Casanova in LondonStein and Day, 1971 - 198 páginas "In the New Statesman, TLS, the Spectator, the New York Times and Harper's Bazaar among others, these short pieces appeared in other forms as book reviews, an introduction, etc. but all of them display Mr. Quennell's immanent virtues -- the well-informed insights so pleasantly styled. There are twenty-five figures, chiefly old with the exception of [Robert] Graves and [Evelyn] Waugh, and from both sides of the Channel. The title essay deals with the indignities Casanova suffered in London in 1763 in the hands and even in the bed of a malicious demi-mondame. There's Victor Hugo and George Sand in the setting sun of old age; [André] Gide, married to a woman who aroused devotion but could not awake desire while [James] Boswell, the dissolute, was anything but faithful; [Daniel] Defoe's transformation of Alexander Selkirk's story; Waugh, the 'greatest novelist' of this generation; that lovable old La Rochefoucauld; and the 'magician of pleasure,' [Guillaume] Apollinaire. One or two unknowns, generally speaking, Anthony Hamilton and [Henry] Mayhew and perhaps the Goncourts whose pursuit of l'art pour l'art is like Quennell's, a rebuke to our own 'slovenly and hall-hearted age.' Even in this minimal form, the essays represent a perfectly proportioned judgment and taste."--Kirkus Reviews. |
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... master of the galley Cinque Ports , a vessel of one hundred and twenty tons which was to accompany the St George , commanded by Captain Dampier himself . Thus Selkirk exchanged the squalid confusion of his life at home for the anarchic ...
... master of the galley Cinque Ports , a vessel of one hundred and twenty tons which was to accompany the St George , commanded by Captain Dampier himself . Thus Selkirk exchanged the squalid confusion of his life at home for the anarchic ...
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... Master Word . Much to the alarm of her hard - headed publisher , Buloz - ' Ecrivez à George , ' he implored Sainte - Beuve ' qu'elle ne fasse pas trop de mystique ' - she wandered on to dangerous ground . ' Leroux , ' writes M. Maurois ...
... Master Word . Much to the alarm of her hard - headed publisher , Buloz - ' Ecrivez à George , ' he implored Sainte - Beuve ' qu'elle ne fasse pas trop de mystique ' - she wandered on to dangerous ground . ' Leroux , ' writes M. Maurois ...
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... master at the cost of approximately sixpence - halfpenny . But on Sundays the fare was better . They then sometimes had a bit of " prime fat mutton taken to the oven , with ' taturs to bake along with it " . or a " fry of liver , if the ...
... master at the cost of approximately sixpence - halfpenny . But on Sundays the fare was better . They then sometimes had a bit of " prime fat mutton taken to the oven , with ' taturs to bake along with it " . or a " fry of liver , if the ...
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The Goncourts | 25 |
Ego Hugo 4555 | 45 |
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