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Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913The Committee are indebted to numerous Borrovians for the loan of Illustrations and Contributions of literary items to the text, to Miss C. M. Nichols, R.E., for her charming Pen Pictures of nooks and...

Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)p. iiOf the letters which are contained in the present volume, the first eighty-five were in the possession of the late Mr. George Bentley, who took great interest in their publication in The Temple Bar Magazine, and...

Figures of Several CenturiesThe Confessions of St. Augustine are the first autobiography, and they have this to distinguish them from all other autobiographies, that they are addressed directly to God. Rousseau's unburdening of himself is the last, most effectual manifestation of that nervous, defiant...

Les Contemporains, 2ème Série - Etudes et Portraits LittérairesDes vers d'une splendeur prcise, une srnit imperturbable, voil ce qui frappe tout d'abord chez M. Leconte de Lisle. Au fond, il y a autre chose que nous verrons; mais cela est cach et ne se...

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological OrderThe correspondence of Cicero, as preserved for us by his freedman Tiro, does not open till the thirty-ninth year of the orator's life, and is so strictly contemporary, dealing so exclusively...

Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2I have been here some five weeks: but before my Letter reaches you shall probably have slid back into the Country somewhere. This is my old Lodging, but new numbered. I have been almost alone here:...

Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1After Mr. FitzGeralds death in June 1883 a small tin box addressed to me was found by his executors, containing among other things corrected copies of his printed works, and the following letter, which must have...

Benjamin Constant Tout en ne m'intressant qu' moi, je m'intressais faiblement moi-mme. Je portais au fond de mon cur un besoin de sensibilit dont je ne m'apercevais pas, mais qui, ne trouvant point se satisfaire, me dtachait successivement de tous les objets qui, tour...

The Unruly Sprite: A Partial Fairy TaleThe merit of his books lies beyond the horizon of this tale. No doubt some of them were good, and some of them were bad, and some were merely popular. But he was all the time trying to...

Chapters from My AutobiographyI intend that this autobiography shall become a model for all future autobiographies when it is published, after my death, and I also intend that it shall be read and admired a good many centuries because of its form and methoda...

Essays on Scandinavian LiteratureSome twenty years ago the ambition seized me to write a History of Scandinavian Literature. I scarcely realized then what an enormous amount of reading would be required to equip me for this task. My studies naturally led me much beyond...

The Youth of Goethe"Generally speaking," Goethe has himself said, "the most important period in the life of an individual is that of his developmentthe period which, in my case, breaks off with the detailed narrative of Dichtung und Wahrheit." In reality, as we know,...

Chapters from My Autobiography ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 19682 Author: Twain, Mark Release Date: Nov 14, 2006 Format: eBook Language: English

Les contemporains, première série - Études et portraits littéraires Premire srie 1886 Voici quelques-uns des articles que j'ai fait paratre dans la Revue bleue. Je ne pense pas qu'il s'en dgage encore ni une doctrine littraire, ni une philosophie, ni une vue d'ensemble sur...

Charlotte Brontë and Her CircleIt is claimed for the following book of some five hundred pages that the larger part of it is an addition of entirely new material to the romantic story of the Bronts. For this result, but very small credit is...

Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series"Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom." So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who have earned the world's gratitude by this ministration he must be accorded a conspicuous place. If, in...

Recollections of the late William Beckford - of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, BathThe Manuscript of the following Letters, written by my Father, has been in my possession fifty years. He intended to publish it at the time of Mr. Beckfords death, in 1844, but...

Hugh: Memoirs of a Brother[Pg 1] How loudly and boisterously the wind roared to-day across the low-hung, cloud-smeared sky, driving the broken rack before it, warm and wet out of the south! What a wintry landscape! leafless trees bending beneath the onset of the...

Prosper Mérimée - Elämäkerta ja teokset kirjallisuushistorialliselta kannaltaValitessani vitskirjani esineeksi Prosper Mrimen, en suinkaan salannut itseltni niit moninaisia vaikeuksia, joita meiklisiss oloissa tyskentelevll tutkijalla helposti ksitettvist syist on edessn, jos tahtoo saada aikaan edes osapuillekaan tyydyttv monografiiaa hnest. Tiesin kyll, ettei hnest ainakaan minun...

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