THE ALMOSTS: A STUDY OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED — By Helen MacMurchy — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1920 — Feeblemindedness in Famous Literary Authors and Their Characters, Psychology, Shakespeare Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York (1920)
In very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight with minimal shelfwear. 178 pages. The pages are crisp and clean.
A study of some of the authors and characters found in famous literature: Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, Lytton, Reade, Hugo, MacDonald, Eliot, Conrad, Stevenson, Hawthorne, Rice, Wiggin, Greene, Mulder. Last chapter pleads for the welfare of the "feeble-minded" in the real world.
