Gouverneur Morris

Gouverneur Morris
Gouverneur Morris IV (1876–1953) was an American author known for his pulp novels and short stories in the early 20th century. He was a great-grandson of American Founding Father Gouverneur Morris and graduated from Yale University, where he contributed to The Yale Record. Morris's works were widely published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan and The Saturday Evening Post, and his novels were adapted into films, including "The Penalty" (1920) and "The Jungle Princess" (1936). His bibliography includes titles like "The Penalty" (1913) and "Tiger Island" (1934).

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THE SPREAD EAGLE In his extreme youth the adulation of all with whom he came in contact was not a cross to Fitzhugh Williams. It was the fear of expatriation that darkened his soul. From the age of five to the age of fourteen he was dragged about Europe by the hair of his head. I use his own subsequent expression. His father wanted him to be a good American; his mother wanted him to be a polite... more...

IT Prana Beach would be a part of the solid west coast if it wasn't for a half circle of the deadliest, double-damned, orchid-haunted black morass, with a solid wall of insects that bite, rising out of it. But the beach is good dry sand, and the wind keeps the bugs back in the swamp. Between the beach and the swamp is a strip of loam and jungle, where some niggers live and a god. I landed on Prana... more...

I It was on the way home from Sunday-school that Aladdin had enticed Margaret to the forbidden river. She was not sure that he knew how to row, for he was prone to exaggerate his prowess at this and that, and she went because of the fine defiance of it, and because Aladdin exercised an irresistible fascination. He it was who could whistle the most engagingly through his front teeth; and he it was, when... more...