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Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2016-06-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781333007065 |
Excerpt from American Essays Another of our typical essayists is George Wil liam Curtis. Toward the end of his life Curtis wrote every month, for Harper's Magazine, a paper called The Editor's Easy Chair. These were true essays, not unlike in character Thackeray's Roundabout Papers. Each month he thought of some subject around which he might weave his ideas and fancies, and the result was a collection full of character and thought. But these were not Curtis's first experiments in this direction. In Prue and I we have a series of papers which, though put in the form of reveries (shall we call them?) of an old bookkeeper, are quite as much essays as if Curtis had written them in his own person. Some of them are more of an exercise of fancy, it is true, but there is thought in them too, perhaps as much as he afterwards put into his lay sermons from The Editor's Easy Chair. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : John R. Howard |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2017-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780260094230 |
Excerpt from Best American Essays Poe, in his essay on The Philosophy of Com position (pp. 87 says, with special reference to poems: If any literary work is too long to be read at one sitting, we must be content to dispense with the immensely important effect derivable from unity of impression; for if two sittings be required. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Brander Matthews |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2018-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780484483711 |
Excerpt from The Oxford Book of American Essays The customary antithesis between American litera ture and English literature is unfortunate and mislead ing in that it seems to exclude American authors from the noble roll of those who have contributed to the literature of our mother-tongue. Of course, when we consider it carefully we cannot fail to see that the literature of a lan guage is one and indivisible and that the nativity or the domicile of those who make it matters nothing. Just as Alexandrian literature is Greek, SO American literature is English; and as Theocritus demands inclusion in any ac count Oi Greek literature, SO Thoreau cannot be omitted from any history of English literature as a whole. The works of Anthony Hamilton and Rousseau, Mme. De' Stael and M. Maeterlinck are not more indisputably a part of the literature Of the French language than the works of Franklin and Emerson, of Hawthorne and Poe are part of the literature of the English language. Theocritus may never have set foot on the soil of Greece, and Thoreau never adventured himself on the Atlantic to Visit the island home of his ancestors; yet the former expressed himself in Greek and the latter in English, - and how can either be neglected in any comprehensive survey of the literature of his own tongue? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Robert Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1837 |
Genre | : Socialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Kenneth Ryan |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2018-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780656728725 |
Excerpt from American Essays for the Newman Centennial Of making books upon any great figure there is no end. On the great artist, as on the great man, the last word can never be said. It is part of their greatness that they arouse other to imitate them in some measure. It is of their gift that they stimulate lesser minds to think, and that they silently encourage poorer men to speak and act. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Lewis Leary |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2017-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781334900211 |
Excerpt from American Literary Essays Absent Things in American Life 37 William Dean Howells (1837 - 1920) Art and Democracy 38 H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) American Culture 39 42 45. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Sir Charles Bell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1806 |
Genre | : Anatomy, Artistic |
ISBN | : |
First edition of Bell's (1774-1842) important study of the anatomy and physiology of facial expression. The expressions, attitudes, and movements of the human body had always interested scientists as well as artists, but never before had thy been treated with such depth and conciseness. The work reflects Bell's brilliance as both artist and anatomist, and inspired Darwin's own Expression of the Emotions (1872), which he described Bell as one of the founders of the subject as a branch of science. Reyolds, 404, Wellcome, II, p.135, B & L Rootenberg,1987
Author | : Phillip Lopate |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0525436278 |
A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.
Author | : American Peace Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Peace |
ISBN | : |
Sixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged.
Author | : Carl Van Doren |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2017-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780484187114 |
Excerpt from Many Minds: Critical Essays on American Writers The work Of Mary Austin had been to discover that common ground and to prophesy its uses. Born in the Middle West, now apparently the center Of the nation's greatest energy, she lived her maturing years in a kind Of desert isolation in California. There she had her vision, there she found what she felt to be her place in the cosmic scheme. For all the toll the desert takes Of a man, she wrote in her first book, it gives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.