The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast - Couverture souple

Brann, William Cowper

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1417957557 ISBN 13 : 9781417957552

Editeur : Kessinger Publishing Co, 2004

Synopsis

The Complete Works Of Brann The Iconoclast V11 is a book that contains a collection of writings by William Cowper Brann, who was a journalist and writer in the late 19th century. Brann was known for his controversial and often provocative opinions on a variety of topics, including politics, religion, and society. This volume specifically contains the eleventh installment of his complete works, which includes essays, articles, and editorials that were originally published in Brann's newspaper, The Iconoclast. The topics covered in this volume range from critiques of the government and the media to commentary on the state of education and the role of women in society. Brann's writing is known for its sharp wit, biting sarcasm, and fearless approach to tackling taboo subjects. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of journalism and the evolution of American society in the late 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Yes, Pve read it and when I had finished the miserable thing ray head felt as though full of wind and dishwater. A critic is compelled to read every book of which a foolish public makes a fad, and in this era of decadent literature and depraved taste, the task is usually equivalent to wading through a miasmic sewer or hoofing it over an unprofitable Sahara. If a book is only bad enough it is sure of popular success. And Quo Vadis is the worst of all the irremediable tommyrot over which an undiscriminating public has raved. It does not even possess the doubtful charm of artistic immorality it sinks even below the usual level of insufferable imbecility. Where it is not morally corrupt and bestially bad, it is either puerile or blasphemous. Quo Vadis is the mental moon-calf, a chaotic ollapodrida composed of the intellectual fag-ends of the universe. To the normal mind it is neither entertaining nor instructive. It is a conglomeration of meaningless words, a concatenation of absurdities, a cataclysm of nescience and nonsense. It should have been subjected to the blue-pencil of the snake-editor then burned. The story, which occupies more than 500 dreary pages, could have been better told in a dozen newspaper columns. It is a lingering agony long drawn out. It is just such a book as I would expect a Texas editor to write while enjoying an attack of delirium-tremens. Reading hwere like seining the Atlantic ocean to find a bull-frog, or fishing in one of Talmage sidiotic sermons for a nascent idea.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1417957557
• ISBN 13: 9781417957552
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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