Not Dead Yet

Published originally in 1864 and taking place in the decades immediately preceding its publication date, Not Dead Yet makes claim to being a fictionalized account of real events, for which the author received permission from the primary participants in the events to tell their story.  In fact, the cover of this eBook is taken from a painting by the main hero of the novel, Edward Smith, proving at least that such a person existed and was an artist in the relevant era.  The story is of two brothers, alike in many ways, fast and loyal friends, who love each other but are diametrically opposite in moral character—one morally irreproachable in all he does, the other a scoundrel.

John Cordy Jeaffreson (January 14, 1831–February 2, 1901) was an English novelist and author of popular non-fiction (which doesn’t help with the question of whether this particular story is true).  He also spent periods teaching and as an inspector of historical documents.

Preparing old books for digital publication is a labor of love at Travelyn Publishing.  We hold our digital versions of public domain books up against any others with no fear of the comparison.  Our conversion work is meticulous, utilizing a process designed to eliminate errors, maximize reader enjoyment, and recreate as much as possible the atmosphere of the original book even as we are adding the navigation and formatting necessary for a good digital book.  While remaining faithful to a writer’s original words, and the spellings and usages of his era, we are not above correcting obvious mistakes.  If the printer became distracted after placing an ‘a’ at the end of a line and then placed another ‘a’ at the beginning of the next line (they used to do this stuff by hand you know!), what sort of mindless robots would allow that careless error to be preserved for all eternity in the digital version, too?  Not us.  That’s why we have the audacity to claim that our re-publications are often better than the originals.