The Book Of Romance Classic Reprint
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The Book Of Romance Classic Reprint
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Author : Andrew Lang
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-10-10
The Book Of Romance Classic Reprint written by Andrew Lang and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-10 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from The Book of Romance IT is to be supposed that children do not read Prefaces these are Bluebeard's rooms, which they are not curious to unlock. A few words may therefore be said about the Romances contained in this book. In the editor's Opinion, romances are only fairy tales grown up. The whole mass of the plot and incident of romance was invented by nobody knows who, nobody knows when, nobody knows where. Almost every people has the Cinderella story, with all sorts Of variations a boy hero in place Of a girl heroine, a beast in place of a fairy godmother, and so on. The Zunis, an agricultural tribe of New Mexico, have a version in which the moral turns out to be against poor Cinderella, who comes to an ill end. The Red Indians have the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, told in a very touching shape, but without the music. On the other hand, the negroes in the States have the Orpheus tale, adapted to plantation life, in a form which is certainly borrowed from Europeans. This version was sent to me some years ago, by Mr. Barnet Phillips, Brooklyn, New York, and I give it here for its curiosity. If the proper names, Jim Orpus and Dicey, had not been given, we might not feel absolutely certain that the story was borrowed. It is a good example of adaptation from the heroic age of Greece to the servile age Of Africans. 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.
A Wonder Book Of Old Romance Classic Reprint
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Author : F. J. Harvey Darton
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-08-24
A Wonder Book Of Old Romance Classic Reprint written by F. J. Harvey Darton and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-24 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from A Wonder Book of Old Romance The criticism was perfectly true, from a literary point of view. The older romances were for the most part of small poetic merit, while their construe tion was often ill-balanced and digressive. There is hardly one of the features dwelt upon by Chaucer which cannot be paralleled in them. Sir Topaz was a knight fair and gent; so were Sir Guy, Sir Bevis, and the rest of them. He came to a wood where was many a wild beast, both buck and hare: those ferocious creatures pastured there, apparently, because the poet had to fill up a line somehow, much as the author of Sir Bevis, anticipating King Lear, was forced to help out his metre with rats and mice and such small deer. Sir Topaz wore a breech and eke a shirt; his face was as white as the finest bread; he had a seemly nose: in like manner every detail of clothing, figure, and armour, relevant or irrelevant, is dwelt on in the old romances. He pricked over stile and stone, in his quest for the elf-queen, with ease, rapidity, and an absence of adventure; so too Amys journeys many days to seek Amylion, without, so far as the poet tells us, any accident or any ordinary occurrence of daily life except a feeling of great fatigue. 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.
Romance Classic Reprint
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Author : W. P. Ker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-10
Romance Classic Reprint written by W. P. Ker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-10 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from Romance The eighteenth century is generally supposed to have been anti-romantic in literature, through the revolution in taste which is described by Hurd in his Letters on Chivalry and Romance (1762): 'Henceforth, the taste of wit and poetry took a new turn, and the Muse who had wandered so long in the world of fiction was now constrained against her will - To stoop with disenchanted wings to truth, as Sir John Denham somewhere expresses her present enforced state, not unhappily. What we have gotten by this revolution, you will say, is a great deal of good sense. What we have lost is a world of fine fabling.' It could not be put better than this, the difference between the two ages - Spenser and Pope. It is an historical judgement that really describes a real difference, and the judgement is all the more significant because it is uttered by a man who is living in the middle of what he describes, who belongs as an eighteenth-century literary man to a world of good sense - a world which is thus conscious of itself, and able to describe itself. What Hurd says in the lifetime of Dr. Johnson could not be improved by any one writing in a later age with all the opportunities for comparison and revision of judgement that are afforded by later revolutions in taste. Hurd is one of the chief advocates of the Faerie Queene in the eighteenth century; one of those who were not quite satisfied with good sense. His Letters on Chivalry and Romance are a protest against the restriction of poetry, a claim for freedom, a justification of the things which were popularly condemned as Gothic and fanciful. His protest throughout is delightfully written, and full of good sayings and good temper. 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.
Romances Classic Reprint
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Author : Isaac D'Israeli
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-03-11
Romances Classic Reprint written by Isaac D'Israeli and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-11 with Poetry categories.
