Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal: Philippine Patriot - Couverture souple

Craig, Mr Austin

 
9781511682244: Lineage, Life and Labors of Jose Rizal: Philippine Patriot
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1511682248 ISBN 13 : 9781511682244
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1913

Synopsis

In writing a biography, the author, if he be discriminating, selects, with great care, the salient features of the life story of the one whom he deems worthy of being portrayed as a person possessed of preeminent qualities that make for a character and greatness. Indeed to write biography at all, one should have that nice sense of proportion that makes him instinctively seize upon only those points that do advance his theme. Boswell has given the world an example of biography that is often wearisome in the extreme, although he wrote about a man who occupied in his time a commanding position. Because Johnson was Johnson the world accepts Boswell, and loves to talk of the minuteness of Boswell's portrayal, yet how many read him, or if they do read him, have the patience to read him to the end?

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In writing a biography, the author, if he be discriminating, selects, with great care, the salient features of the life story of the one whom he deems worthy of being portrayed as a person possessed of preeminent qualities that make for a character and greatness. Indeed to write biography at all, one should have that nice sense of proportion that makes him instinctively seize upon only those points that do advance his theme. Boswell has given the world an example of biography that is often wearisome in the extreme, although he wrote about a man who occupied in his time a commanding position. Because Johnson was Johnson the world accepts Boswell, and loves to talk of the minuteness of Boswell's portrayal, yet how many read him, or if they do read him, have the patience to read him to the end?

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
1913
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1511682248
ISBN 13 
9781511682244
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
266
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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