Author: Theodore Watts-Dunton
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781507646908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Old Familiar Faces", by Theodore Watts-Dunton. Theodore Watts-Dunton was an English critic and poet (1832-1914).
Author: Wayne C. Booth
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-12-15
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780226065496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Culled chiefly from great literary works, this unusual compendium of prose and poetry excerpts highlights the physical and emotional aspects of aging. Although Booth ( The Rhetoric of Fiction ), age 71, includes such cheery banal verse as "I Haven't Lost My Marbles Yet" (Minnie Hodapp), he has tailored this collection to encompass the unpleasant truths about aging. William Butler Yeats's "Sailing to Byzantium" and excerpts from Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age offer realistic assessments of the perils and possible consolations of aging. The thoughtful commentary with which Booth connects the selections reminds readers that physical decay and fear of death are conditions common to us all. This provocative collection braces rather than comforts.
Author: Theodore Watts-Dunton
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781290932462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.