The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics) by Baldesar Castiglione

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

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

Finally, the Memoirs think of Heine's Jewish history and describe his early adolescence. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items supply a desirable perception right into a magnificent 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 lifestyles in long island, was once in simple terms 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 might be 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 recognized, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a lady trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony without thought the way to escape—that lady being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got begun a thousand (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine bought to sounding so gloomy and that i was once petrified of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and beforehand unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 properly, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops impressive figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas protecting subject matters operating from her quite a few injuries and illnesses to her critiques on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and positively essentially the most unique of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation beneficial properties an advent, notes, and annotations on impressive 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 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. in keeping with 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.