El carnaval de Roma by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged track via Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was once in his lifetime both sought after for his stylish prose.

This assortment charts the advance of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the go back and forth photos, encouraged by means of Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the advance of spirituality, the in a while 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 contemplate Heine's Jewish history and describe his early youth. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items supply a desirable perception right into a significant 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 long island, was once in basic terms twenty-three. It instantly turned 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 struggle, thinks 'that possibly 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 recognized, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a lady trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony without suggestion the way 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 frightened of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and previously unpublished letter via Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 adequately, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops extraordinary figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas masking themes 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 some of the most wonderful of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

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