Download or read book An Anthology of Modern English Prose Classic Reprint written by Annie Barnett and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Anthology of Modern English Prose Monday Morning Yesterday we set out, attended by John, Abraham, Benjamin, and Isaac, in new and fine liveries, in the best carriage, which had been cleaned, lined, and new harnessed, so that it looked like a quite new one; but I had no arms to quarter with my dear lord and masters; though he jocularly, upon my noticing my obscurity, said that he had a good mind to have the olive-branch quartered for mine. I was dressed in the suit of white, flowered with silver, a rich head-dress, and the diamond necklace and earrings I mentioned before; and my dear sir in a fine laced silk waistcoat of blue Paduasoy, and his coat a pearl-coloured fine cloth, with gold buttons and button-holes, and lined with white silk. I said I was too fine, and would have laid aside some of the jewels; but he said it would be thought a slight to me from him, as his wife; and though I apprehended that people might talk as it was, yet he had rather they should say anything than that I was not put upon an equal footing as his wife with any lady he might have married. It seems, the neighbouring gentry had expected us, and there was a great congregation; for (against my wish) we were a little late; so that, as we walked up the church to his seat, we had many gazers and whisperers; but my dear master behaved with so intrepid an air, and was so cheerful and complaisant to me, that he did credit to his kind choice, instead of showing as if he was ashamed of it; and I was resolved to busy my mind entirely with the duties of the day; my intentness on the occasion, and my thankfulness to God for His unspeakable mercies to me, so took up my thoughts I was much less concerned than I should otherwise have been, at the gazings and whisperings of the congregation, whose eyes were all turned to our seat. 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.
Download or read book Modern English Prose written by George Rice Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern English Prose: Selected and Edited Our aim in compiling this volume has been to present the largest possible amount of illustrative material for classes in rhetoric and English composition. In proportion as the secondary teaching of English becomes more adequate, the need of instructing freshmen in elementary rhetorical principles tends to disappear, and with it much of the importance of a text-book of rhetoric. Even where the text-book cannot be dispensed with altogether, the experienced teacher will wish to have it supplemented as much as possible by the reading and study of good models. Practically, as we have all found, this must be done by using a volume of illustrative material. But the available books of this sort are few. They contain comparatively little matter, and this matter consists mainly of short extracts, often illustrative only of one special form of composition. Our aim has been to present a rich store of material in complete essays, stories, chapters, or component parts of larger works, to provide illustration for all the main forms of composition, and to offer as little annotation and explanation as possible. 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.
Download or read book An Anthology of English Prose written by S. L. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Anthology of English Prose: From Bede to R. L. Stevenson The trend of English prose, always more elusive than that of poetry, and its gradual development from infancy to gigantic growth, afford a voyage of adventure for him who seeks. The temper of the English mind, the growth of its national sensibility, have found an idealized expression in the pages of poetry, but in the realms of prose have been re ected in all their many moods and changes with kaleidoscopic vigour and detail. It was characteristic of English prose during its earliest period that it should have little universal interest; until the eighteenth century it was the instrument for the individual expression of enthusiasm for a particular religious belief, or a favourite line of thought. What there was of general interest to mankind came into England in the form of translations - most in uential of all, the Authorized Version of the Bible in 1611. The writers of English prose ploughed small and isolated plots, while poetry early swept over its head and rained benefits upon rich and poor, learned and lewd. Yet the national energy from earliest times has found its expression, eeting though that was at first, in prose, as well as in poetry; and as the Saxon element absorbed the Norman and all other in uxes of alien growth, so English prose has enriched itself from many foreign sources and yet remains thoroughly English. 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."
Download or read book An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry written by Henry Newbolt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry: Shewing the Main Stream of English Literature Through Six Centuries (14th Century-19th Century) The plan Of this book is simple, but it is believed to be new. My object has been not to supply one more portable collection of gems, but to show the progress of the English language and literature as the gradual gathering of many tributaries into one stream, or of many characters and influences into one great national concourse. In attempting this I found at once that three conditions imposed them selves. The selection must include both prose and verse and it must treat upon the same footing all printed work of interest, whether scientific, philosophical, political or creative. But thirdly, an arrangement must be devised by which the reader should be enabled to follow the stream continuously, to trace without confusion the entrance and effect of the gathering influences. It has generally been the custom in making a volume of selections to place the authors according to their dates of birth but from my point of view this was too mechanical an arrangement and would Often introduce confusion where it was a chief object to be clear. The moment of birth is not the moment of a great writer's entry into the world of thought: nor is it possible to fix any age at which genius or literary influence may be said in general to take effect. 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.
