Selected Writings on Art and Literature

Author	William Beckford
ISBN	0192836560

An odd book, and not a completely successful one. I cannot deny it a wealth of ironic observation and an elegant style, but I believe the author indulges his hobbies and obsessions--his Orientalism, his ephebophilia, his loathing of his mother and other termagants--to an extent that distorts...

Author	George Sand
ISBN	2266089404

Landry et Sylvain sont jumeaux. Un jour, une certaine petite Fadette surgit d'on ne sait où, vient troubler l'existence de ces fils de riches cultivateurs. Qui choisira t-elle entre les deux frères à la fois si complices et si différents ?. Au-delà de la simple intrigue romanesque, l'auteur nous...

Author	René Descartes
ISBN	0872201929

Meditationes de prima philosophia = Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy is a philosophical treatise written by René Descartes first published in Latin in 1641. The book is made up of six meditations, in which Descartes first discards all belief...

Author	Friedrich Schiller
ISBN	0486437396

“Essential reading.” — New Society.
A classic of eighteenth-century thought, Friedrich Schiller’s treatise on the role of art in society ranks among German philosophy’s most profound works. In addition to its importance to the history of ideas, this 1795 essay remains relevant...

Author	Michel de Montaigne
ISBN	2080702106

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...

Author	George Sand
ISBN	1406800333

Although it is much less popular today and is now confined more to genre fiction, melodrama is still a major literary form today. George Sand (real name: Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin) was not only one of the great writers of the nineteenth century but perhaps one of the high water marks of melodrama.

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