The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the commute photographs, encouraged by means of Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the improvement of spirituality, the afterward 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 contemplate Heine's Jewish history and describe his early early life. As wealthy in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his maximum poems, jointly the items provide a desirable perception right into a great 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 lifestyles in ny, was once basically twenty-three. It instantly grew to become 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 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 recognized, rediscovered letter:  an SOS from a girl trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony without thought the way to escape—that lady being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got began 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 terrified of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence starts off a little-known and before unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 properly, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s appealing new German typewriter. She namedrops extraordinary figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas protecting themes working from her numerous injuries and illnesses to her evaluations 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 subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This variation beneficial properties an creation, notes, and annotations on awesome figures by means of 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. in step with questo nelle sue Vite Parallele, accosta los angeles biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili in step with carattere o destino.