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Book Synopsis American Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Washington Irving
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.
Book Synopsis Best American Essays (Classic Reprint) by : John R. Howard
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.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of American Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Brander Matthews
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.
Book Synopsis American Essays for the Newman Centennial (Classic Reprint) by : John Kenneth Ryan
Download or read book American Essays for the Newman Centennial (Classic Reprint) written by John Kenneth Ryan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Essays for the Newman Centennial Of making books upon any great figure there is no end. On the great artist, as on the great man, the last word can never be said. It is part of their greatness that they arouse other to imitate them in some measure. It is of their gift that they stimulate lesser minds to think, and that they silently encourage poorer men to speak and act. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light. 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.
Book Synopsis American Literary Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Lewis Leary
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 Many Minds written by Carl Van Doren and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Many Minds: Critical Essays on American Writers The work Of Mary Austin had been to discover that common ground and to prophesy its uses. Born in the Middle West, now apparently the center Of the nation's greatest energy, she lived her maturing years in a kind Of desert isolation in California. There she had her vision, there she found what she felt to be her place in the cosmic scheme. For all the toll the desert takes Of a man, she wrote in her first book, it gives. 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.
Book Synopsis The American of the Future by : Brander Matthews
Download or read book The American of the Future written by Brander Matthews and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American of the Future: And Other Essays One Monday in the spring of 1906 a New York morning paper recorded the fact that "ten thousand men, women and children, immigrants from all sections of the globe, were inside New York harbor before sundown yesterday, as many more were on big immigrant vessels reported off Sandy Hook and three times ten thousand on other vessels little more than two hundred miles from port. All told, at least fifty-two thousand immigrants will have reacht port by Thursday morning, the largest number that has yet come to New York at one time." The new-comers belonged to many different nationalities. Some came from Great Britain and Ireland; some from Germany and Austria; some from Russia and Poland; and more from Italy. The reporter noted that there were also a few French and a few Arabians. More than fifty thousand in four days! - and these were only the advance guard of the host that followed fast all thru the lengthening days of the spring months. 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.
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Book Synopsis The Glorious American Essay by : Phillip Lopate
Download or read book The Glorious American Essay written by Phillip Lopate and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.
Book Synopsis The Book of Peace by : American Peace Society
Download or read book The Book of Peace written by American Peace Society and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty four tracts, compiled and edited by George C. Beckwith, corresponding secretaty of the American Peace Society. Each tract is separately as well as consecutively paged.
Book Synopsis Stelligeri and Other Essays Concerning America (Classic Reprint) by : Barrett Wendell
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.
Book Synopsis Cause and Contrast by : T. W. Macmahon
Download or read book Cause and Contrast written by T. W. Macmahon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cause and Contrast: An Essay the American Crisis Peculiarly associated him with the industrial growth and development of the South, I am also obliged for kind atten. 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.
Book Synopsis Rip Van Winkle by : Washington Irving
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.
Book Synopsis The New American Type, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Henry Dwight Sedgwick
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.
Book Synopsis Present Day American Poetry, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) by : Harry Houston Peckham
Download or read book Present Day American Poetry, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Harry Houston Peckham and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Present Day American Poetry, and Other Essays We like poetry, even contemporary poetry; but we are not willing to admit it. Instead Of lauding our present-day bards, we assume an unbending attitude and declare that we hunger for really great poetry, but protest that the verses of our living writers are so puerile, so trivial that we cannot condescend to notice them. 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.
Book Synopsis American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political (Classic Reprint) by : Theodore Roosevelt
Download or read book American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political (Classic Reprint) written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from American Ideals, and Other Essays, Social and Political We feel that the doer is better than the critic and that the man who strives stands far above the man who stands aloof, whether he thus stands aloof because of pessimism or because of sheer weakness. To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that success can only come to the player who hits the line hard. 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.
Book Synopsis Essays in American History (Classic Reprint) by : Henry Ferguson
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.
