Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002

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Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002

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Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236

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Author: Marie De Rabutin-Chantal Sevigne
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ISBN: 9781331114932
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Excerpt from The Letters of Madame De Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends The Editress has set forth so fully, in the introductory sketch of Madame de Sevigne's Life and Times, her object in offering this book to the American public, that any further prologue may seem superfluous; yet there are one or two things to be said which seem to find their most proper expression in a Preface. Since the date of the first edition, the changes in the manners and feelings of the time have been rapid and continuous; and they have operated in a twofold manner. In the first place, we have become as a nation more thoroughly acquainted with French literature, and better able to appreciate that world of the past in which the great letter-writer lived. Madame de Sevigne was a woman who lived in and for others, - for her daughter, her friends, and, at a greater distance, for the brilliant circle of distinguished men and women of which she herself was so important a figure. Her letters are made up of incident, of meetings, of conversations: they are full of references to the topics then uppermost; they draw half their charm from the personality of the writer. Literature of this sort cannot stand alone. To enjoy it to the full we must know with some minuteness the history of the times in which it was written, and of the people to whom it was written. The knowledge of these things is now spreading wider every year, as we become familiar, through originals or translations, with the masterpieces of foreign languages. For instance, probably the best French sketch of Madame de Sevigne is from the pen of M. Sainte-Beuve, the great critic whom Mr. Arnold acknowledges for his master. 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."

Author: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014044405X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Describes the social and intellectual life of seventeenth-century France, including gossip about the court of King Louis XIV

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432

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Author: T. Bose
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844817
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 569

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The Colbeck collection was formed over half a century ago by the Bournemouth bookseller Norman Colbeck. Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works. Entries are alphabetically arranged by author with copious notes on the condition and binding of each copy. Nine appendices provide listings of selected periodicals, series publications, anthologies, yearbooks, and topical works.

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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