Download or read book An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry Vol 2 written by Henry Newbolt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Vol. 2: 14th Century 19th Century; Part II. Notes and Indices But originality does not depend on freedom from influences. (it could not, for everyone has an environment, and one resulting from the past.) These influences, this tradition of methods and insight, this store of experiences, is a strength, not a weakness, for those who can use it with a degree of mastery. There will always be, as Mr. Abercrombie says, the amateur artist who worries himself with anxiety to create beauty - that is, the man who, being fond of figs, wishes to be a fig tree as well as a consumer - but there will also be the genuine artist whose impulse and vision are his own, though he receives from others the suggestion of a subject, a vocabulary, a technique, or even the first guidance towards a new point of view. His feeling, too, will inevitably be coloured by the social and political life of his country and by the public or semi-public opinion of his generation: and it is on this account that private letters, diaries, and other non-literary documents have been included in our collection. We may speak then of the history of literature if we please but let us at the same time remember what Literature really is let us look at the work of the great initiators and note that the greater they are the more difficult or the less relevant it is to define them in such terms. When we make our survey of literature we are not inspecting a pedigree herd or a school of verbal dexterity: what we see is the spectacle of the timeless, immaterial human spirit expressing itself under the limitations of Time and bodily existence. We too are under those limitations. 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.
Download or read book An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction written by Paul Salzman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains five of the most important short works of Elizabethan prose fiction: George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J., John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Robert Greene's Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury. Paul Salzman has modernized the texts for easier comprehension.
Download or read book Catalogue of the English Prose Fiction Classic Reprint written by Baltimore Mercantile Libra Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the English Prose Fiction The present list of Fiction is put forth to supply a want that has long been felt. Although the need of a Catalogue of this department is not so urgent as that of the other departments of the Library, yet it was thought desirable, in view of the great expense attending, and time necessary for compiling and printing a complete Catalogue of our collection, to print this first. And as soon as the income of the Library will permit, to publish the Catalogue of the other departments. The following list includes all the Library possesses in this department, to October, 1874. 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.
Download or read book Contemporary English Literature Classic Reprint written by Mark Longaker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contemporary English Literature The general bibliographies are arranged according to literary type, with subdivisions indicatedlin so far as they prove helpful. The reference works on poetry, for example, are subdivided into anthologies, biographical and critical studies, and discussions of poetic theory and principle. In the bibliographies of individual authors, the order of ar rangement is generally from comprehensi've treatment to the treatment of particular facets of the author's life and works. The chronologies of authors' works and the lists of biblio graphical items are often selective rather than exhaustive; and in the reference works, reviews and newspaper notices are not included. Only places of publication other than New York and London are listed in the bibliographies. 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.
Download or read book The New Oxford Book of English Prose written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a unique anthology. Drawing on the full range of English prose, wherever it has been written, it illustrates the growth, development, and resources of the language from the legends of Sir Thomas Malory to the novels of Kashuo Ishiguro. In the process it reveals a variety ofachievements which no other language can match. The book represents an enormous diversity of men and women - from John Bunyan to John Updike, from Brendan Behan to Chinua Achebe, from Dorothy Wordsworth to Patrick White. As the centuries progress, American writers increase their presence, and by the twentieth century there are contributions fromIndia, Australia, Canada, Nigeria, the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. The selection is no less remarkable for its breadth in terms of subject-matter and treatment. Fiction is generously represented, but many other kinds of writing have also been drawn on: letters, diaries, and memoirs; history and philosophy; criticism and reportage; sermons and satire; travel-books;reflections on art, science, politics and sport. There are classic and well-loved passages, and also a great deal that is unfamiliar. John Gross has chosen with consummate skill to produce a volume that is both a testimonial to English prose and an endless source of pleasurable browsing.
Download or read book Catalogue of English Prose Fiction Classic Reprint written by Aurora Public Library and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of English Prose Fiction The Free Public Library of Newark, New Jersey, has compiled a list of one hundred of.the best novels. The list, it is said, does not claim to include the one hundred best novels. About sixty of the books are acknowledged classics; the remaining forty include some of the more noteworthy of the recent novels others were added to give variety, and to insure that no one consulting the list would fail to find the titles of at least a few books that he had read and enjoyed. In the same spirit the Aurora Public Library presents the list to its readers as a guide in the selection of what is worth reading in fiction. We miss from the list the names of Fielding and Richardson, fathers of the English novel; of Sienkiewicz, the brilliant Polish novelist; of Cervantes, the Spaniard, whose Don Quixote is among the world-famous books; of Freytag and Auerbach, who have given us such convincing pictures of German life and manners; of Mrs. Stowe, whose Uncle Tom's Cabin was an epoch-making book. But we take the list as we find it, assured that it contains nothing unworthy. 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.
