Download or read book Masters of English Literature Classic Reprint written by Edwin Watts Chubb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of English Literature An Introductory chapter is included so as to present a very brief survey of the whole field of English literature At the end of each chapter there is a list of books and magazine articles. It is hoped that these reference lists will be especially helpful to those who wish to make a fuller study of the author. Instead of inserting separate chapters on the literary movements and tendencies of the age, I have included such matter in the body of the biographical and critical comment on each author. 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 Masters of English Literature Classic Reprint written by Stephen Gwynn and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Masters of English Literature Some explanation is needed to account for the appearance of this book, in a period which sets so much value on specialised study. The writer would justify it by the view, first, that in English literature there are certain authors who may be classed as obligatory - concerning whom total ignorance is a defect at least to be concealed; and secondly, that the ordinary reader has neither the time nor inclination to study all these authors at first hand. An attempt has therefore been made to put together a survey of the literature which should concern itself only with such authors as can be deemed in this manner essential; with the hope that it might usefully supplement the necessarily partial knowledge possessed by young or busy people, and perhaps serve as a guide to those who wish to extend their reading. The main criterion which has regulated the selection of names is public fame. 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 Masters in Literature Classic Reprint written by Robert F. Savage and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters in Literature This volume has been prepared principally for those who are taking up a systematic study of English Literature for the first time. The aim has been to show in simple, brief, and, it is hoped, interesting manner the successive developments in our literature's history, and to give our great writers their proper historical setting. 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 Masters of Victorian Literature written by Richard D. Graham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Masters of Victorian Literature: 1837-1897 The following pages have been written chiefly for the younger students of English Literature. Existing works on this subject usually st0p at the threshold of our own time, but the interest of young students, so far from ending there, is strongly attracted towards the authors of to-day. To gratify their natural curiosity, and especially to foster in them a taste for what is beautiful, and of permanent value in the literature of the Victorian era, is the aim which the author has had in view. No scheme of ex amination has been present to his thoughts in writing. At the same time he has made ample use of facts, and even of dates, in connection with the per sonal element in the literature of the period, and has sought to show into what setting of circumstances in the life-history of the writer himself, the works of his genius are to be fitted. 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 Masters Classic Reprint written by Leon Henry Vincent and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Literary Masters Tbe nineteen men of letter: wbo: e work i: re viewed in fbi: 'volume repre: ent an important balfl century of our national literary life. Tbe tarting point i: tbe year I 809, tbe date of A Hi: tory of N ew York by Diedrieb Knickerbocker. No autbor i: included wbo: e reputation doe: not re: t, in part, on ome notable book publi: bed before I 8 60. Reader: of modern F reneb eritiei: m will not need to be told tbat tbe plan of dividing tbe tudie: into bort eetion: wa: taken from F a guet': admi rable dix-septieme S ieele. 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 Masters of French Literature Classic Reprint written by George McLean Harper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of French Literature For the general reader, I fancy such a his tory of French literature would be far more illuminating than some of the detailed hand books which bewilder the mind with thousands of names and titles, and brief, insufficient ah stracts of books great and small. There would be the difference that exists between a series of views from twenty mountain tops, each one within sight of its immediate neighbors, and the record made by a pedometer. Or, to vary this rather prolonged figure of speech which has helped us thus far, such a history would possess the advantage that a person gains from residence in a few foreign towns, as compared with spending an equal amount of time in rapid travel, from one meaningless hotel to another. 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 Masters of Literature De Quincey Classic Reprint written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of Literature, De Quincey De Quincey's active life synchronized with the period when the English and Scottish literary periodicals were at the apogee of their influence and success. They sup plied the public with a great deal both of its serious, and its lighter, reading; they were powerful, wealthy, and important, and their circulation was, for their time, large; they were conducted by enterprising publishers or keen men of business who, in their ardent rivalry with one another, were eager to draw the ablest pens of Britain into their service. A monthly or quarterly press which had among its contributors such writers as Coleridge, Keats, Landor, Sir William Hamilton, Christopher North, Lockhart, Hood, Lamb, Hazlitt, Jeffrey, John Stuart Mill, Carlyle, and Macaulay, had some reason to think well of itself. 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 Course of English Literature Classic Reprint written by James Hannay and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Course of English LiteratureThe present book is based upon a series of papers contributed some years ago to a popular periodical. It is intended for the use, not of schools only, but of that large and increasing class of young men in our great cities, who desire to be guided to the acquirement of a respectable knowledge of our national literature. I believe that there is sufficient novelty in its plan and execution to entitle it to a fair trial; and I am not without hopes that it may help to keep alive that interest in the great masters of the past, which cannot perish without injury.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 Masters of Literature Carlyle Classic Reprint written by A. W. Evans and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of Literature, Carlyle For more than twenty-five years of his lifetime Carlyle occupied a place among his contemporaries which is very nearly unique in the history of English men of letters. Men of all schools and of all parties listened for the oracles delivered at Chelsea with veneration, enthusiasm, doubt, dissent, or amusement, but always with close attention. His denunciations of what displeased him in life or in letters were passed about from mouth to mouth and laughed at or applauded, while his approval of a scheme or of a movement was looked upon by those (and they were not many) who received it as a testimonial of the highest worth. He was, in short, almost an English institution. And this ascendancy was quite as much a tribute to his character as an acknowledgment of his genius. Men felt that he had reached his convictions by the road of personal experience as well as of ardent intellectual toil, that he had taught himself before he took it upon himself to teach others, and that whatever value might be attributed to the message he delivered, there could be no shadow of doubt regarding its sincerity. Like Dr. Johnson, with whom, in spite of many points of dissimilarity, Carlyle had a great deal in common, his position was due to what he was as much as to what he had written. Johnson, an Englishman of Englishmen, a Tory and a Royalist, content to accept the teaching of the Church of England with scarcely a movement of doubt, was, as Carlyle himself discerned, gifted by nature for "the noblest of earthly tasks, that of Priesthood and guidance of mankind." 