The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2)Various
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The Little Review, April 1916 (Vol. 3, No. 2)
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Periodicals
MY CHILDHOOD. By Maxim Gorky. The autobiography of the famous
Russian novelist up to his seventeenth year. An astounding human
document and an explanation (perhaps unconscious) of the Russian
national character. Frontispiece portrait. 8vo, 308 pages. $2.00
net, postage 10 cents. (Ready Oct. 14).
AFFIRMATIONS. By Havelock Ellis. A discussion of some of the
fundamental questions of life and morality as expressed in, or
suggested by, literature. The subjects of the five studies are
Nietzsche, Zola, Huysmans, Casanova and St. Francis of Assisi.
Send $1.87.
LITERATURE
COMPLETE WORKS. Maurice Maeterlinck. The Essays, 10 vols., per
vol., net $1.75. The Plays, 8 vols., per vol., net $1.50. Poems,
1 vol., net $1.50. Volumes sold separately. In uniform style, 19
volumes. Limp green leather, flexible cover, thin paper, gilt
top, 12mo. Postage added.
INTERPRETATIONS OF LITERATURE. By Lafcadio Hearn. A remarkable
work. Lafcadio Hearn became as nearly Japanese as an Occidental
can become. English literature is interpreted from a new angle in
this book. Send $6.50.
BERNARD SHAW: A Critical Study. By P. P. Howe. Send $2.15.
MAURICE MAETERLINCK: A Critical Study. By Una Taylor. 8vo. Send
$2.15.
W. B. YEATS: A Critical Study. By Forest Reid. Send $2.15.
DEAD SOULS. Nikolai Gogol’s great humorous classic translated
from the Russian. Send $1.25.
ENJOYMENT OF POETRY. By Max Eastman. “His book is a masterpiece,”
says J. B. Kerfoot in Life. By mail, $1.35.
THE PATH OF GLORY. By Anatole France. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth. An
English edition of a remarkable book that M. Anatole France has
written to be sold for the benefit of disabled soldiers. The
original French is printed alongside the English translation.
Send $1.35.
THE PILLAR OF FIRE: A Profane Baccalaureate. By Seymour Deming.
Takes up and treats with satire and with logical analysis such
questions as, What is a college education? What is a college man?
What is the aristocracy of intellect?—searching pitilessly into
and through the whole question of collegiate training for life.
Send $1.10.
IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS. By James Huneker. A collection of essays
in Mr. Huneker’s well-known brilliant style, of which some are
critical discussions upon the work and personality of Conrad,
Whitman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and the younger Russians, while
others deal with music, art, and social topics. The title is
borrowed from the manifest of Solomon’s ship trading with
Tarshish. Send $1.60.
INTERPRETATIONS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By Lafcadio Hearn. Two
volumes. Mr. Hearn, who was at once a scholar, a genius, and a
master of English style, interprets in this volume the literature
of which he was a student, its masterpieces, and its masters, for
the benefit, originally, of the race of his adoption. $6.50,
postpaid.
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