Download or read book Essays English and American Classic Reprint written by Raymond Macdonald Alden and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, English and American The term essay is used loosely of many different kinds of literature, but almost always means a relatively short prose composition of an expository character. It may exist for some useful purpose, and resemble a brief treatise; or, at the opposite extreme, it may be wholly concerned with pleasurable talk about personal or even trivial things. Upon its subject matter, then, there are practically no limits at all. For the purposes of knowledge, we are likely to value most highly the essay which is most impersonal or objective, - that is, which emphasizes the subject under consideration and not the one con sidering it; for the purposes of pure literature, that essay is usually best which shows most of the writer's personality. 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 Harvard Classics Vol 28 Classic Reprint written by Charles William Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Harvard Classics, Vol. 28 Success came to' Thackeray very slowly. Catherine, The Great Haggarty Diamond, Barry Lyndon, and several vol umes of travel had failed to gain much attention before the Snob Papers, issued in Punch in 1846, brought him fame. In the January of the next year Vanity Fair began to appear in monthly numbers, and by the time it was finished Thackeray had taken his place in the front rank of his profession. Pen dennis followed in 1850, and sustained the prestige he had won. 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 Oxford Book of American Essays Classic Reprint written by Brander Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book American Essays Classic Reprint written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book American Literary Essays Classic Reprint written by Lewis Leary and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Beginnings of American English written by Mitford McLeod Mathews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Beginnings of American English: Essays and Comments The true beginnings of American English, therefore, antedate by/ fully a century the earliest written com ments on the modifications that had taken place in the language. In the first chapter of this book I have pointed out briefly the circumstances under which some Of the early changes in this branch of the Eng lish language were made. 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 Best American Essays Classic Reprint written by John R. Howard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Signet Book of American Essays written by M. Jerry Weiss and published by Signet. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring Essays by Benjamin Franklin • Ralph Waldo Emerson • W.E.B. Du Bois • Albert Einstein • Gloria Steinem • Henry David Thoreau • Martin Luther King, Jr. • Mark Twain • Erma Bombeck • Abraham Lincoln • John F. Kennedy • and More... These are Americans who had something important to say—and said it in powerful, convincing ways. A compendium of commentary, criticism, and oratory excellence from throughout the nation’s history, The Signet Book of American Essays is a perfect resource for those searching for the most timeless essays ever conceived by America’s notable scientists, philosophers, politicians, and writers. From the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin to the outspoken empowerment of Gloria Steinem, from the biting satire of Mark Twain to the grave seriousness of Franklin D. Roosevelt, this collection offers the opportunity to learn the subtle arts of persuasion and rational argument as exemplified in these great American dissertations crafted by some of the country’s most brilliant and intriguing citizens.

Download or read book Essays English and American Vol 28 written by Charles W. Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays, English and American, Vol. 28: With Introductions and Notes In 1709 he came to England, and, with a brief visit to Ireland, dur ing which he took possession of his deanery of St. Patrick, he now passed five years in England, taking the most distinguished part in the political transactions which terminated with the death of Queen Anne. After her death, his party disgraced, and his hopes of ambition over, Swift returned to Dublin, where he remained twelve years. In this time he wrote the famous Drapier's Letters and Gulliver's Travels. He married Hester Johnson, Stella, and buried Esther Vanhomrigh, Vanessa, Who had followed him to Ireland from Lon don, where she had contracted a violent passion for him. In 1726 and 1727 Swift was in England, which he quitted for the last time on hearing of his wife's illness. Stella died in January, 1728, and Swift not until 1745, having passed the last five of the seventy-eight years of his life with an impaired intellect and keepers to watch him. 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 Select American Classics written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select American Classics: Being Selections From Irving's Sketch Book, Webster's Orations and Emerson's Essays as Published in the Eclectic English Classics Washington irving, the eighth and youngest son Of William and Sarah Irving, was born in a house on William Street, in New York City, April 3, I783. His father was a descendant Of an Old Orkney family, and his mother was a native Of Falmouth, England. Young Washington began his school days at the age Of four. At the age Of sixteen his school days were over, and he began the study Of law. Though his education was Of a rudimentary and incomplete character, consisting Of a smatter ing Of Latin, music, and the ordinary English branches, he gave early signs Of a natural avidity for reading, and Of a power Of rap idly assimilating what he read. Sinbad, Robinson Crusoe, and Gulliver made a deep impression on his young mind. His early fondness for romance showed itself in many ways, and the theater in John Street possessed for him a seductive Charm, to which he succumbed as Often as he could steal away from home; for his father, Of the stern ways and habits Of the Scotch Cove nanter, looked upon theaters with hearty disfavor. In I8oz he entered the law office Of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, and, together with his Blackstone, he read general literature voraciously. About this time his health began to fail, and he made frequent tn'ps up the Hudson and the Mohawk, to Ogdensburg, Montreal. 