The Magpie's Nest

by Isabel Paterson

Publisher: New York J. Lane Co Publication date: 1917 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

150 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2009

About the author

Isabel Paterson (January 22, 1886, – January 10, 1961) was a Canadian-American journalist, novelist, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, who both acknowledged an intellectual debt to Paterson, she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism. Paterson's best-known work, her 1943 book The God of the Machine, a treatise on political philosophy, economics, and history, reached conclusions and espoused beliefs that many libertarians credit as a foundation of their philosophy. Her biographer Stephen D. Cox (2004) believes Paterson is the "earliest progenitor of libertarianism as we know it today." Ayn Rand wrote in a letter in the 1940s that The God of the Machine "does for capitalism what Das Kapital does for the Reds and what the Bible did for Christianity."

Reviews

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

What is a Magpie's nest? As the French people says, happiness is to be found in a Magpie's nest. Because the Magpie always build out of reach. And this was how (Hope) the heroine of this novel. A young lady eighteen years of age who was filled with dreams, and expectation in life. Who was ready to conquer the world.

Hope was full of life wanted to do everything in her young life....always weaving net and throwing it to the winds to snare love, but forever catches the wrong one, or its not meant to be. She had chosen to stand by herself, and had learned what it meant to dare tradition, and ended up in despair no matter what she does, life seems a bit harsh on her side.

She might fight to amend, but wanted to experience, and to perceive her blunder. Hope wants to live the best she can, even though she doesn't know what to do, yet she had so many mistake upon her judgement, but she goes on living. For Hope the earth was very good, and Paradise could wait its own.