The Works of Thomas de Quincey, Part I Vol 3: Articles and Translations from the London Magazine, Blackwood's Magazine and Others 1821-1824

ISBN-13: 9781138764842 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 474 str.

Grevel Lindop;Barry Symonds

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Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) is considered one of the most important English prose writers of the early-19th century

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Preface -- Abbreviations -- Conventions for manuscript transcription -- Translation from B1ackwood’s Magazine 1821: The Spor of Fortune -- -- Articles and translations from the London Magazine 1821—4: Jean Paul Frederick Richter -- The Happy Life of the Parish Priest in Sweden Last Will and Testament — The House of Weeping -- Letters to a Young Man Whose Education has been Neglected -- Literature and Authorship -- Outline of the Work -- On Languages -- Letter to the Editor (Lion’s Head) -- On Languages (continued) -- On the English Notices of Kant -- [Anecdotage (Lion’s Head)] -- Anecdotage, 1. Miss Hawkins’s Anecdotes -- Death of a German Man -- Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater -- Anglo-German Dictionaries -- Prefiguration of Remote Events -- Moral Effects of Revolutions -- Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater -- I. Walking Stewart -- II. Maithus / On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth -- III. English Dictionaries I Reforinadoes / Proverbs I Antagonism I To the Lakers / On Suicide -- Lion’s Head (Dec.): XYZ reply to Hazlitt’s charge of plagiarism in Malthus -- Notes from the Pocket Book of a Late Opium-Eater -- IV. False Distinctions / Madness / English Physiology -- V. Superficial Knowledge / Manuscripts of Melmoth / Scriptural Allusion Explained -- Falsification of the History of England -- Mr Schnackenberger; or Two Masters for One Dog -- The Dice -- The King of Hayti -- Measure of Value -- Miscellaneous translations 1823—4: The Fatal Marksman -- The Incognito; or, Count Fitz-Hum -- The Somnambulist -- Manuscript transcripts: -- On the London Magazine, XYZ. [MS Pierpont Morgan] -- Continuation of the Note On the London M’igazine, XYZ. [MS Pforzheimer Collection, NYPLI -- Silver plate inscription for Rev. Joshua William Brook -- Anna Louise -- Vulgar Errors in Political Economy -- What is Theory? -- Jeremy Taylor -- Letters to a young man whose education has been neglected. — Letter V -- The Defier of Ghosts -- Appendix: -- The Devil’s Ladder From the German of Aloise Schreiber -- Explanatory Notes -- Textual Notes.