Love (Penguin Classics) by Stendhal

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 famous for his stylish prose.

This assortment charts the improvement 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 improvement of spirituality, the in a while 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 history and describe his early youth. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items provide a desirable perception right into a great and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The crimson Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian lifestyles in long island, was once merely twenty-three. It instantly turned a bestseller, and Stephen Crane grew to become well-known. 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 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 identified, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a girl trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with out proposal the right way to escape—that lady being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got begun 1000 (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine acquired to sounding so gloomy and that i used to be scared of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and in the past unpublished letter through Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 safely, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops remarkable figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas protecting themes working from her numerous injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely the most unique of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation positive aspects an creation, notes, and annotations on extraordinary 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 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 l. a. biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili consistent with carattere o destino.