Stories of Mr. Keuner by Bertolt Brecht

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged track via Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) used to be 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 shuttle images, 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 think of Heine's Jewish background and describe his early adolescence. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items provide a desirable perception right into a fabulous and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, while its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian lifestyles in manhattan, used to be basically 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 maybe in a conflict he may well 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 with out thought how you can 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 used to be scared of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore begins a little-known and earlier unpublished letter via Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 thoroughly, 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 subject matters operating from her a number of injuries and illnesses to her reviews on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and positively the most exciting of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation beneficial properties an creation, notes, and annotations on awesome 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 l. a. 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. 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.