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Horace Walpole: A memoir - With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill PressThe Walpoles of Houghton.Horace Walpole born, 24 September, 1717.Lady Louisa Stuart's Story.Scattered Facts of his Boyhood.Minor Anecdotes.'La belle Jennings.'The Bugles.Interview with George I. before his Death.Portrait at this time.Goes...

The Three FatesJonah Wood was bitterly disappointed in his son. During five and twenty years he had looked in vain for the development of those qualities in George, which alone, in his opinion, could insure success. But though George could talk intelligently about the...

NälkäMakaan valveilla ullakkokamarissani ja kuulen kellon alapuolellani lyvn kuutta; oli jo hyvin valoisaa, ja ihmiset alkoivat liikuskella portaissa. Alhaalla oven vieress, miss huoneeni sein oli paperoitu vanhoilla "Morgenbladetin" numeroilla, oli sen saatoin aivan selvsti nhd majakanjohtajan julistus ja siit hiukan vasemmalla leipuri Fabian Olsenin...

Leopardi Il presente libriccino fu composto prima della ricorrenza del Centenario leopardiano e vide la luce durante quella memorabile celebrazione, cio mentre l'immensa miniera dello Zibaldone, per mezzo secolo rimasta ignorata o inaccessibile, si veniva appena schiudendo. Dopo che fu tutta aperta ed in...

Kuinka meistä tuli kirjailijoita: Suomalaisten kirjailijoiden nuoruudenmuistelmiaJuhani Aho: Hiukkanen Kalevalan runollisuudesta Selma Anttila: Kirjailijataipaleeltani Kaarlo Atra: Ensi alkeeni kirjallisella alalla Minna Canth: Kuinka meist tuli kirjailijoita Rafael Engelberg: Ensi yritykset Hilja Haahti: Pari muistelmaa Iivo Hrknen: Kuinka jouduin kynnkytn alalle Santeri Ivalo: Kuinka ja...

History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: - With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva, and of the Glaciers of Chamouni.Nothing can be more unpresuming than this little volume. It contains the...

The Autobiography of Goethe - Truth and Poetry: From My Own Life Goethe umgeben von Illustrationen seiner Dramen (Frankfurter Goethehaus, Freies Deutsches Hochstift) Frontispiece: Johan Wolfgang von Goethe par Eugne Delacroix (Source: Faust, tragdie de M. de Goethe, traduite en franais par M. Albert...

Boswell the BiographerThe responsibility for upwards of 300 pages in print is a burden which my unaccustomed conscience cannot easily bear, and by accepting it I lose for ever the unassailable dignity of private criticism. In these circumstances I approach my readers in an...

Victor Hugo1830!... Les gnrations actuelles doivent se figurer difficilement l'effervescence des esprits cette poque; il s'oprait un mouvement pareil celui de la Renaissance. Une sve de vie nouvelle circulait imptueusement. Tout germait, tout bourgeonnait, tout clatait la fois. Des parfums vertigineux se dgageaient des...

Tales from a Rolltop Desk I take the liberty of dedicating these little stories to you, with affection and respect. They have all grown, in one mood or another, out of the various life of Grub Street, suggested by adventures with publishers, booksellers, magazine...

The Mentor: American Pioneer Prose Writers, - Vol. 4, Num. 6, Serial No. 106, May 1, 1916What do we really know of themthese library gods of ours? We know them by name; their names are household words. We know them by fame; their fame...

The Mentor: American Novelists, Vol. 1, No. 25This group of distinguished novelists may be divided into four smaller groups, not only in time, but in selection and treatment of subjects. Mr. James and Mr. Howells are now the senior members of the literary fraternity...

Henry D. ThoreauWhen, in 1879, I was asked by my friend Charles Dudley Warner to write the biography of Thoreau which follows, I was by no means unprepared. I had known this man of genius for the last seven years of his too short...

Elijah Kellogg, the Man and His Work - Chapters from His Life and Selections from His WritingsThis book makes no pretence of expounding the doctrines of the theologian or analyzing the methods of the artist. It is simply a remembrancer of a quaint and...

IntentionsM. Charles Grolleau, auquel nous avons confi le soin d'crire l'tude que nous dsirions voir figurer en ce volume, a pieusement recueilli, parmi les notes que nous a laisses Rebell, plusieurs passages recopis par cet auteur qui les jugeait achevs. Je blme galement et...

Lettres à Mademoiselle de VollandVers 1753, Diderot tait enfin clbre. L'homme sans qualit qui faisait le bel esprit et trophe d'impit, dnonc par l'abb Pierre Hardy, cur de Saint-Mdard, le garon plein d'esprit mais extrmement dangereux qu'un exempt signalait au lieutenant de police Berryer[1],...

VisagesIls ne sont pas d'un critique. Le Critique a de lourdes responsabilits: il rend des arrts. Le bohmianisme de l'esprit lui est dfendu. Le portraitiste fait de la partialit son privilge, et presque son devoir: il n'annonce que des impressions. Il ne dclare point...

Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy"I wish the Kinlochleven navvies had been thrown into the loch. They would fain turn the Highlands into a cinderheap," said the late Andrew Lang, writing to me a few months before his death....

Anecdotes about Authors, and ArtistsTHIS 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 kind. The field from...

Kulkurielämää: NuoruudenmuistelmiaSaavuin Niagara Fallsiin "sivuovipullmannissa" eli tavallista puhetapaa kyttkseni tavaravaunussa. Avovaunua nimitetn, sivumennen sanoen, "gondoolaksi" korko toisella tavulla. Saavuin siis iltapivll ja astelin suoraa pt putouksille. Ja kun silmni sattuivat tuohon ryppyvien vetten nytelmn, olin hukassa. En saanut itseni siit nyst irti temmatuksi edes...