Bøker utgitt av David Arthur Walters

This book is for the reader who is tired of reading books or who does not have time to read them through and prefers a diverse magazine of unusual short stories he can read through at any time. The sane reader will be bemused by this melange haphazardly arranged by yours truly, the runaway author who endeavored to understand the world by writing himself to death at random. Articulate articles herein include Big Talkers Decapitated, Profiling Panhandlers, Speech by a Modern Day Frankenstein Monster , The Man Who Hates Everybody, This Gimmicky World, Mellow Hawaii, Take The Elevator to Love , Postmodern Dead Canard, What is My Fate? Alice Packer's Shadow, Life Goes On - A Toynbeean Meditation, Theresa's Pinata, Spinoza's God, Make a Clean Breasted Approach, Man With A Cross, Cape of Bad Storms or Good Hope, Hysterical Woman, Mister Clean, I Want My Mama, The Underbed, Ella Wilcox & Madame Blavatsky, Approaching the Dragon, The Grand Dragon, Muttering and Trivia, The Goddess Trivia, Our Lady Of The Plastic Rosary, Maybe This Time Is Different, The Moral Of The Story, Enlightened Atheists, All Hell Might Break Loose With Pleasure, Lone Wolfs Retire to Forests, The Last Days Last a Long Time, My Thoughts On Groups, The Story of My Subject, The First Time I Ran Away, Life On The Run, Like Father Like Son, My Father's Ashes

Sarah E. Walters' unusual book from a century ago reads better than a current novel, yet an appendix of newspaper articles from the period verifies that everything she says is true. Her story is that of an extraordinary ordinary woman with elementary schooling who married a man of her dreams, a doctor, no less, who, in reality, and despite his redeeming qualities, turned out to be an alcoholic, carouser and womanizer who disappeared until shortly before he died. She fought all along to save their marriage and support their children, cleaning floors, working for a restaurant chain and on steamboats, a dangerous occupation allowed to women in those days. She also fought city hall when her boy became addicted to heroin illegally peddled by the drug store, thanks to unethical officials. And for that she was thrown without a hearing into the infamous madhouse where she wrote her book, hoping all the while to go on a book tour to save others from suffering her similar ordeals, but she died while cleaning a floor at the height of the Spanish Influenza. Her book did not see the light of day until this day, and is offered by her great grandson with great respect for good women.