Voyage Around My Room
Title | Voyage Around My Room PDF eBook |
Author | Xavier de Maistre |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0811222349 |
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach In 1790, while serving in the Piedmontese army, the French aristocrat Xavier de Maistre (1763–1852) was punished for dueling and placed under house arrest for forty-two days. The result was a discursive, mischievous memoir Voyage Around My Room, and its sequel, Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room. Admired by Nietzsche and Machado de Assis, Ossian and Susan Sontag, this classic book proves that sitting on the living-room sofa can be as fascinating as crossing the Alps or paddling up the Amazon. In addition to the Voyage and Expedition, this edition also includes the dialogue “The Leper of the City of Aosta,” a preface by Xavier’s better-known older brother (the royalist philosopher Joseph de Maistre), and an introduction by Richard Howard.
Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand
Title | Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand PDF eBook |
Author | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1366 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | New Zealand |
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Journal of Education and School World
Title | Journal of Education and School World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | Education |
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Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art
Title | Academy; a Weekly Review of Literature, Learning, Science and Art PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 924 |
Release | 1898 |
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The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
The Academy
Title | The Academy PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 560 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | English literature |
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The Academy and Literature
Title | The Academy and Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 570 |
Release | 1893 |
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Educational Times
Title | Educational Times PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Education |
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