Nellie Bly: 10 books

        Could I pass a week in the insane ward at Blackwell's Island? I said I could and I would. And I did. —Nellie Bly   Ten Days in a Mad-House is the true account by female journalist Nellie Bly as she took...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Nellie Bly which are Ten Days in a Mad-House and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days....

Karpathos publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button.  All of our collections include a linked table of contents. Nellie Bly was a well known American journalist near the turn...

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO Nel 1887, la reporter Nellie Bly, fingendosi una rifugiata afflitta da paranoia, si fece rinchiudere nel manicomio dell’isola Blackwell, allo scopo di scoprire le condizioni di vita delle donne ricoverate. “Battevo i denti e tremavo, il corpo livido per il...

Due donne americane di fronte alla Grande Guerra europea: Edith Wharton, scrittrice già affermata che in quegli anni sta scrivendo l’Età dell’innocenza – sarà la prima donna a vincere il premio Pulitzer – e Nellie Bly, giornalista famosa, che nel 1890 aveva stupito il mondo circumnavigando...

A courageous female journalist’s classic exposé of the horrific treatment of the mentally ill in nineteenth-century America In 1887, Nellie Bly accepted an assignment from publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World and went undercover at the lunatic asylum on Blackwell Island, America’s...

The first edited volume of work by the legendary undercover journalist Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of the first and best female journalists in America and quickly became a national phenomenon in the late 1800s, with a board game based on her adventures and merchandise inspired...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Ten Days in a Mad-House is a book by newspaper reporter Nellie Bly. It was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World. Bly later compiled the articles into a book, which was published...

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, an American journalist. Bly was a famous reporter and a pioneer of investigative journalism. Bly wrote a popular memoir on her experience in taking a trip around the world in 1889 and 1890.

One wintry night I bade my few journalistic friends adieu, and, accompanied by my mother, started on my way to Mexico. Only a few months previous I had become a newspaper woman. I was too impatient to work along at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers, so I conceived the idea of going away as a correspondent.