Typhoon and Other Stories by Joseph Conrad

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 well-known for his dependent prose.

This assortment charts the improvement of that prose, starting with 3 meditative works from the trip images, encouraged via 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 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 contemplate 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 supply a desirable perception right into a marvelous 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 manhattan, used to be merely twenty-three. It instantly turned a bestseller, and Stephen Crane grew to become recognized. Crane got down to create 'a mental portrayal of worry. ' Henry Fleming, a Union military volunteer within the Civil struggle, thinks 'that maybe in a conflict he may perhaps 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 with out thought how one can escape—that lady being Dorothy Parker.

“Kids, i've got begun 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. ” hence begins a little-known and earlier unpublished letter by way of Dorothy Parker from a Swiss mountaintop.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 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 effectively, the biting composition reads like a gossipy diary access, typed out on Parker’s attractive new German typewriter. She namedrops outstanding figures like Ernest Hemingway and Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald whereas overlaying issues working from her a number of injuries and illnesses to her critiques on canine, literary critics and God. The writing is classic Parker: uncensored, unedited, deliciously malicious, and positively probably the most interesting of her letters—or for that subject any letter—that you’ll ever read.

This version positive aspects an advent, notes, and annotations on remarkable figures via 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 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 l. a. biografia di un noto uomo greco a quella di uno latino altrettanto celebre, simili in step with carattere o destino.