Author: John ERSKINE (6th Earl of Mar.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 4
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To His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans: A Memorial touching the Interest of France, with respect to Scotland, England and Ireland. (A son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans: Memoire sur l'interet de la France, par rapport à l'Ecosse, à l'Angleterre & à l'Irlande.) Eng. & Fr
Author: John ERSKINE (6th Earl of Mar.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
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Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
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Memoire[s] a Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le duc d'Orleans
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Author: Philippe Orléans (duc d')Publisher:
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Category : Gallicanism
Languages : fr
Pages : 48
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Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston Lord Wariston 1639
Author: Archibald JohnstonNew Orleans, 1718-1812
Author: John Garretson ClarkPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455609291
Category : New Orleans (La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Mémoire Présenté À Son Altesse Royale Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orleans, Regent Du Royaume de France
Author: Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston, Lord Wariston. 1639
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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My Memoirs (1802 to 1833)
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465593535
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4782
Book Description
There is no real biography of Alexandre Dumas. Nobody has collected and sifted all his correspondence, tracked his every movement, and pursued him through newspapers and legal documents. Letters and other papers (if they have been preserved) should be as abundant in the case of Dumas as they are scanty in the case of Molière. But they are left to the dust of unsearched offices; and it is curious that in France so little has been systematically written about her most popular if not her greatest novelist. Many treatises on one or other point in the life and work of Dumas exist, but there is nothing like Boswell's Johnson or Lockhart's Scott. TheMémoires by the novelist himself cover only part of his career, Les Enfances Dumas; and they bear the same resemblance to a serious conscientious autobiography as Vingt Ans Après bears to Mr. Gardiner's History of England. They contain facts, indeed, but facts beheld through the radiant prismatic fancy of the author, who, if he had a good story to tell, dressed it up "with a cocked hat and a sword," as was the manner of an earlier novelist. The volumes of travel, and the delightful work on Dumas's domestic menagerie,Mes Bêtes, also contain personal confessions, as does the novel, Ange Pitou, with the Causeries, and other books. Fortunately Dumas wrote most about his early life, and the early life of most people is more interesting than the records of their later years. In its limitation to his years of youth, the Mémoires of Dumas resemble that equally delightful book, the long autobiographical fragment by George Sand. Both may contain much Dichtung as well as Wahrheit: at least we see the youth of the great novelists as they liked to see it themselves. The Mémoires, with Mes Bêtes, possess this advantage over most of the books, that the most crabbed critic cannot say that Dumas did not write them himself. In these works, certainly, he was unaided by Maquet or any other collaborator. They are all his own, and the essential point of note is that they display all the humour, the goodness of heart, the overflowing joy in life, which make the charm of the novels. Here, unmixed, unadulterated, we have that essence of Dumas with which he transfigured the tame "copy" drawn up by Maquet and others under his direction. He told them where to find their historical materials, he gave them the leading ideas of the plot, told them how to block out the chapters, and then he took these chapters and infused into them his own spirit, the spirit which, in its pure shape, pervades every page of the Mémoires. They demonstrate that, while he received mechanical aid from collaborators, took from their hands the dry bones of his romances, it was he who made the dry bones live. He is now d'Artagnan, now Athos, now Gorenflot, now Chicot,—all these and many other personages are mere aspects of the immortal, the creative Alexandre.
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland
Author: John ClelandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108602363
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 535
Book Description
The first collected edition of John Cleland's correspondence, this volume provides a rare insight into a significant literary life and into jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. All known letters by and to Cleland are included entire, alongside letter excerpts, diary entries and documents in which he is discussed by friends, enemies, family members and distant acquaintances. The volume also includes Cleland's christening record, a manuscript essay composed by Cleland in French on 'Litterateurs', and the will of Cleland's mother Lucy, whose many codicils reveal her determination to prevent her profligate son from squandering her fortune. Interspersed throughout are telling remarks about Cleland from figures such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Foote, Claude-Pierre Patu, and, most revealing and intriguing of all, vignettes by the great biographer James Boswell. The volume makes several new attributions and demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland's participation in the European Enlightenment.