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Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 014044405X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 396
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michèle Longino Farrell
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780874515374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benedetta Craveri
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781590172148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow in paperback, an award-winning look at French salons and the women who presided over them In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, between the reign of Louis XIII and the Revolution, French aristocratic society developed an art of living based on a refined code of good manners. Conversation, which began as a way of passing time, eventually became the central ritual of social life. In the salons, freed from the rigidity of court life, it was women who dictated the rules and presided over exchanges among socialites, writers, theologians, and statesmen. They contributed decisively to the development of the modern French language, new literary forms, and debates over philosophical and scientific ideas. With a cast of characters both famous and unknown, ranging from the Marquise de Rambouillet to Madame de Sta‘l, and including figures like Ninon de Lenclos, the Marquise de Sevigne, and Madame de Lafayette, as well as Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Diderot, and Voltaire, Benedetta Craveri traces the history of this worldly society that carried the art of sociability to its supreme perfection–and ultimately helped bring on the Revolution that swept it all away.
Author: Thomas Mallon
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-11-10
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0307378640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful investigation of the art of letter writing, Yours Ever explores masterpieces dispatched through the ages by messenger, postal service, and BlackBerry. Here are Madame de Sévigné’s devastatingly sharp reports from the French court, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s tormented advice to his young daughter, the casually brilliant musings of Flannery O’Connor, the lustful boastings of Lord Byron, and the prison cries of Sacco and Vanzetti, all accompanied by Thomas Mallon’s own insightful commentary. From battlefield confessions to suicide notes, fan letters to hate mail, Yours Ever is an exuberant reintroduction to a vast and entertaining literature—a book that will help to revive, in the digital age, this glorious lost art.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2017-02-16
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1473363071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1932, “A Letter to a Young Poet” is an essay by Virginia Woolf. Written in epistolary form, it is a response to the writer John Lehman's request for Woolf to explain her views on contemporary poetry. A fascinating insight into the mind of one of England's greatest feminist writers not to be missed by fans and collectors of her seminal work. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder. In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. Contents include: “Virginia Woolf”, “Craftsmanship - BBC Broadcast on April 20th, 1937”, and “A Letter to a Young Poet - First Published in the Yale Review, June 1932”. Read & Co. Great Essays is republishing this classic essay now in a brand new edition complete with Woolf's essay “Craftsmanship”.
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780140444056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV
Author: Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780877455776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores Virginia Woolf's affinity with the early modern period and her sense of being reborn as writer and reader through the creation of an alternative tradition of reading and writing whose roots go back to the Elizabethans and beyond. The author, a Fellow in English at Girton College, Cambridge, critiques Woolf's ideas through a discussion of particular writers--Montaigne, Donne, Pepys and Bunyan, Dorothy Osborne and Madame de Sevigne. She considers the forms traditionally associated with women, such as the essay, the personal letter and diary, in the context of printing, the body, and the relationship between amateurs and professionals. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Thornton Niven Wilder
Publisher: Aegitas
Published: 2022-12-19
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 0369408888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story is based on a fictional disaster that occurred in Peru on July 20, 1714. A rope bridge woven by the Incas on the road between Lima and Cuzco collapsed when five people were crossing it. They all fell into the river from a great height and were killed. Brother Juniper, a Franciscan friar who was about to cross the bridge himself, witnessed the tragedy. Being deeply pious, he saw in what happened a possible divine providence. Did the dead deserve to have their lives cut short in such a terrible way? The monk tries to learn as much as he can about the five victims, finding and questioning people who knew them. As a result of years of investigation, he compiles a voluminous book with all the evidence he has gathered that the beginning and end of human life are part of God's plan... The Bridge of San Luis Rey won the 1928 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and remains widely acclaimed as Wilder's most famous work. In 1998, the book was rated number 37 by the editorial board of the American Modern Library on the list of the 100 best 20th-century novels. Time magazine included the novel in its TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.
Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
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Published: 1859
Total Pages: 438
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