Ernest Poole

Ernest Poole
Ernest Poole was an American novelist and journalist, best known for his 1917 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "His Family." Born in 1880, Poole was also a prominent figure in early 20th-century social reform movements and a supporter of labor rights. His novel "The Harbor" (1915) reflected his concerns about industrialization and the lives of working-class Americans. Poole's works were deeply influenced by his experiences as a war correspondent and his observations of social and political change during his time.

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The Harbor

The Harbor

by: Ernest Poole
CHAPTER I "You chump," I thought contemptuously. I was seven years old at the time, and the gentleman to whom I referred was Henry Ward Beecher. What it was that aroused my contempt for the man will be more fully understood if I tell first of the grudge that I bore him. I was sitting in my mother's pew in the old church in Brooklyn. I was altogether too small for the pew, it was much too... more...
His Family

His Family

by: Ernest Poole
CHAPTER I He was thinking of the town he had known. Not of old New York—he had heard of that from old, old men when he himself had still been young and had smiled at their garrulity. He was thinking of a young New York, the mighty throbbing city to which he had come long ago as a lad from the New Hampshire mountains. A place of turbulent thoroughfares, of shouting drivers, hurrying crowds, the crack... more...
His Second Wife

His Second Wife

by: Ernest Poole
CHAPTER I On a train speeding toward New York, in one of the parlour cars two young women sat facing each other, talking and smiling, deeply absorbed. They took little apparent notice of any one else in the car, but most of the people near them kept throwing curious glances their way. These glances differed vastly, as did the thoughts behind them. A tall, genial Westerner, who looked as though he had... more...