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Essays in Little
By Andrew Lang.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte, Volume 1
By Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell.
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
By Henry Festing Jones.
Washington Irving
By Charles Dudley Warner.
As We Go
By Charles Dudley Warner.
The Divine Comedy, Purgatory
By Dante Alighieri, H. F. Cary.
The Bridge-Builders
By Rudyard Kipling.
Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays
By Thomas Henry Huxley.
CliffsNotes on Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
By Larocque Dubose, Estelle Dubose. 1971
This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is…
feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale.Moral Emblems
By Robert Louis Stevenson.
African American Writers and Journalists (Major Black Contributions from Emancipat)
By Mary Hertz Scarbrough. 2013
African-American Writers and Journalists spans nearly three centuries of literary and journalistic history, from a long-unpublished ballad composed in the…
1740s by a slave named Lucy Terry to the works of the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. It tells the stories of figures such as Frederick Douglass, whose towering intellect and powerful prose helped animate the movement to abolish slavery; Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, journalists who risked their lives to report on racial violence and injustice; and Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright, who challenged society with hard questions about race and equality.Vernacular Translation in Dante's Italy: Illiterate Literature
By Alison Cornish. 2011
Translation and commentary are often associated with institutions and patronage; but in Italy around the time of Dante, widespread vernacular…
translation was mostly on the spontaneous initiative of individuals. While Dante is usually the starting point for histories of vernacular translation in Europe, this book demonstrates that The Divine Comedy places itself in opposition to a vast vernacular literature already in circulation among its readers. Alison Cornish explores the anxiety of vernacularization as expressed by translators and contemporary authors, the prevalence of translation in religious experience, the role of scribal mediation, the influence of the Italian reception of French literature on that literature, and how translating into the vernacular became a project of nation-building only after its virtual demise during the Humanist period. Vernacular translation was a phenomenon with which all authors in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Europe - from Brunetto Latini to Giovanni Boccaccio - had to contend.Ferragus
By Honore De Balzac, Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
The Friendly Road
By David Grayson.
Life of Bunyan
By James Hamilton.
After the pleasant sketches of pens so graceful as Southey's and Montgomery's; after the elaborate biography of Mr Philip, whose…
researches have left few desiderata for any subsequent devotee; indeed, after Bunyan's own graphic and characteristic narrative, the task on which we are now entering is one which, as we would have courted it the less, so we feel that we have peculiar facilities for performing it. Our main object is to give a simple and coherent account ofThe Begotten (Gifted #1)
By Lisa Tawn Bergren. 2006
At the height of the Inquisition, a secret half a millennium old is about to be exposed-a lost letter said…
to have been written by Paul and part of what was to become the foundation of the Christian canon. It speaks of men and women-the Gifted-with mysterious spiritual gifts that struck fear in the heart of the Church. Now the letter has surfaced. The Gifted ones are coming together. Their prophecy is coming true.Women in the Life of Balzac
By Juanita H. Floyd.
CliffsNotes on Tartt's The Goldfinch
By Abigail Wheetley. 2016
CliffsNotes on Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, includes everything you've come to expect…
from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including summaries and analyses of Tartt's sprawling novel. Features of this Lit Note includeFocused summaries of the plot and analysis of important themes, symbols, and character developmentCharacter analyses of major characters, focusing on what motivates each characterBrief synopsis of the novelShort quizThe Elizabethan Country House Entertainment
By Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich. 2016
This is the first full-length critical study of country house entertainment, a genre central to late Elizabethan politics. It shows…
how the short plays staged for the Queen at country estates like Kenilworth Castle and Elvetham shaped literary trends and intervened in political debates, including whether women made good politicians and what roles the church and local culture should play in definitions of England. In performance and print, country house entertainments facilitated political negotiations, rethought gender roles, and crafted regional and national identities. In its investigation of how the hosts used performances to negotiate local and national politics, the book also sheds light on how and why such entertainments enabled female performance and authorship at a time when English women did not write or perform commercial plays. Written in a lively and accessible style, this is fascinating reading for scholars and students of early modern literature, theatre, and women's history.Verdi's Shakespeare
By Garry Wills. 2011
A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare,…
Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: Macbeth, Othello, and Falstaff. An Italian composer who couldn't read a word of English but adored Shakespeare, Verdi devoted himself to operatic productions that authentically incorporated the playwright's texts. Wills delves into the fast-paced worlds of these men of the theater, focusing on the intense working relationships both Shakespeare and Verdi had with the performers and producers of their works. We see Verdi study the Shakespearean dramaturgy as he obsessively corresponds with his chosen librettists, handpicks the singers he feels are best- suited to the roles, and coaches them intensely. With fascinating portraits of these artistic giants and their entourages, sharp insights into music and theater, and telling historical details, Verdi's Shakespeare re-creates the conditions that allowed Verdi to complete his masterworks and illuminates the very nature of artistic creation. .