Found 4,202 results for "Aesthetics in literature"
The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
The Book of Tea
by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
De rerum natura
by Titus Lucretius Carus
Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...
La Poetica
by Aristotle
THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...
À rebours
by Joris-Karl Huysmans
THE Floressas Des Esseintes, to judge by the various portraits preserved in the Chateau de Lourps, had originally been a...
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
by Aristotle
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
"The history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of...
Die Geburt der Tragödie
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Whatever may lie at the bottom of this questionable book: it must have been a question of the greatest interest and appe...
Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modo...
by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Aurora Egido
All has reached perfection, and becoming a true person is the greatest perfection of all.
Eugénie Grandet
by Honoré de Balzac
IN certain provincial towns there are houses whose appearance arouses a melancholy as great as that of the gloomiest clo...
Enten-eller
by Søren Kierkegaard
PERHAPS it has sometimes occurred to you, dear reader, to doubt the correctness of the familiar philosophical propositio...
Illusions perdues
by Honoré de Balzac
AT the time when this story begins, the Stanhope press and inking-rollers were not yet in use in small provincial printi...
