The Shadow-Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad

The Harz Journey and Selected Prose

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

This assortment charts the advance of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the shuttle photos, encouraged by way of Heine's trips as a tender guy to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the improvement of spirituality, the afterward 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 background 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 outstanding and prophetic mind.

The Red Badge of Courage

The pink Badge of braveness was once released in 1895, whilst its writer, an impoverished author dwelling a bohemian existence in ny, used to be merely 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 possibly 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 lady trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with out concept how you can escape—that girl being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got began a thousand (1,000) letters to you, yet all of them via no will of mine bought to sounding so gloomy and that i used to be scared of dull the mixed tripe out of you, so I by no means despatched them. ” hence begins a little-known and previously unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 appropriately, 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 overlaying issues operating from her quite a few injuries and illnesses to her evaluations on canines, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and definitely some of the most exciting of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version positive aspects an creation, notes, and annotations on impressive 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 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. in line with questo nelle sue Vite Parallele, accosta los angeles biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili in keeping with carattere o destino.