"They are not timeless, and were quickly overshadowed by more compelling contemporary entries in the fanciful-travel-stories-for-children genre, like A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and
The Wizard of Oz. Their author [is] lawyer Ingersoll Lockwood.... In these books, the young German protagonist, Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, better known as Baron Trump, travels around and under the globe with his dog Bulger, meeting residents of as-of-yet undiscovered lands before arriving back home at Castle Trump. Trump is precocious, restless, and prone to get in trouble, with a brain so big that his head has grown to twice the normal size—a fact that, as we have seen, he mentions often. No one tells Trump that his belief that he looks great in traditional Chinese garb—his uniform for both volumes—is unwarranted."
Politico reports, with reproductions from the book...
... a peek at what you could get lost in out on the internet...
As the internet dug into the digitized underworld of out-of-print novels, the plot seemed to thicken. What if the author possessed the technology to jump through history, instead of our president? What if Lockwood were a modern-day Nostradamus...
... and a secure, flat-footed return the banality of political opinion in the present day:
If anything, Lockwood’s works are disquieting because their mood of anxiety.... feels so familiar. You don’t need to believe in time travel to worry about that, though. Our own incarnation of Trump taught us that lesson all on his own.
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Interesting - there is quite a cottage industry of publishing out of copyright books on Amazon.
I recently bought a book on exploring Abyssinia (Ethiopia) written in 1904. For a buck. Hardcover copies started at $94.
I think this long tail publishing is really Bezos's big contribution to culture - save all books...
-XC
A pleasant good morning! I am surprised that the novel and its illustrations were not criticized for cultural appropriation - a German boy in Chinese dress. But all too soon and sadly, the boys who might have been inspired by these books set about an epic campaign of cultural depredation.
"Bulger" needs a trigger warning.
I note that the women of the story are as hot for the under-age Trump as contemporary school teachers for their male pupils. History rhymes.
Double vowels is a Dutch way of indicating a "long" vowel. The Germans don't do that.
And in the Scandinavian languages, "aa" is the old way of writing the vowel "å".
The Dutch have had at least one Admiral van Troomp, who was quite famous in his day.
Thus "twit" and "tweet," The Dutch would write "tweet" as "twiit."
Politico once more demonstrates its devotion to the left and TDS,
Connecticut Yankee written for children?!? Uneducated rabble! Poltroons!
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