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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...

Hunger: Book One , . , - . , , , . , , , . : , , , , ; - , , -. , , -- [] . ; : - , . ; , , . [' 4] , -,...

Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series)It will be observed that the greater part of this little book has been taken in one form or other from Lockhart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, in ten volumes. No introduction to Scott would be...

My Life as an AuthorI have often been asked to prepare an autobiography, but my objections to the task have ever been many and various. To one urgent appeal I sent this sonnet of refusal, which explains itself: In fact I always rejected the...

Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e - Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of EuropeI WAS going, like common editors, to advertise the reader of the beauties...

Chr. M. Wieland's BiographieChristoph Martin Wieland erblickte in dem unfern der ehemaligen freien Reichsstadt Biberach gelegenen Dorfe Ober-Holzheim am 5. September 1733 das Licht der Welt. Sein Vater, Matthias, der dort eine Pfarrstelle bekleidete, doch bald nachher Prediger an der Marien-Magdalenenkirche zu Biberach ward,...

Mein Weg als Deutscher und JudeOhne Rcksicht auf die Gewhnung meines Geistes, sich in Bildern und Figuren zu bewegen, will ich mir gedrngt von innerer Not und Not der Zeit Rechenschaft ablegen ber den problematischesten Teil meines Lebens, den, der mein Judentum und meine...

Andrew MarvellI desire to express my indebtedness to the following editions of Marvells Works: Mr. C.H. Firths Life of Marvell in the thirty-sixth volume of The Dictionary of National Biography has, I am sure, preserved me from some, and possibly from many, blunders. A.B....