On the Nature of Things by Lucretius

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged tune through 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 advance of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute photographs, encouraged via 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 hazards of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'.

Finally, the Memoirs reflect on 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 impressive and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The crimson Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian existence in ny, was once simply 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 struggle, thinks 'that possibly 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 with out concept the best way to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got all started a thousand (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine obtained to sounding so gloomy and that i used to be frightened of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and earlier unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 put in writing 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 thoroughly, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops outstanding figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas masking issues operating from her quite a few injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely some of the most pleasing of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version good points an advent, notes, and annotations on outstanding 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 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 step with carattere o destino.