Author of Audiobooks - Edward CARPENTER
Towards Democracy - Edward CARPENTER
Towards Democracy - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Poetry / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
βCivilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remainβthe sun smiles, knowing well its strength.β Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) wrote his prose poem, Towards Democracy, styled after Walt Whitmanβs Leaves of Grass, in a summer burst of creativity....
My Days and Dreams - Edward CARPENTER
My Days and Dreams - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Memoirs
Hard to imagine now, but there have been times and places where just wearing sandals could get you labeled as being in rebellion against established society. Two such places were Berkeley, California in the early 1960s and Millthorpe, England in the...
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society - Edward CARPENTER
Homogenic Love and Its Place in a Free Society - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This pamphlet by LGBT pioneer and philosopher Edward Carpenter was originally intended to form part of his work "Love's Coming of Age", but was removed following public discourse on the Oscar Wilde trials of 1895. It was subsequently published...
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women - Edward CARPENTER
The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Modern
Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequently utopian treatise on homosexuality that defies some of the period's more stultifying notions about human...
Days with Walt Whitman - Edward CARPENTER
Days with Walt Whitman - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Memoirs
"Days with Walt Whitman" is a contemplative summary of the life of Walt Whitman and the making of the poet, by one of his followers. Edward Carpenter collected a half dozen essays he had written about different aspects of the American poet's work...
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays - Edward CARPENTER
Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure, and Other Essays - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Modern
This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicted. Alongside this influential publication (originally published in 1889), are compiled other essays: Modern...
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Family & Relationships
"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs, however, of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following papers...