Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Author: George E. Haggerty
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611480116
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 189

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In looking closely at Horace Walpole's Correspondence, George E. Haggerty shows how these letters, when taken in aggregate, offer an astonishingly vivid account of the vagaries of eighteenth-century masculinity. Walpole talks about himself obsessively: his wants, his needs, his desires; hies physical and mental pain; his artistic appreciation and his critical responses. It is impossible to read these letters and not come away with a vivid impression of a complex personality from another age. Haggerty examines the ways in which Walpole presents himself as an eighteenth-century gentleman, and considers his personal relationships, his needs and aspirations, his emotionalism and his rationality - in short, his construction of himself - in order to see what it tells us about the age in general and more specifically, about masculinity in an era of social flux. This study of Walpole and his epistolary relations offers a unique window into both the history of masculinity in the eighteenth century and the codification of friendship as the preeminent value in western culture. Recent studies have tried to rewrite Walpole in a twenty-first century mold while this work looks at the writer and the ways in which he constructs himself and his relations, not in hopes of uncovering a lurid secret, but rather in pursuit of the figure that he created and that has fascinated generations of readers and writers since the eighteenth century.

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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"Hieroglyphic Tales" is a collection of enchanting stories written by the renowned author Horace Walpole. This book explores various cultures and eras with its six intriguing tales, including Arabian Nights, Chinese fairy tales, and Milesian tales. Each story is unique and captivating, full of imagination and fantasy. The book contains the following stories: A New Arabian Night's Entertainment - The King and his Three Daughters - The Dice-Box. A Fairy Tale - The Peach in Brandy. A Milesian Tale - Mi Li. A Chinese Fairy Tale - A True Love Story.

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher: London : Printed for J. Dodsley
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Anna Chalcraft
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711231849
Category : Architecture, Gothic
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A room-by-room tour of one of the wonders of the eighteenth-century architectural world

Author: Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521152198
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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This informative volume provides a historical study of the library belonging to eighteenth-century man of letters Horace Walpole (1717-1797).

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Author: Helene Hanff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140089365
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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This memoir tells the remarkable story of how Helene Hanff came to write 84, Charing Cross Road, and how its success changed her. Hanff recalls her serendipitous discovery of a volume of lectures by a Cambridge don, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. She devoured Q’s book, and, wanting to read all the books he recommended, began to order them from a small store in London at 84, Charing Cross Road. Thus began a correspondence that became an enormously popular book, play, television production, and movie, and that finally led to the trip to England -- and a visit to Q’s study -- that she recounts in this exuberant memoir. Hanff pays her debt to her mentor and shares her joyous adventures with her many fans. "Reading Helene Hanff’s book is like making a new friend -- a charming, wise, and funny one." -- Betty Rollin "A potpourri . . . easy and assured . . . A delightful companion for the odd hour." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Hanff’s charm is such that when she exults . . . we exult right along with her." -- Kirkus Reviews

Author: Horace Walpole
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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