Author: Hjalmar Hjorth BoyesenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385466660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1892.
Idyls of Norway. And Other Poems
Author: Hjalmar Hjorth BoyesenPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385466660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1892.
An Idyl of Core Bank Station and Other Poems
Author: Robert Malcolm MorrisPublisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591609291
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (A-J)
Author: Charles Dudley WarnerPublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1605202487
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Popular American essayist, novelist, and journalist CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900) was renowned for the warmth and intimacy of his writing, which encompassed travelogue, biography and autobiography, fiction, and more, and influenced entire generations of his fellow writers. Here, the prolific writer turned editor for his final grand work, a splendid survey of global literature, classic and modern, and it's not too much to suggest that if his friend and colleague Mark Twain-who stole Warner's quip about how "everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it"-had assembled this set, it would still be hailed today as one of the great achievements of the book world. Volume 42 is Part One of a dictionary of authors-from Alexis Aar to Juvenal-that serves as a handy, condensed reference to the authors quoted in the first 40 volumes, as well as a guide to thousands more authors whose works are notable but not featured in this set.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: Biographical dictionary
Author: IDYLS OF NORWAY
Author: Hjalmar Hjorth 1848-1895 BoyesenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781362905431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
An American Anthology, 1787-1900
Author: Edmund Clarence StedmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Essays on Scandinavian Literature
Author: Hjalmar Hjorth BoyesenPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465507175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Björnstjerne Björnson is the first Norwegian poet who can in any sense be called national. The national genius, with its limitations as well as its virtues, has found its living embodiment in him. Whenever he opens his mouth it is as if the nation itself were speaking. If he writes a little song, hardly a year elapses before its phrases have passed into the common speech of the people; composers compete for the honor of interpreting it in simple, Norse-sounding melodies, which gradually work their way from the drawing-room to the kitchen, the street, and thence out over the wide fields and highlands of Norway. His tales, romances, and dramas express collectively the supreme result of the nation's experience, so that no one to-day can view Norwegian life or Norwegian history except through their medium. The bitterest opponent of the poet (for like every strong personality he has many enemies) is thus no less his debtor than his warmest admirer. His speech has stamped itself upon the very language and given it a new ring, a deeper resonance. His thought fills the air, and has become the unconscious property of all who have grown to manhood and womanhood since the day when his titanic form first loomed up on the horizon of the North. It is not only as their first and greatest poet that the Norsemen love and hate him, but also as a civilizer in the widest sense. But like Kadmus, in Greek myth, he has not only brought with him letters, but also the dragon-teeth of strife, which it is to be hoped will not sprout forth in armed men. A man's ancestry and environment, no doubt, account in a superficial manner for his appearance and mental characteristics. Having the man, we are able to trace the germs of his being in the past of his race and his country; but, with all our science we have not yet acquired the ingenuity to predict the man—to deduce him a priori from the tangle of determining causes which enveloped his birth. It seems beautifully appropriate in the Elder Edda that the god-descended hero Helge the Völsung should be born amid gloom and terror in a storm which shakes the house, while the Norns—the goddesses of fate—proclaim in the tempest his tempestuous career. Equally satisfactory it appears to have the modern champion of Norway—the typical modern Norseman—born on the bleak and wild Dovre Mountain, where there is winter eight months of the year and cold weather during the remaining four. The parish of Kvikne, in Oesterdalen, where his father, the Reverend Peder Björnson, held a living, had a bad reputation on account of the unruly ferocity and brutal violence of the inhabitants. One of the Reverend Peder Björnson's recent predecessors never went into his pulpit, unarmed; and another fled for his life. The peasants were not slow in intimating to the new pastor that they meant to have him mind his own business and conform to the manners and customs of the parish; but there they reckoned without their host. The reverend gentleman made short work of the opposition. He enforced the new law of compulsory education without heeding its unpopularity; and when the champion fighter of the valley came as the peasants' spokesman to take him to task in summary fashion, he found himself, before he was aware of it, at the bottom of the stairs, where he picked himself up wonderingly and promptly took to his heels.
Biennial Report
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
Report for 1871/1873-1903/1905 contains a list of additions to the miscellaneous and law departments.
Outlook
Author: Alfred Emanuel SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Through the Year with Famous Authors
Author: Mabel PattersonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"Through the Year with Famous Authors" by Mabel Patterson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.