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 American Type and Other Essays Classic Reprint written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The New American Type, and Other Essays Not very long ago there was an exhibition of portraits in New York of unusual interest. In the first place, as the great sign over the entrance averred, the portraits were "worth millions;" in addition to this cynosural quality, some of them were painted by very famous painters. A third reason, neither practical nor artistic, must serve as the excuse for this little essay. The collection included portraits old and new; most of the old were of English men and women of the end of the eighteenth century; most of the new were present-day pictures of living Americans, both men and women. No one who climbed the stairs of the American Art Galleries, and wandered through those rambling halls, intended by the architect for an exhibition where light was less to be wished than shade, could keep his thoughts in artistic leash, and not let them stray from their proper office of looking on paintings as paintings only; no one, I mean, of the noble army of volunteer critics. 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 Rip Van Winkle written by Washington Irving and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle: And Other American Essays From the Sketch Book The acknowledged classics of English literature are many, and the number of those works which are worthy of being ranked among the classics grows from year to year. Whosoever would know the best that has been written in our tongue, can scarcely begin his acquaintance too soon in his own life after he has learned to read. Nor can he be too careful about the new members he admits to the circle of his book friendships. The gardener may have prepared his ground with scrupulous and rigid care, but unless he follows his planting with unremitting vigilance, the labor of preparation will have been in vain. A few days of neglect and the garden will be smothered in weeds. Profitable knowledge of the best in our literature must be sought with like vigilance and patience. The taste for it should be implanted early and when established must be cultivated and maintained with constancy. It should also be intelligently adapted to increasing years and widening experience. The first few books in the Golden Classics have been chosen as the foundation for a permanent and more extended series. They have been taken from the writings of acknowledged Masters of the English tongue. Among these immortals are Irving, Dickens, Ruskin, Longfellow, and Goldsmith; no names in English literature are more beloved and honored. More vital even than their great worth as literature, these selections have, in eminent degree, that wonderful quality of the works of human genius which stimulates the imagination of the reader, refines his taste, broadens and deepens his love of letters, inspires him with generous sympathy for all that is uplifting, and quickens his aversion toward all that is trashy or in any way 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 Essays in American History Classic Reprint written by Henry Ferguson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-12-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays in American History In the same manner, in earlier days, when the recollection of the struggle for inde pendence was still vivid, patriotic Americans were unable to recognize anything but ar bitrary tyranny in the attempts made from time to time by the English government to give unity and organization to the group of discordant and feeble settlements, or to see anything but what was base and servile in the sentiments that inspired those whom they nicknamed Tories. Now, under the influ ence of calmer consideration, men are begin ning to admit that something may be said for men like Andros, who strove against the separatist spirit which seemed to New Eng land to be the very essence of liberty, and even for those unfortunates who valued the connection with Great Britain more than they did the privileges of self government. 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 Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America Classic Reprint written by Barrett Wendell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America The change came none too soon. Harvard College, to be sure, has always been tme to what remains its oldest and strongest tradition - that every man and eveiy generation has an inalien able right to think. Thereby the men and the generations make their conclusions - no matter how orthodox - impregnably their own. The deep conservatism which has preserved this heretical tradition for above two centuries has resulted in a good many superficial changes meanwhile. The first conclusion arrived at by people who do their own thinking is generally that their immediate predecessors have been seriously mistaken. And the Harvard of one generation has almost always been a perceptibly different place from the Har vard of the next. The unparalleled growth of the college during the past twenty years, however, has made the most marked change in its history. 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 Leading American Essayists Classic Reprint written by William Morton Payne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Leading American Essayists The English essay is a literary species not easily defined. The term has been applied even in modern times to productions as far apart as the Essays of Ella and the Essay on Population. Between these extremes come countless writings, ranging from the solemnity of the Essays and Reviews to the light-heartedness, not to say the frivolity, of The New Republic. These contrasting examples from English literature may be matched on the American side of the Atlantic by naming Horace Greeley's Essays on American Farming with Donald Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor, the Essays of Count Rumford with Irving's Sketch Book, and the miscellaneous writings of the elder Henry James with those of the younger. We may, however, omit from the reckoning with out any serious question both the Reverend Mr. Malthus and the contributors to the Essays and Reviews, both the American pioneer of physical science and the American journalist, together with the authors of many other writings that are styled essays rather by accident than of set purpose. 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 In Structure and Style written by W. T. Brewster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Structure and Style: Based on Seven Modern English Essays V. James Bryce The Strength of American Democracy VI. John Ruskin: The Crown of Wild Olive VII. J. H. Newman: What is a University? 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 American Literary Readings written by Leonidas Warren Payne Jr. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Literary Readings: Edited With Introduction, Notes, Biographical Sketches, Some Thought Questions, an Outline of American Literature and a Brief Essay on English Metrics Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley; Doubleday Page Company for The Ransom of Red Chief, from Whirligigs, and The Last Leaf, from The Trimmed Lamp and Other Stories of the Four Million, by 0. Henry; the Whittaker ray-wiggin Company for Kit Carson's Ride and Columbus by Joaquin Miller. 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.