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The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the SecondThe Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the SecondChapter: XXXII., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV., XXXVI., XXXVII., XXXVIII., XXXIX., XL., XLI., XLII., XLIII., XLIV., XLV., XLVI., XLVII., XLVIII., XLIX., L., LI., LII., LIII., LIV., LV., LVI., LVII., LVIII., LIX., LX., LXI., LXII., LXIII., LXIV., LXV., PIETRO...
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My First Book:My First Book: - the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli,...
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Helena Brett's CareerHelena Brett's Career In these thin-skinned days when the words libel and traitor drift on every breeze, it may be "wise" (I am told at the last), to make it plain that my Author, Publisher, and Artist do not represent real people! So be...
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Death of a B.E.MDeath of a B.E.M.The artist and the writer sat staring at each other in wordless misery, their coffee untasted and their spirits at low ebb. Up above, in the beehive that was the publishing house which gave them their livelihood, the word had gone...
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The Middle YearsThe Middle YearsThe following pages represent all that Henry James lived to write of a volume of autobiographical reminiscences to which he had given the name of one of his own short stories, The Middle Years. It was designed to follow on Notes of...
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Famous Scots Series, 1Thomas CarlyleOf the writing of books on Carlyle there is no end. Why, then, it may pertinently be asked, add another stone to the Carlylean cairn? The reply is obvious. In a series dealing with famous Scotsmen, Carlyle has a rightful claim to a...
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Reminiscences, 1819-1899Reminiscences, 1819-1899Julia Ward Howe. FROM SUNSET RIDGE: Poems Old and New. 12mo, $1.50. REMINISCENCES. With many Portraits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $2.50. IS POLITE SOCIETY POLITE? and other Essays. With a Portrait of Mrs. Howe. Square 8vo, $1.50. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. Boston...
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Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)The present volume bears the name of Margaret Fuller simply, because it is by this name that its subject is most widely known and best remembered. Another name, indeed, became hers by marriage; but this later style and title were borne...
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Methods of AuthorsMethods of AuthorsWhen I began to gather the material for this volume I was quite doubtful as to whether the public would be interested in a work of this kind or not. As my labor progressed, however, it became evident that not only the...
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Julio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço BiographicoJulio Diniz (Joaquim Guilherme Gomes Coelho) Esboço BiographicoAo cmoro do athleta, que cahiu fulminado pela morte, no deixaro d'ir, em piedosa romagem, com as flores da saudade, os que mais d'uma vez lhe viram lampejar as armas impollutas ao sol da gloria litteraria. um...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 24In the two years and odd months since his return from California, Stevenson had made no solid gain of health. His winters, and especially his second winter, at Davos had seemed to do him...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18The following chapters are selected from a series which was first published partially in Black and White (February to December 1891), and fully in the New York Sun during the same period. The voyages...
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Home Life of Great AuthorsHome Life of Great Authors[Pg 5] The author of these sketches desires to say that they were written, not for the special student of literary biography, who is already familiar with the facts here given, but rather for those busy people who have little...
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George BorrowGeorge Borrow - Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903It is a singular coincidence, perhaps, that during one and the same summer we should be celebrating centenaries of Samuel Pepys and George Borrow. Pepys died in the early summer of 1703; Borrow was born in...
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Calamities and Quarrels of AuthorsCalamities and Quarrels of AuthorsSuch a superiority do the pursuits of Literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits the pre-eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions.Hume. The Calamities...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25Returning from Sydney at the end of October 1890, Stevenson and his wife at once took up their abode in the wooden four-roomed cottage, or rough barrack, as he calls it, which had been...
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Alexandre HerculanoAlexandre HerculanoUm paladino illuminado e moo, intemerato no ardor da juventude e na exaltao da crena que nem o martyrio lograria dominar ou perverter, sonhou a redempo da patria desolada pelas guerras, pela fome, pela oppresso de tyrannias vidas e corruptas, por hypocrisias sordidas...
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Books and AuthorsBooks and Authors - Curious Facts and Characteristic SketchesThis collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and memorabilia generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of Books and Authors, is not presented as complete, nor even as containing all the choice material of its...
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SultSult Spelling. In this first edition of Sult, old spelling rules were applied which look quite different from modern written Norwegian (bokml). In addition, the letters and where set as Aa and aa, respectively. Since many other Norwegian books printed at this time used...
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Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 77Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleThe history of the French Revolution in England begins with a sermon and ends with a poem. Between that famous discourse by Dr. Richard Price on the love of our country, delivered in the first excitement that followed the fall...
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