Author: William ShenstonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Essays on men and manners
Author: William ShenstoneTable Talk
Author: William HazlittPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331598599
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Excerpt from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners Death, old age, are words without a meaning, a dream, a fiction, with which we have nothing to do. Others may have undergone, or may still undergo them - we bear a charmed life, which laughs to scorn all such idle fancies. As, in setting out on a de lightful journey, we strain our eager sight forward. 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.
Table Talk
Author: William HazlittWilliam Hazlitt
Author: John Boynton PriestleyPublisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN: 0746307454
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
William Hazlitt was a brilliant and perceptive essayist and critic in the early 19th Century whose critical impressions of his contemporaries and their work gave a sense of an age and the leading figures who populated it in a particularly vivid way.
Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1694
Book Description
Catalog of Reprints in Series
Author: Robert Merritt OrtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Oxford University Press
Author: Oxford University PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Hall of Uselessness
Author: Simon LeysPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176383
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of the way we live now. The Hall of Uselessness is the most extensive collection of Leys’s essays to be published to date. In it, he addresses subjects ranging from the Chinese attitude to the past to the mysteries of Belgium and Belgitude; offers portraits of André Gide and Zhou Enlai; takes on Roland Barthes and Christopher Hitchens; broods on the Cambodian genocide; reflects on the spell of the sea; and writes with keen appreciation about writers as different as Victor Hugo, Evelyn Waugh, and Georges Simenon. Throughout, The Hall of Uselessness is marked with the deep knowledge, skeptical intelligence, and passionate conviction that have made Simon Leys one of the most powerful essayists of our time.
General Catalogue
Author: Oxford University PressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Masscult and Midcult
Author: Dwight MacdonaldPublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174682
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of America’s susceptibility to well-meaning cultural fakery: all those estimable, eminent, prizewinning works of art that are said to be good and good for you and are not. He dubbed this phenomenon “Midcult” and he attacked it not only on aesthetic but on political grounds. Midcult rendered people complacent and compliant, secure in their common stupidity but neither happy nor free. This new selection of Macdonald’s finest essays, assembled by John Summers, the editor of The Baffler, reintroduces a remarkable American critic and writer. In the era of smart, sexy, and everything indie, Macdonald remains as pertinent and challenging as ever.