The Double Dealer, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Julius Weis Friend

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ISBN 10 : 1331593867 ISBN 13 : 9781331593867

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In November 1693 Master William Congreve scomedy, The Double Dealer, made its debut before an assemblage of the beaux and belles of Restoration London, the beauty and wit of the court of William III, January, 1921, The Double Dealer plays again. On this occasion it takes the form of a monthly magazine, but its appeal once more is to that select audience for whom romance and irony lie not so many leagues apart; whose veneration for art, music, and letters, is not so solemn that it cannot be lightened by a sense of humor; whose opinions of society, economics, and politics are drawn, not from the perusal of dusty books, but rather from the vision of tolerant eyes estimating the devious ways of the world. HONESTY AND THE DOUBLE DEALER HONESTY is the best policy, said Benjamin Franklin, the prototype of one hundred per cent. A mericanism. But when Franklin wrote that he was making a confession, he was telling the truth about the citadels of power, a dangerous practice and one hardly in vogue since Machiavelli babbled in exile four hundred years ago. Today these words are slyly changed into the motto, Honesty is our policy, which screams from every bazaar in the market-place. Each man now marches in the procession of the righteous wearing the monotonous mask of integrity. Yet they do not pass unrecognized. Ever and anon the mask slips for a minute and we glimpse strangely familiar faces, we seem to remember them about the Scaean Gates, on the plains of Troy, advancing true friends, and beating back alien foes, barterinsr mercy for gold; in a crowded courtroom of A thens, intent on doing to death Socrates for being nobler than they, listening courteously to his plea with stopped ears; in an inner chamber of the Vatican trafficking in assassination and chicane with the Borgias. The play is interminable in its acts; and the persons of the drama are still the band of
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331593867
• ISBN 13: 9781331593867
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 564
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