Mr. Justice Raffles (A. J. Raffles, Book 4) by E. W. Hornung

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute photographs, 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 hazards of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'.

Finally, the Memoirs reflect on Heine's Jewish background 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 used to be released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian existence in manhattan, used to be simply 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 battle, thinks 'that maybe 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 identified, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a lady trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony without thought easy methods to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got began 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 terrified of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and previously unpublished letter via Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 jot 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 appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops awesome figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas overlaying themes operating from her quite a few injuries and illnesses to her critiques 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 positive aspects an creation, notes, and annotations on outstanding figures by means of 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. in step 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.