The House At Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

This assortment charts the advance of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute images, encouraged by way of Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the advance of spirituality, the afterward the heritage 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 contemplate Heine's Jewish background 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 extraordinary and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The crimson Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author residing a bohemian existence in long island, used to be simply twenty-three. It instantly turned a bestseller, and Stephen Crane turned recognized. 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 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 notion find out how to escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got began 1000 (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine obtained to sounding so gloomy and that i was once fearful of uninteresting the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” therefore starts off a little-known and earlier unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 put in writing 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 appropriately, 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 overlaying themes working from her a number of injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely essentially the most wonderful of her letters—or for that topic any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version good points an advent, notes, and annotations on outstanding 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 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 keeping with carattere o destino.