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Letters, Fictions, Lives: Henry James and William Dean Howells

During this targeted and long-awaited quantity, Michael Anesko records the literary cross-fertilization among Henry James and William Dean Howells, amassing 151 letters, approximately all of the extant correspondence among the 2 males, in addition to the main major severe statement James wrote on Howells and Howells wrote on James.

Byron's Letters and Journals: A New Selection

Along Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron possesses a star-quality not like different vintage British authors. . His lifestyles as poet, philanderer, gay, and freedom fighter is known, and this new choice from his robust letters and journals tells the tale from the interior, in Byron's personal racy and passionate type.

An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (Oxford World's Classics)

Wickedly humorous and bitingly satirical, The paintings is a comedy of manners that provides insights into eighteenth-century habit in addition to the undying paintings of emotional abuse. it's also an suggestion publication, a instruction manual of anti-etiquette, and a comedy of manners. Collier describes tools for "teasing and mortifying" one's intimates and neighbors in quite a few social occasions.

Letters and Orations (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe)

By means of the tip of the 15th century, Cassandra Fedele (1465-1558), a discovered middle-class lady of Venice, used to be arguably the main recognized girl author and student in Europe. A cultural icon in her personal time, she on a regular basis corresponded with the king of France, lords of Milan and Naples, the Borgia pope Alexander VI, or even maintained a ten-year epistolary trade with Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain that ended in a call for participation for her to hitch their courtroom.