Author: Giovanni RuffiniPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Paragreens on a Visit to Paris by John Ruffini
Author: Giovanni RuffiniA European Version of Victorian Fiction
Author: Allan Conrad ChristensenPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004648224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
In this first systematic assessment of Ruffini's literary achievement, the seven novels that are apparently so different from each other emerge as an aesthetically coherent and individualized contribution to the mid-Victorian fictional canon. Composed in English by an Italian exile resident in Paris, they describe interactions among men and women of many nationalities and trace interesting European journeys and pilgrimages during the early days of mass tourism. While thus documenting such phenomena as expanding rail networks, holiday resorts and health spas, the novels dramatize, more importantly, the inadequacy of narrowly local and intolerant perspectives. The protagonists must gain a broadly cosmopolitan vision and sense of mutuality as they pursue the common quest for self-integration and for a purpose in life. A patriotic commitment like that which had engaged Ruffini in his youthful Mazzinian phase cannot now offer that purpose, and the narratives convey strong scepticism about other ideals, such as romantic love, too. More positively the stories contain many dedicated physicians, who practice a holistic medicine and who thereby substitute for the often sinister priests of a corrupt religious establishment. Ministering to the humanity that Ruffini typically portrays as sick or wounded and tormented by misanthropy and guilt, they are the chief mitigators of the bleakness of the modern condition.
The Paragreens on a Visit to the Paris Universal Exhibition. By the Author of “Lorenzo Benoni,” and “Doctor Antonio” [G. D. Ruffini]. With Illustrations by John Leech
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Author: The Salmon
Author: Alex RusselPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Forest Sketches
Author: William RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deer hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Travels
Author: Sir Charles Cavendish Clifford (bart.)Publisher:
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Category : Iceland
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Sermons preached at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Edinburgh
Author: Charles Hughes TERROT (Bishop of Edinburgh and Primus of the Episcopal Church of Scotland.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Forest-sketches Deer-stalking and Other Sports in the Highland 50 Years Ago
Author: William II RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Catalogue of books belonging to the library of the British factory, St. Petersburg
Author: Leningrad Brit. factory, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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