Author: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108069568
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Published in 1883, this two-volume work sheds light on an author who was outsold only by Dickens in his lifetime.
The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton
Author: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108069568
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Published in 1883, this two-volume work sheds light on an author who was outsold only by Dickens in his lifetime.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108069568
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Published in 1883, this two-volume work sheds light on an author who was outsold only by Dickens in his lifetime.
Letters and Speeches
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
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The Letters of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. Sutton
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Bulwer Lytton
Author: Leslie Mitchell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826421660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since the First World War, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. It ranged from novels, such as The Last Days of Pompeii, and poetry to plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, he lived life in London, at Knebworth, his country house, or more frequently abroad, with hectic intensity. Arousing strong emotions in public, his private life was turbulent in the extreme; his acrimonious and bitter divorce from his wife Rosina providing one of the most public and prolonged marital disputes of the period. Despite this, he became Secretary for the Colonies in 1858 and was responsible for the setting up of Queensland. Leslie Mitchell's biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer Lytton's birth, is an account of an eminent and very remarkable Victorian.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0826421660
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since the First World War, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. It ranged from novels, such as The Last Days of Pompeii, and poetry to plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, he lived life in London, at Knebworth, his country house, or more frequently abroad, with hectic intensity. Arousing strong emotions in public, his private life was turbulent in the extreme; his acrimonious and bitter divorce from his wife Rosina providing one of the most public and prolonged marital disputes of the period. Despite this, he became Secretary for the Colonies in 1858 and was responsible for the setting up of Queensland. Leslie Mitchell's biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer Lytton's birth, is an account of an eminent and very remarkable Victorian.
Henry Adams, Selected Letters
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674387577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Ernest Samuels's Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography. Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams, his letters--more intimate and unbuttoned, though hardly unselfconscious--are themselves indispensable for an understanding of the man and his times. This selection, the first based on the authoritative 6-volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time. Adams knew everyone who was anyone and went almost everywhere, and--true to the Adams family tradition--recorded it all. These letters to an array of correspondents from American presidents to Henry James to 5-year-old honorary nieces reveal Adams's passion for politics and disdain for politicians, his snobbish delight in society and sincere affection for friends, his pose of dilettantism and his serious ambitions as writer and historian, his devastation at his wife's suicide and his acquiescence in the role of Elizabeth Cameron's "tame cat," his wicked humor at others' expense and his own reflexive self-depreciation. This volume allows the reader to experience 19th-century America through the eyes of an observer on whom very little was lost, and to make the acquaintance of one of the more interesting personalities in American letters. As Ernest Samuels says in his introduction, "The letters lift the veil of old-age disenchantment that obscures the Education and exhibit Adams as perhaps the most brilliant letter writer of his time. What most engages one in the long course of his correspondence is the tireless range of his intellectual curiosity, his passionate effort to understand the politics, the science, and the human society of the world as it changed around him... It is as literature of a high order that his letters can finally be read."
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674387577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Ernest Samuels's Pulitzer Prize-winning, multi-volume work on Henry Adams is now a compact, updated, one-volume biography. Henry Adams has been called an indispensable figure in American thought. Although he famously "took his own life" in the autobiographical Education of Henry Adams, his letters--more intimate and unbuttoned, though hardly unselfconscious--are themselves indispensable for an understanding of the man and his times. This selection, the first based on the authoritative 6-volume Letters, represents every major private and public event in Adams's life from 1858 to 1918 and confirms his reputation as one of the greatest letter writers of his time. Adams knew everyone who was anyone and went almost everywhere, and--true to the Adams family tradition--recorded it all. These letters to an array of correspondents from American presidents to Henry James to 5-year-old honorary nieces reveal Adams's passion for politics and disdain for politicians, his snobbish delight in society and sincere affection for friends, his pose of dilettantism and his serious ambitions as writer and historian, his devastation at his wife's suicide and his acquiescence in the role of Elizabeth Cameron's "tame cat," his wicked humor at others' expense and his own reflexive self-depreciation. This volume allows the reader to experience 19th-century America through the eyes of an observer on whom very little was lost, and to make the acquaintance of one of the more interesting personalities in American letters. As Ernest Samuels says in his introduction, "The letters lift the veil of old-age disenchantment that obscures the Education and exhibit Adams as perhaps the most brilliant letter writer of his time. What most engages one in the long course of his correspondence is the tireless range of his intellectual curiosity, his passionate effort to understand the politics, the science, and the human society of the world as it changed around him... It is as literature of a high order that his letters can finally be read."
Autobiography & Letters of Charles Merivale
Author: Charles Merivale
Publisher: Oxford : Printed for private circulation by H. Hart
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : Printed for private circulation by H. Hart
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, 1845-1846
Author: Robert Browning
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold
Author: Clinton Machann
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349115851
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349115851
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.
Monthly Book Circular
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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