A complete issue · 400 pages · 1865
The Argosy
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1865 — all 400 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
A complete issue · 400 pages · 1865
This volume of The Argosy (July-December 1888) is dominated by the serialized novel The Story of Charles Strange by Mrs. Henry Wood, author of East Lynne. In the featured chapters, protagonist Charles, a young lawyer aged twenty-five, faces romantic complications with Annabel Brightman, daughter of his deceased business partner. When Annabel's father was alive, he discouraged their courtship as premature; now he is dead and Mrs. Brightman opposes the match. Charles is simultaneously engulfed in professional crises: a missing will from client Sir Ralph Clavering has vanished from the office safe, and he learns from a newspaper report that the convict ship Vengeance carrying Tom Heriot has been wrecked with some convicts escaping. The issue features a second serialized novel, A Capriccio: A Love Story by Katherine Carr, along with numerous shorter fiction pieces, articles on salt production and tea planting, biographical essays on William Cowper, and poetry by E. Nesbit and others.
Each page has its own page — the cartoon, who’s in it, and what the satire means.