The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume 1: A.D. 180 by Edward Gibbon

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

A poet whose verse encouraged tune via 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 improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the trip photographs, encouraged by way 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 background 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 about Heine's Jewish history 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 terrific and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian lifestyles in big apple, used to be purely 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 warfare, thinks 'that maybe in a conflict he could 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 concept easy methods 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 received to sounding so gloomy and that i used to be fearful of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and previously unpublished letter via Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 safely, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops striking figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas protecting themes operating from her a variety of injuries and illnesses to her critiques on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely essentially the most pleasing of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation beneficial properties an advent, notes, and annotations on outstanding figures by way of Parker biographer Marion Meade.

Vite parallele. Vol. IV

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