Biography Books

Chopin - The Man and His Music

James Huneker

Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. Chopin's violence was psychic, a travailing and groan..

Chopin and Other Musical Essays

Henry Theophilus Finck

Leipsic, the centre of the world's music trade, exports about one hundred thousand dollars' worth of music to America every year. I do not know how much of this sum is to be placed to the account of C..

The Entire Court Memoirs of France Series

Anonymous

The Memoirs, of which a new translation is now presented to the public, are the undoubted composition of the celebrated princess whose name they bear, the contemporary of our Queen Elizabeth; of equal..

Elizabeth Fry

Mrs. E.R. Pitman

A hundred years ago, Norwich was a remarkable centre of religious, social and intellectual life. The presence of officers, quartered with their troops in the city, and the balls and festivities which ..

Emile Zola

William Dean Howells

In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as t..

History of Friedrich II of Prussia, vol 10

Thomas Carlyle

On the Crown-Prince's Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was assigned to him for revenue, we heard withal of a residence getting ready. Hint had..

Emile Zola

Edmond Lepelletier

Émile Zola was born in Paris. Should he be classified among the real Parisians, the natives, the Parisians who are from Paris, as the natives of Marseille are Marseilles? Yes and no. Ambiguous but exa..

Emily Brontë

Thomas J. Murrey

There are, perhaps, few tests of excellence so sure as the popular verdict on a work of art a hundred years after its accomplishment. So much time must be allowed for the swing and rebound of taste, f..