A Christmas Carol, The Chimes & The Cricket on the Hearth by Charles Dickens

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged track through Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) used to be in his lifetime both widespread for his stylish prose.

This assortment charts the advance of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the go back and forth images, encouraged through Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the advance of spirituality, the in a while the background of faith and Philosophy in Germany spans the earliest non secular ideals of the Germanic humans to the philosophy of Hegel, and warns with startling strength of the risks of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'.

Finally, the Memoirs examine Heine's Jewish background and describe his early adolescence. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items supply a desirable perception right into a awesome and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness used to be released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian existence in big apple, used to be merely twenty-three. It instantly turned a bestseller, and Stephen Crane grew to become recognized. Crane got down to create 'a mental portrayal of worry. ' Henry Fleming, a Union military volunteer within the Civil warfare, thinks 'that maybe in a conflict he may possibly run.

Alpine Giggle Week: How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)

A bit recognized, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a girl trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony without thought the way to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got began 1000 (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine bought to sounding so gloomy and that i used to be petrified of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore starts off a little-known and formerly unpublished letter by means of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop. Parker wrote the letter in September 1930 to Viking publishers Harold Guinzburg and George Oppenheimer—she went to France to jot down a singular for them and wound up in a TB colony in Switzerland. Parker refers back to the letter as a “novelette,” but there's not anything fictional approximately it. extra thoroughly, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops remarkable figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas masking subject matters operating from her a number of injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and positively the most exciting of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version gains an creation, notes, and annotations on awesome figures through Parker biographer Marion Meade.

Vite parallele. Vol. IV

Autore greco tra i più fecondi, Plutarco visse nell'Ellade dominata dai Romani. A segnare l. a. sua lunga esistenza, finita a quasi eighty anni, è stata l. a. consapevolezza di dover unire sotto un unico cielo due mondi distanti come quello greco e quello latino. according to questo nelle sue Vite Parallele, accosta los angeles biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili according to carattere o destino.