Robert Harborough Sherard byl anglický spisovatel a novinář. Byl přítelem a prvním životopiscem Oscara Wilda, stejně jako jeho nejplodnějším životopiscem v první polovině dvacátého století.
As Napoleon's private secretary, Claude-Francois de Meneval had a unique perspective on the emperor's rise and fall. His memoirs offer a fascinating insider's account of Napoleon's court, campaigns, and personal life, as well as a detailed chronicle of the political and military events of the time.
Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2019 with the help of original edition published long back [1906]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. - eng, Pages 540. EXTRA 10 DAYS APART FROM THE NORMAL SHIPPING PERIOD WILL BE REQUIRED FOR LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. COMPLETE LEATHER WILL COST YOU EXTRA US$ 25 APART FROM THE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.}
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... OSCAR WILDE WHEN AT OXFORD, 1878. (J. Guggenheim, Photo?, Oxford.) To face p. 48. Hotel Voltaire, and entertained him royally, and after dinner prayed of him to recite certain of his verses. Rollinat gave us his terrible Ballad of Troppmann, a gruesome and terrifying poem, to which the nervous excitement of its author, as he repeated it with wild gestures, lent additional horror. It was a very revel of the morbid. Poe would have crossed the ocean to be present. Oscar Wilde expressed a supreme satisfaction. On me, that evening produced a feeling of deep melancholy. I passed a sleepless night, and I wondered whether my friend had not felt, in Rollinat's presence and at the aspect of his state, a prompting to say a word, to hold out a hand, to offer help. From a man of his presence, with the authority of his reputation and position, an attempt at interference would not have been resented, and might have helped. His silence, nay, his approval, before a spectacle of self-destruction which to my Calvinistic conscience seemed the sin which can never be pardoned, were in my mind when, next day, as we were crossing the Pont des Arts, I asked him: "If you saw a man throw himself into the river here, would you go after him?" "I should consider it an act of gross impertinence to do so," he said. "His suicide would be a perfectly thought-out act, the definite result of a scientific process, with which I should have no right whatever to interfere." V There was no selfishness in this assumed indifference. Oscar Wilde was at once a supreme egotist and the least selfish of men, --that is to say, that he combined complete individualism with a large and generous altruism. He had not the masked selfishness of self-sacrifice where his strong nature rebelled...
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