{"product_id":"2940013469402","title":"GREAT WRITERS","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eROUSSEAU.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOCIALISM AND EDUCATION.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Jacques Rousseau and Edmund Burke\u003cbr\u003eRousseau representative of his century\u003cbr\u003eBirth\u003cbr\u003eEducation and early career; engraver, footman\u003cbr\u003eSecretary, music teacher, and writer\u003cbr\u003eMeets Thérèse\u003cbr\u003eHis first public essay in literature\u003cbr\u003eOperetta and second essay\u003cbr\u003eGeneva; the Hermitage; Madame d'Épinay.\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Nouvelle Héloïse;\" Comtesse d'Houdetot\u003cbr\u003e\"Émile;\" \"The Social Contract\"\u003cbr\u003eBooks publicly burned; author flees\u003cbr\u003eEngland; Hume; the \"Confessions\"\u003cbr\u003eDeath, career reviewed\u003cbr\u003eCharacter of Rousseau\u003cbr\u003eEssay on the Arts and Sciences\u003cbr\u003e\"Origin of Human Inequalities\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Social Contract\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Émile\"\u003cbr\u003eThe \"New Héloïse\"\u003cbr\u003eThe \"Confessions\"\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSIR WALTER SCOTT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE MODERN NOVEL.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eScott and Byron\u003cbr\u003eEvanescence of literary fame\u003cbr\u003eParentage of Scott\u003cbr\u003eBirth and childhood\u003cbr\u003eSchooling and reading\u003cbr\u003eBecomes an advocate\u003cbr\u003eHis friends and pleasures\u003cbr\u003ePersonal peculiarities\u003cbr\u003eWriting of poetry; first publication\u003cbr\u003eMarriage and settlement\u003cbr\u003e\"Scottish Minstrelsy\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Lay of the Last Minstrel;\" Ashestiel rented\u003cbr\u003eThe Edinburgh Review: Jeffrey, Brougham, Smith\u003cbr\u003eThe Ballantynes\u003cbr\u003e\"Marmion\"\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey as a critic\u003cbr\u003eQuarrels of author and publishers; Quarterly Review\u003cbr\u003eScott's poetry\u003cbr\u003eDuration of poetic fame\u003cbr\u003eClerk of Sessions; Abbotsford bought\u003cbr\u003e\"Lord of the Isles;\" \"Rokeby\"\u003cbr\u003eFiction; fame of great authors\u003cbr\u003e\"Waverley\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Guy Mannering\"\u003cbr\u003eGreat popularity of Scott\u003cbr\u003e\"The Antiquary\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Old Mortality;\" comparisons\u003cbr\u003e\"Rob Roy\"\u003cbr\u003eScotland's debt to Scott\u003cbr\u003eProsperity; rank; correspondence\u003cbr\u003ePersonal habits\u003cbr\u003eLife at Abbotsford\u003cbr\u003eChosen friends\u003cbr\u003eWorks issued in 1820-1825\u003cbr\u003eBankruptcy through failure of his publishers\u003cbr\u003eScott's noble character and action\u003cbr\u003eWorks issued in 1825-1831\u003cbr\u003eIllness and death\u003cbr\u003ePayment of his enormous debt\u003cbr\u003eVast pecuniary returns from his works\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLORD BYRON.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETIC GENIUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDifficulty of depicting Byron\u003cbr\u003eDescent; birth; lameness\u003cbr\u003eSchooling; early reading habits\u003cbr\u003eCollege life\u003cbr\u003eTemperament and character\u003cbr\u003eFirst publication of poems\u003cbr\u003eSavage criticism by Edinburgh Review\u003cbr\u003e\"English Bards and Scotch Reviewers\"\u003cbr\u003eByron becomes a peer\u003cbr\u003eLoneliness and melancholy; determines to travel\u003cbr\u003ePortugal; Spain\u003cbr\u003eMalta; Greece; Turkey\u003cbr\u003eProfanity of language in Byron's time\u003cbr\u003e\"Childe Harold\"\u003cbr\u003eInstant fame and popularity\u003cbr\u003eConsideration of the poem\u003cbr\u003eMarries Miss Milbanke; separation\u003cbr\u003eGenius and marriage\u003cbr\u003e\"The Corsair;\" \"Bride of Abydos\"\u003cbr\u003eEvil reputation; loss of public favor\u003cbr\u003eByron leaves England forever\u003cbr\u003eSwitzerland; the Shelleys; new poems\u003cbr\u003eDegrading life in Venice\u003cbr\u003eWonderful labors amid dissipation\u003cbr\u003eThe Countess Guiccioli\u003cbr\u003eTwo sides to Byron's character\u003cbr\u003eHis power and fertility\u003cbr\u003eInexcusable immorality; \"Don Juan\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Manfred\" and \"Cain\" not irreligious but dramatic\u003cbr\u003eByron not atheistical but morbid\u003cbr\u003eMany noble traits and actions\u003cbr\u003eGenerosity and fidelity in friendship\u003cbr\u003eEulogies by Scott and Moore\u003cbr\u003eByron's interest in the Greek Revolution\u003cbr\u003eDevotes himself to that cause\u003cbr\u003eRaises £10,000 and embarks for Greece\u003cbr\u003eCollects troops in his own pay\u003cbr\u003eHis latest verses\u003cbr\u003eIllness from vexation and exposure\u003cbr\u003eDeath and burial\u003cbr\u003eThe verdict\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHOMAS CARLYLE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCRITICISM AND BIOGRAPHY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFroude's Biography of Carlyle\u003cbr\u003eBrief résumé of Carlyle's career\u003cbr\u003eParentage and birth\u003cbr\u003eSlender education; school-teaching\u003cbr\u003eAbandons clerical intentions to become a writer\u003cbr\u003e\"Elements of Geometry;\" \"Life of Schiller;\" \"Wilhelm Meister\"\u003cbr\u003eMarries Jane Welsh\u003cbr\u003eHer character\u003cbr\u003eEdinburgh and Craigenputtock\u003cbr\u003eEssays: \"German Literature\"\u003cbr\u003eGoethe's \"Helena\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Burns\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Life of Heyne;\" \"Voltaire\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Characteristics\"\u003cbr\u003eWholesome and productive life at Craigenputtock\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr. Johnson\"\u003cbr\u003eFriendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson\u003cbr\u003e\"Sartor Resartus\"\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle removes to London\u003cbr\u003eBegins \"The French Revolution\"\u003cbr\u003eManuscript accidentally destroyed\u003cbr\u003eHabits of great authors in rewriting\u003cbr\u003ePublication of the work; Carlyle's literary style\u003cbr\u003eBetter reception in America than in England\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle begins lecturing\u003cbr\u003ePopular eloquence in England\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle and the Chartists\u003cbr\u003e\"Heroes and Hero Worship\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Past and Present\"\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle becomes bitter\u003cbr\u003e\"Latter-Day Pamphlets\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Life of Oliver Cromwell\"\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle's confounding right with might\u003cbr\u003eGreat merits of Carlyle as historian\u003cbr\u003eDeath of Mrs. Carlyle\u003cbr\u003eSuccess of Carlyle established\u003cbr\u003e\"Frederick the Great\"\u003cbr\u003eDecline of the author's popularity\u003cbr\u003ePublic honors; private sorrow\u003cbr\u003eFinal illness and death\u003cbr\u003eCarlyle's place in literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLORD MACAULAY.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145648750832,"sku":"2940013469402","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013469402_p0.jpg?v=1763581278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013469402","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}