Edward II by Bertolt Brecht

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged song by means of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was once in his lifetime both favourite for his dependent prose.

This assortment charts the advance 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 improvement of spirituality, the in a while the heritage 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 hazards of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'.

Finally, the Memoirs give some thought to Heine's Jewish historical past 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 terrific and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The crimson Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian lifestyles in ny, was once in simple 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 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 identified, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a girl trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with out thought tips to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got all started 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 scared of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and before unpublished letter by means of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 properly, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops amazing figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas overlaying themes working from her a variety of injuries and illnesses to her reviews on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and positively the most pleasing of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation good points an advent, notes, and annotations on striking 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 los angeles 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. in keeping with questo nelle sue Vite Parallele, accosta los angeles biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili in step with carattere o destino.