Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern - Volume 6

Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

• Publisher: pubOne.info
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9782819931690
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. very historian of the Valois period is indebted to Brantome for preserving the atmosphere and detail of the brilliant life in which he moved as a dashing courtier, a military adventurer, and a gallant gentleman of high degree. He was not a professional scribe, nor a student; but he took notes unconsciously, and in the evening of his life turned back the pages of his memory to record the scenes through which he had passed and the characters which he had known. He has been termed the "e;valet de chambre"e; of history; nevertheless the anecdotes scattered through his works will ever be treasured by all students and historians of that age of luxury and magnificence, art and beauty, beneath which lay the fermentation of great religious and political movements, culminating in the struggle between the Huguenots and Catholics.

Table of contents

• THE ABBÉ DE BRANTÔME (PIERRE DE BOURDEILLE)
• THE DANCING OF ROYALTY
• THE SHADOW OF A TOMB
• M. LE CONSTABLE ANNE DE MONTMORENCY
• TWO FAMOUS ENTERTAINMENTS
• FREDRIKA BREMER
• A HOME-COMING
• THE LANDED PROPRIETOR
• A FAMILY PICTURE
• CLEMENS BRENTANO
• ELISABETH BRENTANO (BETTINA VON ARNIM)
• DEDICATION: TO GOETHE
• TO GOETHE
• BETTINA'S LAST MEETING WITH GOETHE
• JOHN BRIGHT
• FROM THE SPEECH ON THE CORN LAWS (1843)
• FROM THE SPEECH ON INCENDIARISM IN IRELAND (1844)
• FROM THE SPEECH ON NON-RECOGNITION OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY (1861)
• FROM THE SPEECH ON THE STATE OF IRELAND (1866)
• FROM THE SPEECH ON THE IRISH ESTABLISHED CHURCH (1868)
• BRILLAT-SAVARIN
• FROM THE 'PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE'
• ON THE LOVE OF GOOD LIVING
• ON PEOPLE FOND OF GOOD LIVING
• CHARLOTTE BRONTÉ AND HER SISTERS
• JANE EYRE'S WEDDING DAY
• MADAME BECK
• A YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE
• THE END OF HEATHCLIFF
• PHILLIPS BROOKS
• PERSONAL CHARACTER
• THE COURAGE OF OPINIONS
• LITERATURE AND LIFE
• CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN
• WIELAND'S STATEMENT
• JOHN BROWN
• MARJORIE FLEMING
• THE DEATH OF THACKERAY
• CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (ARTEMUS WARD)
• EDWIN FORREST AS OTHELLO
• HIGH-HANDED OUTRAGE AT UTICA
• AFFAIRS ROUND THE VILLAGE GREEN
• MR. PEPPER
• HORACE GREELEY'S RIDE TO PLACERVILLE
• SIR THOMAS BROWNE
• FROM THE 'RELIGIO MEDICI'
• FROM 'CHRISTIAN MORALS'
• FROM 'HYDRIOTAPHIA, OR URN-BURIAL'
• FROM 'A FRAGMENT ON MUMMIES'
• FROM 'A LETTER TO A FRIEND'
• SOME RELATIONS WHOSE TRUTH WE FEAR
• WILLIAM BROWNE
• HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL
• ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
• ROBERT BROWNING
• ORESTES AUGUSTUS BROWNSON
• SAINT-SIMONISM
• FERDINAND BRUNETIÈRE
• TAINE AND PRINCE NAPOLEON
• THE LITERATURES OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY
• GIORDANO BRUNO
• A DISCOURSE OF POETS
• WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
• JAMES BRYCE
• THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES
• THE ASCENT OF ARARAT
• THE WORK OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
• FRANCIS TREVELYAN BUCKLAND
• A HUNT IN A HORSE-POND
• ON RATS
• SNAKES AND THEIR POISON
• MY MONKEY JACKO
• HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE
• MORAL VERSUS INTELLECTUAL PRINCIPLES IN HUMAN PROGRESS
• THE MYTHICAL ORIGIN OF HISTORY
• GEORGE LOUIS LE CLERC BUFFON
• NATURE
• THE HUMMING-BIRD
• EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
• THE AMPHITHEATRE
• KENELM AND LILY
• Copyright