Partial Portraits: Emerson, The Life of George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, Anthony

 

Contents--Emerson; The Life of George Eliot; Daniel Deronda: A Conversation; Anthony Trollope; Robert Louis Stevenson; Miss Woolson; Alphonse Daudet; Guy de Maupassant; Ivan Turgenieff; George du Maurier; The Art of Fiction.

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The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

As part of a projected six-volume edition of the Divine Comedy, Musa (Indiana Univ.) has revised and reissued his translation of Dante's Inferno (LJ 3/1/95) in a bilingual edition, accompanied by a volume-length commentary. Musa's translation is in fluent, colloquial verse that aims for the speed and rhythm of the original though not the form. This serviceable version is on the same level as the recent translations by Robert Pinskey (LJ 11/1/94) and Robert Durling (LJ 3/15/96). Musa's commentary is thorough and clear but doesn't significantly supersede that of Charles S. Singleton (1970). Nevertheless, it can be recommended.?Thomas L. Cooksey, Armstrong State Coll., Savannah, Ga.
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From Booklist

Critic extraordinaire James (Cultural Amnesia, 2007) is also a poet (Opal Sunset: Selected Poems, 2008), and he has been working his way to this daring project ever since he was in Florence in the mid-1960s while studying at Cambridge, as he explains in his rousing introduction. His companion, whom he would soon marry, the future Dante scholar Prudence Shaw, revealed to him the “great secret of Dante’s masterpiece,” the fact that it possesses both “interior intensity” and propulsion. How, James wondered, could a translator re-create this dynamic? Deciding that Dante’s terza rima is too strained in English, he uses robust, rollicking quatrains. He also avoids footnotes, which so rudely interrupt the flow and drama of this defining classic, by working necessary explanations into the poem itself. James’ revitalizing translation allows this endlessly analyzed, epic, archetypal “journey to salvation” to once again stride, whirl, blaze, and sing. Anyone heretofore reluctant to pick up The Divine Comedy will discover that James’ bold, earthy, rhythmic and rhyming, all-the-way live English translation fulsomely and brilliantly liberates the profound humanity of Dante’s timeless masterpiece. --Donna Seaman              

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Dracula by Bram Stoker

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced the character of Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. Wikipedia

Originally published: 1897

Author: Bram Stoker

Characters: Dracula, Gabriel Van Helsing, Mina Harker, MORE

Countries: England, United States of America

Genres: Horror fiction, Gothic fiction

Adaptations: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), MORE

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. The work is also known as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. Wikipedia

Originally published: January 5, 1886

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Longman

Original language: English

Adaptations: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), MORE

Genres: Psychological thriller, Drama, Horror fiction, Mystery, Gothic fiction, Science Fiction

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A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. Wikipedia

Originally published: 1905

Author: Charles Dickens

Text: A Christmas Carol at Wikisource

Illustrator: John Leech

Characters: Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Ghost of Christmas Past, MORE

Genres: Fairy tale, Novella, Ghost story, Historical Fiction, Morality play

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