Excerpt from Romances Tn learned M. De Cardonne, the late hing of France's oriental interpreter, discovered in the royal library a copy of this romance, 'and has given a skeleton if the story in the bibliotheque, 8m. It was meant perhaps but to gra tify the curiosity if the learned it has no exhibition of character, no description of scenery, no conduct cf the passions. But I could perceive in the simplicity of ana lysis and a tale with little involution if fable, something which might be made to delight the maniac and a lover! Vehement genius at variance with the ten derest domestic feelings! Cherishing the social duties, yet. 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.
The Romantic Classic Reprint
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Author : May Sinclair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-12
The Romantic Classic Reprint written by May Sinclair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-12 with categories.
Excerpt from The Romantic They turned again at the end of the platform. The tail of her long, averted stare was conscious of him, of his big, tweed-suited body and its behaviour, squaring and swelling and tightening in its dignity, of its heavy swing to her shoulder as they turned. She could stave off the worst by not looking at him, by looking at other thins, impersonal innocent things: the bright, yellow, sharp-gabled station; the black girders of the bridge; the white signal post beside it holding out a stiff, black-banded arm; the two rails curving there, with the flat, white glitter and sweep of scythes; pointed blades coming together, buried in the bend of the cutting. 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.
Rose O The Sea
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Author : Marguerite Florence Jervis Barcla Evans
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-03-17
Rose O The Sea written by Marguerite Florence Jervis Barcla Evans and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-17 with categories.
Excerpt from Rose O' the Sea: A Romance All day long Rose had been walking. In her grief she had covered miles. She could not have remained ih active in the little peaceful Cornish village that lay in the sun: every one there watched her so curiously, so covertly. N 0 one had come up to her after the funeral. Up here, amongst the rocks and crags, she could cry her heart out. She derived a certain solace from these frowning rocks. They were gaunt and solemn, yet kind; they reminded her of him. Sunshine was not in her to-day, in her who was usually all radiance and happy laughter, a sunbeam of a girl. Henry Eton, the queer old man who had named her for the wild roses on the shore, who had been father and mother and nurse to her, was gone, and she was alone as on the day when the sea had brought her to him, flotsam then, flotsam again. 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.
Gladys
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Author : Mary Greenleaf Darling
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-25
Gladys written by Mary Greenleaf Darling and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-25 with categories.
Excerpt from Gladys: A Romance The doctor paused in the rather blind groping of his way up the cabin stairs, first to scrutinize his welcomer, then, as recognition dawned upon his dazzled vision, to reply in a brusque tone quite at variance with his hearty grasp of the hand. 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.
Romance
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Author : Joseph Conrad
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-26
Romance written by Joseph Conrad and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-26 with categories.
Excerpt from Romance: A Novel Castro, on his hands and knees, startled me by whisper ing at my feet: Stand aside, senor [66. 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.
The Lovers A Romance Classic Reprint
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Author : Eden Phillpotts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-09-27
The Lovers A Romance Classic Reprint written by Eden Phillpotts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-27 with categories.
Excerpt from The Lovers a Romance The road flung itself out naked and free, mile after rolling mile, along the Moor. It climbed the hills, fell into the valleys, crossed the rivers by bridges or fords, climbed again, and finally, reduced to a white thread, passed into the far horizon and vanished through a gap between stone-crowned tors. Along it, under the brief sunset glow of an October evening, two men went slowly together, and one walked sedately on legs as thin and long as a stork, while the other stumped with a stick and a timber toe, for his right leg, from the middle thigh downward, remained at Gibraltar when he returned from the memorable siege of that fortress, a hero. And now, in the early years of the nineteenth century, his country was at grips with America and France and he could only look on, and bark, and wish he was young again. Beside General Sir Archer Godolphin went his brother, the Reverend Septimus. The soldier was short and stout. At a little distance he looked like a gigantic pegtop that had grown a human leg to steady its gyrations. 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.
A Romance Classic Reprint
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Author : Max Pemberton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-06-29
A Romance Classic Reprint written by Max Pemberton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-29 with categories.
Excerpt from A Romance Some pages from the life story of Sir Richard Escombe, Bart., particularly concerning his relations with the notorious Society of St. Francis, as founded at Medmenham Abbey, on the River Thames, by Sir Francis Dashwood and John Wilkes; of the manner in which he brought that society to an end; also of his relations with Kitty Dulcimore, of Sherbourn, in the county of Warwickshire; of the misfortune which befell him when he drew her name in the lottery; of his subsequent service at Windsor Castle. The whole giving a true account of certain social practices in the reign of George II. and of a dub but ill remembered in the present day, though entitled to perpetual obloquy. 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.