Audiobooks Published 1900 onward The Recording Angel
The Recording Angel

The Recording Angel

by Edwin Arnold BRENHOLTZ (1859 - 1953)

"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intended to promote social reform or political revolution among the working classes. The story's themes of economic inequality between producers and consumers, political collusion within the upper classes, and the loss of the middle class ring particularly true today, especially in a global context. Billed as a "romance of the future," the plot of this fictional account of class struggle between workingmen and trust magnates of the new industrial economy hinges on a unique electric machine, which did not exist in 1905, but is quite common today. Besides writing at least four books, the author was a prolific poet and frequent contributor to the International Socialist Review. He corresponded with a variety of personalities, including the poet Edwin Markham, labor leaders Theodore and Eugene Debs, controversial activist and minister George D. Herron, and writer Samuel Clemens. - Summary by Andru Bemis


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The Telling Of It All Lets In a Flood Of Light (Part 2)

A Consistent Liar Is the Devil Incarnate (Part 1)

Beyond the Infinite and Boundless Reach Of Mercy

But When To Mischief Mortals Bend Their Will

Dedication and Preface

Do Them - Or They'll Do You

Dust To Dust! Ashes To Ashes

For, Some Days Must Be Dark and Dreary

He Laughs Best Who Laughs Last

I Cannot Tell What You and Other Men Think

It Is the Unexpected That Happens

It's An Ill Wind That Blows No One Any Good

Life Is a Disease Of Which Sleep Relieves Us

Oh, What a Fall Was There, My Countrymen

On the Oppressor's Side Was Power

The Best Laid Plans Of Mice and Men

The Devil Incarnate Would Still Be Partly Human

The End Is Not While We Can Say, 'This Is the End.'

The Massive Gates Of Circumstance

The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strained

The Recording Angel Causes All the Trouble

The Telling Of It All Lets In a Flood Of Light (Part 1)

There Are Several Ways To Kill a Cat

There Are Swift Hours In Life

Till We Meet Again

Why the World Are All Thinking About It