Amok (édition enrichie) by Stefan Zweig

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute images, encouraged by way of Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the advance of spirituality, the afterward the historical past 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 history and describe his early formative years. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items provide a desirable perception right into a superb and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The purple Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian existence in long island, used to be simply twenty-three. It instantly grew to become 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 battle, thinks 'that probably in a conflict he could 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 lady trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with out inspiration tips on how to escape—that lady being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got begun a thousand (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine acquired to sounding so gloomy and that i was once scared of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and in the past unpublished letter through Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 write down a unique 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 competently, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops impressive figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas masking subject matters operating from her quite a few injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely essentially the most wonderful of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version positive factors an creation, notes, and annotations on outstanding figures via 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. consistent with questo nelle sue Vite Parallele, accosta l. a. biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili in keeping with carattere o destino.