The Way of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Way of the World write by William Congreve. This book was released on 2020-08-27T16:51:39Z. The Way of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. William Congreve’s comedy The Way of the World was first performed in 1700 at the theatre in Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. It was not well received, and as a result Congreve vowed never to write for the stage again—a vow he kept. Nonetheless the comedy was printed in the same year and has come to be regarded as the author’s masterpiece, a classic of Restoration drama. In a world still reacting against the puritanism of Cromwell and the Commonwealth, Restoration drama had slowly transitioned from celebrating the licentiousness and opulence of the newly returned court to the more thoughtful and refined comedy of manners that was to dominate the English stage of 18th century. In one way Congreve’s The Way of the World is the last (and best) of its type, and in another way, it is the forerunner of a style that is echoed even now. The play centers on the love affair of Mirabell and Millamant who are prevented from marrying by a number of obstacles, not the least of which is Mirabell’s past dalliance with Millamant’s aunt’s affections. Intricate, witty, and amusing, the comedy nevertheless concludes with no clear heroes or heroines—one of the things that makes it such an incisive portrait of human experience and an enduring example of its type. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Writer and the World
The Writer and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Writer and the World write by V. S. Naipaul. This book was released on 2012-03-15. The Writer and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For forty years V. S. Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on our world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage -- nearly all of them heretofore out of print -- are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in the redemptive power of modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the many-sided prism of his own experience. Whether writing about the Muslim invasions of India, Mobutu’s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he has demonstrated again and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which power works, of the universal relation of the exploiter and the exploited. And no one has put forth a more consistently eloquent defense of the dignity of the individual and the value of civilization. Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul’s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.
Literary Occasions
Literary Occasions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literary Occasions write by V. S. Naipaul. This book was released on 2010-02-10. Literary Occasions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time—from the Nobel Prize-winning author. • “He brings to [nonfiction] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought…. I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul’s writing.” —Vivian Gornick, Los Angeles Times Book Review Here the subject is Naipaul’s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, “Two Worlds,” traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.
The World is what it is
The World is what it is - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World is what it is write by Patrick French. This book was released on 2008. The World is what it is available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. French offers the first authoritative biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial Nobel laureate. Informed by exclusive access to Naipaul's private papers and personal recollections, this biography does full justice to an enigmatic genius.
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature
V. S. Naipaul and World Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook V. S. Naipaul and World Literature write by Vijay Mishra. This book was released on 2024-01-31. V. S. Naipaul and World Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book engages with Naipaul's literary corpus and reconceptualizes what it means to be a writer of world literature.
