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The Art of Fiction
The Art of Fiction
Henry James
¥8.09
Classic essay from the collection "Partial Portraits". According to Wikipedia: "Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. But the book also offered treatments of Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev. Perhaps the most important essay was The Art of Fiction, James' plea for the widest possible freedom in content and technique in narrative fiction. The Art of Fiction was a response to remarks by English critic Walter Besant, who wrote an article that literally attempted to lay down the "laws of fiction." For instance, Besant insisted that novelists should confine themselves to their own experience: "A young lady brought up in a quiet country village should avoid descriptions of garrison life." James argued that a sufficiently alert novelist could catch knowledge from everywhere and use it to good purpose: "The young lady living in a village has only to be a damsel upon whom nothing is lost to make it quite unfair (as it seems to me) to declare to her that she shall have nothing to say about the military. Greater miracles have been seen than that, imagination assisting, she should speak the truth about some of these gentlemen." James continually argues for the fullest freedom in the novelist's choice of subject and method of treatment..."
The English Notebooks
The English Notebooks
Nathaniel Hawthorne
¥8.09
The author's notebooks. According to Wikipedia: ""Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Woodberry
¥8.09
According to Wikipedia: "George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (May 12, 1855–January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet… For twelve years, Woodberry was an almost constant writer to the literary portion of The Nation. He also, during Aldrich's editorship, was anonymously, and for this reason able, the more forcibly, to asser his critical strength in the Atlantic Monthly. He contributed one paper to the Fortnightly Review in 1882, and during 1888 wrote regularly, mostly upon literary topics, for the Boston Post. In 1891–1904 he was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1930 he was posthumously awarded one of the first three Frost Medals for lifetime achievement in poetry by the Poetry Society of America. He wrote a number of books as well."
Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac
Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac
Jessie Weston
¥8.09
First published in 1901. According to Wikipedia: "Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850–1928) was an independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts. Her best-known work is From Ritual to Romance (1920). In it she brought to bear an analysis harking back to James George Frazer on the Grail legend, arguing for origins earlier than the Christian or Celtic sources conventionally discussed at the time. It was cited by T. S. Eliot in his notes to The Waste Land. (He later claimed that the notes as a whole were ironic in intention, and the extent of Weston's actual influence on the poem is unclear. Eliot also indicated that the notes were requested by the publisher to bulk out the length of the poem in book form, calling them "bogus scholarship".) It also caused her to be dismissed as a theosophist by F. L. Lucas, in a hostile review of Eliot's poem. The interpretation of the Grail quest as mystical and connected to self-realisation, which she added to the anthropological layer of reading, was to become increasingly popular during the 1920s. According to Richard Barber in The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief, the Wasteland as theme in the Grail romances is of minor importance until the last works of the cycle, and the emphasis on fertility is "an interpretation which has haunted twentieth-century literature to a degree quite disproportionate to its basis in fact"... While Weston's work on the Grail theme has been derided as fanciful speculation in the years since the publication of From Ritual to Romance (even one-time supporter Roger Sherman Loomis eventually abandoned her hypothesis), her editions of numerous medieval romances have been commended as valuable translations"
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky (Illustrated)
Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky (Illustrated)
John S. C. Abbott
¥18.56
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not given the recognition they deserve. This biography clearly paints a picture of the benevolent person of Daniel Boone as well as the achievements he made in furthering European settlement in America.
Passages from the American Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Passages from the American Notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
¥8.09
The author's journals. Both volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 –1864) was an American novelist and short story writer... Much of Hawthorne's writing centers around New England and many feature moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism. His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. His published works include novels, short stories, and a biography of his friend Franklin Pierce."
Works of Schiller in English
Works of Schiller in English
Friedrich von Schiller
¥8.09
This collection includes: Life of Schiller by Calvin Thomas and such works by Schiller as Death of Wallenstein, William Tell, excerpts from The Thirty Years' War, poetry, and Correspondence with Goethe. The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 3, edited by Kuno Francke.
Hawthorne
Hawthorne
Henry James
¥8.09
Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Hawthorne’. ? Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction. The book became somewhat controversial for a famous section where James enumerated the items of novelistic interest he thought were absent from American life. ? Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. ? He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction. ? James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text must first and foremost be realistic and contain a representation of life that is recognizable to its readers. Good novels, to James, show life in action and are, most importantly, interesting. In addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel, biography, autobiography, and criticism, and wrote plays. James alternated between America and Europe for the first twenty years of his life; eventually he settled in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916.
Lotti ?r?ksége
Lotti ?r?ksége
Fábián Janka
¥75.54
Lotti ?r?ksége
Romana kül?nszám 59. k?tet
Romana kül?nszám 59. k?tet
Christina Hollis, Teresa Carpenter, Marion Lennox
¥42.92
Romana kül?nszám 59. k?tet
Romana 529. (Botcsinálta hercegn?)
Romana 529. (Botcsinálta hercegn?)
Nancy Robards Thompson
¥18.56
Romana 529. (Botcsinálta hercegn?)
Romana 530. (Tengerparti romantika)
Romana 530. (Tengerparti romantika)
Margaret Barker
¥18.56
Romana 530. (Tengerparti romantika)
Júlia 537. (Szerelemt?l részegen)
Júlia 537. (Szerelemt?l részegen)
Kate Hardy
¥18.56
Júlia 537. (Szerelemt?l részegen)
Romana 527. (Szerelmem a szomszédom)
Romana 527. (Szerelmem a szomszédom)
Carol Grace
¥18.56
Romana 527. (Szerelmem a szomszédom)
Ha elhagysz
Ha elhagysz
Courtney Cole
¥75.86
Ha elhagysz
Romana 528. (Hazudj, ha mersz!)
Romana 528. (Hazudj, ha mersz!)
Margaret Way
¥18.56
Romana 528. (Hazudj, ha mersz!)
Romana kül?nszám 58. k?tet
Romana kül?nszám 58. k?tet
Chantelle Shaw, Margaret Way, Cathy Williams
¥42.92
Romana kül?nszám 58. k?tet
Az eln?kasszony: A bundás választás
Az eln?kasszony: A bundás választás
Homonnay Gergely
¥63.85
Az eln?kasszony: A bundás választás
Rose regénye
Rose regénye
Fábián Janka
¥113.39
Rose regénye
Szívhang kül?nszám 38. k?tet
Szívhang kül?nszám 38. k?tet
Margaret Barker, Caroline Anderson, Anne Fraser
¥42.92
Szívhang kül?nszám 38. k?tet
Júlia 528. (Helyettesb?l igazi)
Júlia 528. (Helyettesb?l igazi)
Carole Mortimer
¥18.56
Júlia 528. (Helyettesb?l igazi)