For the story is not only a splendid bit of fiction, finely conceived and vividly wrought out, but it has the rare merit of appealing to the two classes that go so far towards making up the general reading public—those who, on the one hand, ar...
Prince Bonifacio (1864) is a bold conte philosophique, which sets out to mock politics in the scathing fashion of Voltaire and Jonathan Swift, mimicking the form of folktales, but substituting pseudoscientific speculation for magic, and adding an ele...
“Though 'The Steel Hammer,' the story to which 'For Fifteen Years' is the sequel, was a fascinating one, It was a comparatively tame prelude to one of the most powerful denouements possible to conceive. The plots and counterplots are worked out wit...