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 Masters of Literature Emerson Classic Reprint written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of Literature, Emerson Criticism is te-born with every generation, and in biography not less than in the domain of pure ideas will find new points of view on old topics. So it is that great men, like great stars, appear and te-appear, not, indeed, in regular procession, but as now one, now another represents a motif to which the mind of the age most deeply responds and though the greatest are like what we call the fixed stars, less variable, new eyes with new instruments will find perpetually in them fresh meaning. The best available estimate of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Lord Morley's - is now twenty seven years old, and it already fails in some degree to meet the needs of the youth of our own day, or, as they would say, to do full justice to its subject. When time has wrought changes of fashion, mental and social, the critic serves a useful turn in giving a poet or a teacher his true place, and in recovering ideas and points of view that are worth preserving. Inter pretation of this kind, thought the Morley of so long a quarter-century ago, Emerson cannot require. It is not, surely, any disrespect to this distinguished survivor of Victorian criticism to feel that the deep changes of mental as well as social fashion which have, in fact, been wrought in this period must modify more than one of his conclusions. The Victorian era is at an end; its giants, who exercised their wits by placing each other, lie dead together. We look at them from a different level, still too often through inherited glasses. 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 Masters of Literature written by Arthur James Grant and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of Literature: Scott IF posterity were to alter its verdict on the work of Walter Scott, and condemn Marmz'on and Waverley and Tfie Hedra' to oblivion, the man himself would still be one of the most interesting figures in the history of literature. For his life, as written by his son-in-law Lockhart, forms one of the few masterpieces of biography in English. It has nothing in common with Boswell's Lgfe of [012mm in style or method; but it gives a picture as full, as intimate, and as attractive as Boswell's portrait of his hero. There are probably no other English Men of Letters Of whom we have the same full knowledge that we have of these two. And in Scott's case the Life is supplemented by four volumes of his letters, and still more valuably by his Diary which he kept during the most critical and tragic part Of his career. There are controversies about details of his life, and affection for the man has probably unduly in fluenced opinion with regard to his share in the respon sibility for his firm's bankruptcy. But we may say of Scott, as we may say of very few men, that he is really known to us, and ourjudgment on his life and writings may be founded on full information. 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 Great Masters of Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century Classic Reprint written by Ernest Dupuy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Masters of Russian Literature in the Nineteenth Century But these trivialities, dressed in graceful idioms, are simply charming. To touch them, to analyze them, is like touching a soap-bubble. Fortunately, M. Dupuy has also all the Gallic acuteness and cleverness bf illus tration and, in spite of occasional glittering, illusive triteness, there is a solid basis of value, which remains even when the scintillations are dulled, when the iri descence is obscured by the veil of translation. His skill in giving the gist of a book is thoroughly characteristic and that, it is to be hoped, shines through the 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 Among the Great Masters of Literature written by Walter Rowlands and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Among the Great Masters of Literature: Scenes in the Lives of Great Authors 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 Master Classic Reprint written by Mrs. Mary Andrews Denison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Master A noble mind breathed in the features of the good musician (who already, at forty-seven, Seemed Old), and in enthusiasm for his art he was still a very boy. His ruddy cheeks, mous tache Of soft, curling hair, as snowy as his thick, white beard, his placid brow, his smile, which-was a fascination, the twinkle in his eye, - all de noted a character full of fine touches and tender melody, not wanting in humor, and a nature susceptible to a fault. 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 Masters of Capital written by John Moody and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Masters of Capital: A Chronicle of Wall Street by John Moody, first published in 1919, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Download or read book Masters of Literature Defoe Classic Reprint written by John Masefield and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Masters of Literature, Defoe Daniel De Foe, or Defoe, was born in London, in the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate, in the year 1661. His father, James Foe, a Dissenter of good family, was in business as a butcher in that parish. He was probably a very prosperous butcher. Nothing much is known of the little Daniel's childhood. The Plague visited London when he was three years old; but he was then too young "to take notice" of what was afterwards one of his most deep impressions. Even if he noticed the Fire, a few months later, it was probably less important to him than the breaking of a toy. The words "he may have'' are pleasant to the unimaginative. Little Daniel "may have" been in the country during both tragedies. The only facts known to us of his childhood are: (a) that he learned "from a boxing young English boy," probably at the cost of a bloody nose, not to strike his enemy when down; (b) that he copied out the Pentateuch in shorthand, so that he might have some holy writ of his own if, as was feared then, pious Charles II, taking to Popery, should prohibit the printed English Bible; and (c) that he drank the Bath waters about the year 1674. At the age of fourteen he was sent to study for the ministry at an academy at Newington Green, under "that polite and profound scholar," the Rev. Charles Morton, an ejected divine. 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 Master written by I. Zangwill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Master: A Novel Ah, but to see the world with other eyes than one's fellows, yet express the vision of one's race, its subconscious sense of beauty, is not all a covetable dower. 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.