Sarrasine - Gambara - Massimilla Doni by Honoré de Balzac

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 popular for his dependent prose.

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute images, encouraged through Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the advance of spirituality, the in a while the background 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 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 amazing and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian existence in manhattan, was once merely 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 battle, thinks 'that probably in a conflict he may possibly 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 best way to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got begun a thousand (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine received to sounding so gloomy and that i was once frightened of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and previously unpublished letter through Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 effectively, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops impressive figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas protecting 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 some of the most unique of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version gains an advent, notes, and annotations on awesome figures by way of Parker biographer Marion Meade.

Vite parallele. Vol. IV

Autore greco tra i più fecondi, Plutarco visse nell'Ellade dominata dai Romani. A segnare l. a. 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 in keeping with carattere o destino.