Essays on Books and Cultures

Mabie, Hamilton Wrights

Verlag: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1902

Beschreibung

279 Pages. Cover is in bad shape but readable and the spine has been peeled off. Inscription on front end paper reads "For Pas from Carol Jean - Santa Fe 1966". All pages are bright, tight, and white. The books of four great writers have been used almost exclusively by way of illustration throughout this discussion of the relation of books to culture. This limited selection may have seemed at times too narrow and rigid; it may have conveyed an impression of insensibility to the vast range and the great variety of literary forms and products, and of indifference to contemporary writing. It needs to be said, therefore, that the constant reference to Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe has been made for the sake of clearness and force of illustration, and not, in any sense, as applying an exclusive principle of selection. The books of life are to be found in every language, and are the product of almost every age; and no one attains genuine culture who does not, through them, make himself familiar with the life of each successive generation. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23152

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Essays on Books and Cultures

Verlag: Dodd, Mead & Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1902

Einband: Trade Paperback

Zustand: Fair

Auflage: Assumed First Edition