Thoughts of a fool
Thoughts of a Fool, published in Chicago in 1905 under the name Evelyn Gladys, is a book of short first-person essays by a woman who adopts the fool's license to say what respectable people will not. Beginning with a mock genealogy of ancestors who have always crucified rebels and then built temples to them, she goes on to success, democracy, the man to be, symbols and tags, occultism, free love, ostracism and the universal secret, writing in brief paragraphs that turn conventional wisdom inside out. The tone is skeptical, feminist and anti-clerical, with a strain of mysticism in the later chapters. Little is known about the author, and the book survives as a curiosity of the Chicago radical press. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Is Thoughts of a fool in the public domain?
Yes. Thoughts of a fool by Evelyn Gladys is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 3 h 06 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is Thoughts of a fool?
Thoughts of a fool by Evelyn Gladys is filed under "Essays & Letters" in the Vinteuil library.
