The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends (Classic Reprint)

The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends (Classic Reprint)
Author: Marie De Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2015-07-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781331114932
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Excerpt from The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends The Editress has set forth so fully, in the introductory sketch of Madame de Sevigne's Life and Times, her object in offering this book to the American public, that any further prologue may seem superfluous; yet there are one or two things to be said which seem to find their most proper expression in a Preface. Since the date of the first edition, the changes in the manners and feelings of the time have been rapid and continuous; and they have operated in a twofold manner. In the first place, we have become as a nation more thoroughly acquainted with French literature, and better able to appreciate that world of the past in which the great letter-writer lived. Madame de Sevigne was a woman who lived in and for others, - for her daughter, her friends, and, at a greater distance, for the brilliant circle of distinguished men and women of which she herself was so important a figure. Her letters are made up of incident, of meetings, of conversations: they are full of references to the topics then uppermost; they draw half their charm from the personality of the writer. Literature of this sort cannot stand alone. To enjoy it to the full we must know with some minuteness the history of the times in which it was written, and of the people to whom it was written. The knowledge of these things is now spreading wider every year, as we become familiar, through originals or translations, with the masterpieces of foreign languages. For instance, probably the best French sketch of Madame de Sevigne is from the pen of M. Sainte-Beuve, the great critic whom Mr. Arnold acknowledges for his master. 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."

50 Classic Biographies

50 Classic Biographies
Author: Golgotha Press
Publisher: BookCaps Study Guides
Total Pages: 12295
Release: 2011-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1610424352
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Learn more about some of the most interesting people to ever live with this anthology of 50 classic biographies. An active table of contents is included to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for. Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood The Adventures of Daniel Boone by Uncle Philip Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang Andrew Jackson by William Garrott Brown Balzac by Frederick Lawton Bacon by Richard William Church Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse, Jr. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill by William Frederick Charles Darwin by Grant Allen Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward Christopher Columbus by Mildred Stapley Byne Claudius by C. Suetonious Tranquillus Men of Letters: Coleridge by H. D. Traill Daniel Defoe by William Minto Emily Brontë by A. Mary F. Robinson Frederick Douglass by Charles Waddell Chesnutt George Washington by William Roscoe Thayer George Eliot by George Willis Cooke Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke H. G. Wells by J. D. Beresford Hawthorne by Henry James Henry VIII and His Court by Herbert Tree Herbert Hoover by Vernon Kellogg Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur-Leigh John Bunyan by James Anthony Froude John Knox by A. Taylor Innes John Quincy Adams by John. T. Morse Julius Caesar by C. Suetonious Tranquillus Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by John Addington Symonds St. Francis of Assisi by Paul Sabatier Life of Wagner by Louis Nohl A Life of William Shakespeare by Sidney Lee Mark Twain by Archibald Henderson Matthew Arnold by G. W. E. Russell Nero by C. Suetonious Tranquillus Patrick Henry by Moses Coit Tyler The Princess Pocahontas by Virginia Watson Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer Thomas Jefferson by Henry Childs Merwin DISCLAIMER: There has been concern about the table of contents (or lack thereof) in the ""50 Classic Books"" Series. Golgotha Press has addressed this problem and readers who download the books as of November 2011 can access a functional table of contents by going to the front of the book and paging forward two pages. Because of the size of this book, the ""active"" feature in the conversion is removed. We are trying resolve this problem, but until then, please follow the steps above. If you still experience the problem, please contact us so we can investigate exactly what is happening. Please note, however, that the table of contents does not become active until you purchase the book--preview mode does not currently support active TOC's. We apologize for any confusion or frustration this has caused."

Selected Letters

Selected Letters
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1982
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 014044405X
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Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV

Harper's Weekly

Harper's Weekly
Author: John Bonner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 868
Release: 1857
Genre: American periodicals
ISBN:
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