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Author : Stanley Victor Makower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English essays
ISBN : WISC:89099442006
Author : Stanley Victor Makower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1105296205
Author : Stanley V. Makower
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330328094
Excerpt from A Book of English Essays (1600-1900) In selecting the following Essays we have been guided by a desire to secure variety, not only in the outlook and equipment of our authors, but also in the subjects by which we have chosen to represent them. It was our object to set before the reader a rich and entertaining banquet rather than to make a bid for the critics recognition of the supreme merits of each dish. In other words, we have wanted the essays chosen to differ from one another as widely and in as great a variety of ways as was compatible with the resolution to maintain a high level of excellence throughout the book. In conformity with this plan we have chosen relatively few essays on literary subjects. To be made acquainted with a masters thoughts on some common topic of daily life is to enjoy a rarer and a more profitable glimpse of his genius than we can get by reading his opinions on the work of a brother author. Bacon and Goldsmith, differing from each other so profoundly and in so many ways as to offer the best because the most widely divergent standards for the comparison and contrast of all other essays, agree in this, that they avoid writing on literary subjects. 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 : Stanley B 1872 Makower,Basil Blackwell
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1376826828
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Author : Stanley Victor Makower,Sir Basil Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : English essays
ISBN : OCLC:723675826
Author : Stanley V. Makower
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0483196290
Excerpt from A Book of English Essays (1600-1900) Of the word Essay it is necessary to say some thing, because at different times it has borne different meanings. Johnson's definition of it as a loose sally of the mind an irregular undigested piece covered its employment by authors to excuse shortcomings, and to disarm the critic in his examination of a work which boasted of no pretence to literature. Some such idea of admitted or implied failure in a worthy experiment adhered to Montaigne's use of the word in those Essaz's which were published in 1580. But the decay of this sense began in fact with this publication, although the author expressed his apology for being some thing fantastical For that very wandering from point to point which in Montaigne was a habit of mind, was developed by the English essayists of the eighteenth century into a deliberate study. Out of what Montaigne would have been only too pleased to call irregularity and want of finish they invented a literary quality which in Goldsmith rose to a perfection of carelessness in approaching and retreating from a subject. It was in another direction from that taken by Montaigne and his followers that Bacon enlarged the meaning of the word essay in literature. He applied it to his pieces not in the sense of an experiment but in the sense of a test or assay He weighed and examined his subjects one by one. With the grip of his intellect he clung to each separate subject as to a rock while he treated of it, refusing to dip to the invading wave of kindred ideas by which it was surrounded. In the dedica tion of his second edition of pieces to Prince Henry of Wales in 1612 he wrote of them as brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient'. And he went on to point out that Seneca's epistles to Lucilius were, if read aright, nothing but essays. 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 : Stanley Makower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514629836
The interior of this book is a facsimile reproduction of a unique and rare book published in London and New York, by Oxford University Press, in 1912. Search similar books with the keyword hcbooks.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1106866367
Author : Stanley V. Makower,Basil H. Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1979-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0848250842
Author : Stanley V. Makower,Basil H. Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499289904
Author : Stanley Victor Makower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503303826
Author : Bob Blaisdell
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486112367
Essays spanning four centuries reflect the wit, wisdom, and common sense of a number of distinguished English writers. Includes works by Addison, Swift, Johnson, Goldsmith, Lamb, Woolf, Shaw, and others.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2134 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Publishers' catalogs
ISBN : SRLF:D0003538113
Author : Trenton B. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429602290
For all of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievements in fiction, many of his contemporaries thought of him primarily as an essayist. His essays, known for their intellectual substance, emotional force, and stylistic vitality, were widely considered the best of their time. Despite the importance of Stevenson’s nonfiction, his personal essays—70 in total—have never been printed together in a single volume until now. Stevenson’s essays explore a range of topics from illness and evolution to marriage and dreams, and from literal and literary travel to the behavior of children and the character of dogs. Grappling with many of the cultural, ethical, and existential questions of his age, he resists dogma to draw fresh conclusions. Stevenson examines beggars and university students, immigrants and engineers, invalids and nurses, outlining his own colorful life story and unique approach to "the art of living" along the way. Whereas the most common and widely available versions of these texts were modified after Stevenson’s death, this volume gathers his personal essays, many of which have never appeared in any modern edition, in their authorized versions. These essays are still considered classic models of the form, and in this volume, the Editor presents them alongside an introduction and notes to assist in a rereading and reappreciation that is long overdue.
Author : Caleb Thomas Winchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : English essays
ISBN : WISC:89098525421