Download or read book An Anthology of English Prose written by S. L. Edwards and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1953 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern English Literature written by George Herbert Mair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern English Literature: From Chaucer to the Present Day Modern English Literature which I wrote two years ago for the Home University Library. A considerable number of additions and corrections have been made, and authors have been dealt with whom it was impossible to include in the smaller book. Particularly the study of modern English literature has been taken back to Chaucer, with whom it may be said strictly to begin, so that the book now covers more or less the whole range of those English authors whose work can be read without the intervention of the philologist or the professor of dead dialects. Its plan, however, remains the same, that is to say, it aims at maintaining an individual point of view, at laying stress on ideas and tendencies rather than at recording facts and events, and it does not hesitate to draw generously on standard works of criticism and biography with which students are familiar. I believe most of my debts are acknowledged; for any which are not I crave pardon. The portraits which accompany the text have been carefully chosen and are believed to be the most character istic in each case of the authors whom they. 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.
Download or read book A Little Book of English Prose written by Annie Barnett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the PREFACE. THE Editor of this Little Book has endeavoured to present the chosen passages as nearly as possible in the form in which they left the hands of their authors. Something, indeed, has been conceded to modern punctuation where the original seemed unduly misleading, but the spelling has been left as the authors themselves apparently intended it to be. Their seeming arbitrariness is often in truth compliance with strict rules, though possibly of the writer's own making; and when variety in spelling is no serious obstacle to ready apprehension, it is surely to be preferred to the uniformity founded on the pronunciation of the majority, with which we are threatened. The explanatory notes that have been added are so few and so brief that they hardly need an apology; Some readers will still perhaps find a few difficult words in the early part of the book, but the Editor has had in view chiefly those who will prefer by a little consideration of the context to find the key to a doubtful passage themselves, without any impertinent aids to reflection. It will be noticed that two translations have been admitted, passages from Lord Berners' Froissart and Sir Thomas North's Plutarch. It has seemed a sufficient justification for their inclusion that they come from works of standard importance in the line of great English literature, from translations by men of letters into English which is both their own and significant. The Introduction to this Little Book has been written by Joseph Addison, Esq., and will be found on page 135. Several readers may be expected to have different "relishes," and to no one can an anthology be so satisfying as to its compiler; but it is hoped that this one will be reasonably acceptable, and it may at least claim to be as truly representative of the progress of English prose writing as its small bulk permits. ISLEWORTH, July 1900.
Download or read book Modern English Classic Reprint written by Fitzedward Hall and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Modern English The contents of this volume are made up, in the main, of selections from a large number of essays which I have composed, within the last ten years, for my own amusement. As to the particular chapters here grouped together, seeing that they were Written at considerable intervals, and, as soon as written, were laid aside and well nigh forgotten, I found, on revising them, that, almost of course, I had, here and there, in some measure repeated myself. After all. 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.
Download or read book English Literature written by George Herbert Mair and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Literature: Modern The intention of this book is to lay stress on ideas and tendencies that have to be under stood and appreciated, rather than on facts that have to be learned by heart. Many authors are not mentioned and others receive scanty treatment, because of the necessities of this method of approach. The book aims at dealing with the matter of authors more than with their lives; consequently it con tains few dates. All that the reader need require to help him have been included in a short chronological table at the end. 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.
Download or read book Anthology of Modern American Poetry written by Cary Nelson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.
Download or read book A Treasury of English Literature Vol 4 written by Kate M. Warren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Treasury of English Literature, Vol. 4: Bacon to Milton This book is the fourth of a series of six volumes which form, all together, an anthology of English verse and prose from the earliest time up to Burns. The whole has been already published in one volume under the title of A Treasury of English Literature, but for the convenience of students and classes who may wish to study separately a particular epoch, this edition in six books has been prepared. The selections in each volume of the series represent a period of literature, and, so far, form a whole. For an account of the aims of the complete anthology readers are referred to the Editor's Preface which, together with Mr. Stop ford Brooke's Introduction, is printed at the beginning of this book. The present volume begins with the Authorized Version of the Bible and ends with Milton. It will be seen that prose now takes a more prominent place than in the earlier books. An age which produced such prose writers as Lord Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne, Jeremy Taylor and Bunyan, to name only these four, may be forgiven if its poets (always excepting Milton, whose soul was, like a star and dwelt lost by degrees the Eliza bethan charm and developed those metaphysical qualities which were soon to bring about, for a time, the death of true poetry. But the metaphysical poets included in this volume are of a high order, and sometimes peculiarly beautiful to see them at their worst, and to understand why they came to an end, the reader should consult Johnson's Life of Cowley. 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.
