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Correspondance de Chateaubriand avec la marquise de V... - Un dernier amour de RenéDans un chteau des environs de Viviers, proprit sculaire de sa famille, demeurait, en l'anne 1827, une femme d'une sensibilit dlicate et de l'esprit le plus distingu, la marquise de V...

Richard Lovell Edgeworth: A Selection From His MemoirsSome years ago, I came across the Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth in a second-hand bookshop, and found it so full of interest and amusement, that I am tempted to draw the attention of other readers to...

Four American LeadersThe four essays in this volume were written for celebrations or commemorations in which several persons took part. Each of them is, therefore, only a partial presentation of the life and character of its subject. The delineation in every case is not...

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 2 (of 2) For he who sins a second time Wakes a dead soul to pain, And draws it from its spotted shroud, And makes it bleed again, And makes it bleed great gouts of blood, And...

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions. Volume 1 (of 2)I was advised on all hands not to write this book, and some English friends who have read it urge me not to publish it. "You will be accused of selecting the subject," they say,...

Literary Hearthstones of Dixie The fires still glow upon the hearthstones to which our southern writers in the olden days gave us friendly welcome. They are as bright to-day as when, "four feet on the fender," we talked with some gifted friend whose pen,...

Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling - Zweiter Theil I. Der Duckmuser 1. Der Duckmuser als Schulbube 2. Dorfgeschichten 3. Duckmusers Glcksstern erbleicht 4. Junges Glck und alter Hochmuth 5. Der Duckmuser wird Soldat, sucht und findet in der Kaserne Vorbilder 6. Die Kirchweihe 7....

Zuchthausgeschichten von einem ehemaligen Züchtling - Erster TheilI. Vorwort von Alban Stolz II. Meine Vorgeschichte III.Der Zuckerhannes 1. Kinder und Jugendleben 2. Im Thurm Die Geschichte des alten Mannes 3. Der Zuckerhannes kommt aus dem Thurme Fortsetzung und Schlu der Geschichte des alten Mannes...

Ten Years' Exile - Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.Subtitle: Memoirs of That Interesting Period...

Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of WomanIt has always appeared to me, that to give to the public some account of the life of a person of eminent merit deceased, is a duty incumbent on survivors. It seldom happens...

Fredrika RunebergKaitselmus johti niin ett meidn suuren kansallisrunoilijamme rinnalla oli nainen, joka on ansainnut Suomen naisten katoamattoman kiitollisuuden. Johan Ludvig Runeberg on runoilijana herttnyt henkiin Suomen kansassa selvsti tajutun isnmaanrakkauden. Hnen puolisonsa, Fredrika Runeberg, on ensimminen, joka meidn maassamme on julkisesti puhunut naisen puolesta...

Washington IrvingIt is over twenty years since the death of Washington Irving removed that personal presence which is always a powerful, and sometimes the sole, stimulus to the sale of an author's books, and which strongly affects the contemporary judgment of their merits. It...

Literary Character of Men of Genius - Drawn from Their Own Feelings and ConfessionsFor the fifth time I revise a subject which has occupied my inquiries from early life, with feelings still delightful, and an enthusiasm not wholly diminished. Had not the principle upon...

D'AlembertLeibniz, dit-on, ne faisait cas de la science que parce qu'elle lui donnait le droit d'tre cout quand il parlait de philosophie et de religion. L'ide certes est gnreuse et digne de son grand esprit, mais si tous ceux qui abordent ces hautes questions...

J. W. v. Goethe's BiographieJohann Wolfgang Goethe, spter in den Adelstand erhoben, war zu Frankfurt am Main den 28. August 1749 geboren. Sein Grovater, Friedrich Georg, war Gastgeber zum Weidenhof. Eine glnzendere Stellung behauptete sein Grovater mtterlicher Seite Johann Wolfgang Textor als Kaiserlicher Schulthei....

Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) - Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings Dr. Johnson was hailed the colossus of Literature by a generation who measured him against men of no common...

Friedrich v. Schiller's Biographie * * * * * Friedrich Schiller, mit seinen vollstndigen Vornamen Johann Christoph Friedrich, spter in den Adelstand erhoben, erblickte zu Marbach den 11. November 1759 das Licht der Welt, unter Verhltnissen, die der Entwicklung vorhandener Fhigkeiten und Geistesanlagen nicht...

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford On the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832, his entire literary remains were placed at the disposal of his son-in-law, Mr. John Gibson Lockhart. Among these remains were two volumes...

Uncle Titus and His Visit to the CountryThe daily promenaders who moved slowly back and forth every afternoon under the shade of the lindens on the eastern side of the pretty town of Karlsruhe were very much interested in the appearance of two persons...

Portraits littéraires, Tome IIICe volume, que j'intitule Derniers Portraits, non parce que j'ai dcid de n'en plus faire, mais parce qu'il se compose des dernires tudes de ce genre auxquelles j'ai pris plaisir avant Fvrier 1848, sert de complment aux six volumes de Portraits...