Amenities Of Literature Vol 1 Of 2

Author : Isaac Disraeli
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364850787
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Amenities of Literature, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Isaac Disraeli and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Amenities of Literature, Vol. 1 of 2: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature A history of our vernacular literature has occupied my studies for many years. It was my design not to furnish an arid of books or of authors but following the steps of the human mind through the Wide track of Time, to trace from their beginnings the rise, the progress, and the decline of public opinions, and to illustrate, as the objects presented themselves, the great incidents in our national annals. In the progress of these researches many topics pref sented themselves, some of which, from their novelty and curiosity, courted investigation. Literary history, in this enlarged circuit, becomes not merely a philological history of critical erudition, but ascends into a philosophy of books, where their subjects, their tendency, and their immediate or gradual influence over the people discover their actual condition. 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.