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Queen of the Sea
A dramatic and intimate portrait of one of the world's great cities.
The Geography of Strabo Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...Aimti. " And JEglele Anaphe, close to the Lacedcemonian Thera; " and in another, he mentions Thera only, "Mother of my country, celebrated for its fine breed of horses." Thera is a long island, about 200 stadia in circumference. It lies opposite to the island Dia,1 towards the Cnossian Hera-cleium. It is distant about 700 stadia from Crete. Near it are Anaphe and Therasia.2 The little island los3 is distant from the latter about 100 stadia. Here according to some author...
Baudelaire and Freud
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.
Le Sauteriot
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Three Masters: Balzac, Dickens, Dostoevsky
In these early 20th century literary essays, Stefan Zweig offers a Central European view of the writers he believed to be the “three greatest novelists” of the 19th century: Balzac, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. In Zweig’s view, Balzac set out to emulate his childhood hero Napoleon. Writing 20 hours a day, Balzac’s literary ambition was “tantamount to monomania in its persistence, its intensity, and its concentration.” His characters, each similarly driven by one desperate urge, were more vital to Balzac than people in his daily life. In Zweig’s reading, Dickens embodied Victorian England and its “bourgeois smugness”. His characters aspire to “A few hundred pounds a year, an a...
