Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws (Cambridge Texts by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged track by way of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was once in his lifetime both renowned 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 by means 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 spiritual 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 ponder Heine's Jewish background and describe his early adolescence. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items provide a desirable perception right into a awesome and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian existence in big apple, was once in basic terms twenty-three. It instantly grew to become a bestseller, and Stephen Crane turned well-known. Crane got down to create 'a mental portrayal of worry. ' Henry Fleming, a Union military volunteer within the Civil conflict, thinks 'that maybe in a conflict he may perhaps 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 without notion tips on how to escape—that lady 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 was once terrified of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and before unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 appropriately, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops amazing figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas masking subject matters operating from her a variety of injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely probably the most exciting of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version beneficial properties an creation, notes, and annotations on impressive 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 los angeles sua lunga esistenza, finita a quasi eighty anni, è stata los angeles 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 los angeles biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili according to carattere o destino.