted Way, his first book in 20 years, was published. The book examined Churchill's thoughts on religion. He did not seek to publicize the book and it received little attention. Shortly before his death he said, "It is very difficult now for me to think of myself as a writer of novels, as all that seems to belong to another life."
Churchill died in Winter Park, Florida in 1947. He is the great-grandfather of Albany, New York, journalist Chris Churchill.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston...]
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February 8, 2011
Written by the American novelist Winston Churchill, not the British Prime Minister. This was written about 1905 and is is not in print, but if you can find a copy it well worth reading! Both the story and the writing are great! Really, Churchill is an under-appreciated novelist.
Funny, I was deciding between reading this novel and 'Machiavelli in Context' - - well given the political manipulations described in this post-Civil War historical novel, it could be described as Machiavelli in Practice.
There is an historical basis although the names of people and places have been changed.
Funny, I was deciding between reading this novel and 'Machiavelli in Context' - - well given the political manipulations described in this post-Civil War historical novel, it could be described as Machiavelli in Practice.
There is an historical basis although the names of people and places have been changed.
February 21, 2017
This is a horrible, melodramatic read, but remains one of the best purchases I have ever made for the following mischievous reason. A lot of my friends share my passion for World War II literature and history and idealize Winston S. Churchill's legacy. Watching one of them walk to my bookshelf, select this volume (I own a first edition), sit down to read, and then start frowning in perplexity never fails to amuse.
December 24, 2011
I read about 28% of it but couldn't force myself to read any more. And really, what's the point of reading if you have to force yourself to do it?
February 18, 2022
The plot wasn't anything special, but I enjoyed the descriptions of the countryside and also Jethro's political machinations.
November 9, 2013
I would give this 3.5 stars if I could. Enjoyable to read, it was nonetheless too long. The middle section lost my interest, and it took me longer than it should have to finish. The last 150 pages was better, and at least I found myself reading it to find out the ending rather than finish the book.
I liked that it is supposed to be historically accurate (the afterward explained the book's historical context), and it was interesting to read a romance of any sort that had only about four kisses in it.
This Winston Churchill writes well, and I have enjoyed each of the books of his I've read (The Crisis, Richard Carvel). This is the first one of his I've read that doesn't have the Civil War at its epicenter.
This one gives some insight into the role of the railroads in American culture and a little more into 19th century small town life in New England. But this novel gives us a great deal of insight into machine politics in an unnamed New England state in that century.
I liked that it is supposed to be historically accurate (the afterward explained the book's historical context), and it was interesting to read a romance of any sort that had only about four kisses in it.
This Winston Churchill writes well, and I have enjoyed each of the books of his I've read (The Crisis, Richard Carvel). This is the first one of his I've read that doesn't have the Civil War at its epicenter.
This one gives some insight into the role of the railroads in American culture and a little more into 19th century small town life in New England. But this novel gives us a great deal of insight into machine politics in an unnamed New England state in that century.
January 19, 2008
Very enjoyable.
September 2, 2011
From my father's New Hampshire bookshelf. good reading.
October 24, 2020
A fantastic tale of politics, family, and the lives of those in a small town in post-Civil War America. Entertaining and emotionally impactful throughout.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews