A happy half-century, and other essays

by Agnes Repplier

EN·~4 hours·15 chapters

Chapters

15 total

A HAPPY HALF-CENTURY AND OTHER ESSAYS

0:16

PREFACE

1:33

A HAPPY HALF-CENTURY

16:37

THE PERILS OF IMMORTALITY

17:22

WHEN LALLA ROOKH WAS YOUNG

21:30

THE CORRESPONDENT

24:15

THE NOVELIST

23:20

ON THE SLOPES OF PARNASSUS

24:54

THE LITERARY LADY

24:51

THE CHILD

18:44

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Description

Deals mainly with English intellectual life during "the last twenty-five years of the eighteenth century and the first twenty-five years of the nineteenth."

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~4 hours (267K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908.

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Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

May 29, 2022

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68195

Subjects

Authors, English -- Biography Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century PS

About the author

Agnes Repplier

1855–1950

A sharp, witty essayist from Philadelphia, she became one of the best-known American masters of the familiar essay. Her work blends wide reading, literary criticism, and dry humor with a strong-minded view of everyday life.

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