A complete issue · 4 pages · 1900
The Argosy, Volume LXX
A complete, restored issue of Pulp Fiction from 1900 — all 4 pages of painted-cover fiction magazines that launched science fiction, horror, and hardboiled crime, free to page through at ComicBooks.com.
About this issue
This 1900 volume of The Argosy (January-April) contains a diverse mix of fiction, poetry, and essays. The serialized novel The Warden of the Marches by Sydney C. Grier runs across eight chapters with titles like "The Coming of Queen Mab" and "Witness for the Prosecution." Reversions by John Ayscough appears as an eighteen-chapter serial. Fiction includes romantic and dramatic stories—A Woman of To-Day by Jessie E. English, The Island of Love by Garnet Smith, The Crown of Love by Ernest Hill, Joyce Arundell by Arthur Pasmore, and The Well of Wailing by Gerald Yeo. Nonfiction essays cover diverse subjects: travel letters from the North by Charles W. Wood, Oxford colleges by various authors, literary associations by J. Cuthbert Hadden, and articles on topics including a medieval bill of fare and the evolution of the machine gun. Poetry contributors include Laurence Binyon and C. E. Meetkerke. Stories set abroad include "An Armenian Wedding" and pieces on Samoa and Africa.
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