A complete issue · 4 pages · 1900
The Argosy, Volume LXXI
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1900 — all 4 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
About this issue
This bound volume of The Argosy (May-August 1900) contains the concluding chapters of Sydney C. Grier's illustrated serial "The Warden of the Marches," featuring a wounded hero and romantic entanglement across eight chapters. The issue includes diverse fiction: Stephen Crane's "Manacled," George Gissing's "The House of Cobwebs," Harold Bindloss's "The Secret of the Foss," and shorter stories by Arthur Moore, E. W. Rinder, and Ellen Ada Smith. Essays and biographical pieces cover literary figures (Andrew Lang on Grant Allen, Arthur Maquarie on Henry Lawson poet) and cultural topics (J. Cuthbert Hadden on Handel, Augustus Hare on the Oberammergau Passion-Play). The volume also includes travel writings on the Far East by I. Ranken, Oxford college descriptions, verse selections, and miscellaneous short fiction spanning romance, adventure, and domestic themes.
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