Varied Types - Couverture souple

Chesterton, G K

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1113388196 ISBN 13 : 9781113388193

Editeur : BiblioLife, 2009

Synopsis

Il s'agit d'une reproduction historique d'avant 1923 qui a été sélectionnée pour la qualité. L'assurance qualité a été menée sur chacun de ces livres dans le but de supprimer les livres présentant des imperfections introduites par le processus de numérisation. Bien que nous ayons fait de meilleurs efforts, les livres peuvent comporter des erreurs occasionnelles qui n'entravent pas l'expérience de lecture. Nous pensons que ce travail est culturellement important et avons choisi de ramener le livre en impression dans le cadre de notre engagement continu à la préservation des œuvres imprimées dans le monde entier.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

English journalist and author, who came of a family of estate-agents, was born in London on the 29th of May 1874. He was educated at St Paul's school, which he left in 1891 with the idea of studying art. But his natural bent was literary, and he devoted himself mainly to cultivating that means of expression, both in prose and verse; he did occasional reviewing, and had some experience in a publisher's office. In 1900, having already produced a volume of clever poems, The Wild Knight, he definitely took to journalism as a career, and became a regular contributor of signed articles to the Liberal journals, the Speaker and Daily News. He established himself from the first as a writer with a distinct personality, combative to a swashbuckling degree, unconventional and dogmatic; and the republication of much of his work in a series of volumes (e.g. Twelve Types, Heretics, Orthodoxy), characterized by much acuteness of criticism, a pungent style, and the capacity of laying down the law with unflagging impetuosity and humour, enhanced his reputation. His powers as a writer are best shown in his studies of Browning (in the "English Men of Letters " series) and of Dickens; but these were only rather more ambitious essays among a medley of characteristic utterances, ranging from fiction (including The Napoleon of Notting Hill) to fugitive verse, and from artistic criticism to discussions of ethics and religion.

Présentation de l'éditeur

The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points which are unimportant. It reveals and asserts and insists on exactly those things in a mans life of which the man himself is wholly unconscious; his exact class in society, the circumstances of his ancestry, the place of his present location. These are things which do not, properly speaking, ever arise before the human vision. They do not occur to a mans mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that they do not occur in a mans
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BiblioLife
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1113388196
• ISBN 13: 9781113388193
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible