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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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Articulating an American Aesthetic
by Schlitt, Melinda (pref., intro.); Britton Chance, Virginia Dudley, Margot Eberle
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...
Film art
by David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson
Motion pictures are so much a part of our lives that it's hard to imagine a world without them.