The Crack-Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged tune via Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) used to be in his lifetime both sought after for his stylish prose.

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the go back and forth images, encouraged through Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the improvement 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 risks of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'.

Finally, the Memoirs examine 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 significant and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness used to be released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian existence in long island, 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 warfare, 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 without suggestion find out how to escape—that lady 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 acquired 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. ” hence begins a little-known and formerly unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 write 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 remarkable figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas overlaying themes working from her numerous 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 enjoyable of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation good points an advent, notes, and annotations on impressive 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 los angeles 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. consistent 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.