Comfort Found in Good Old Books. George Hamlin Fitch

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Название Comfort Found in Good Old Books
Автор произведения George Hamlin Fitch
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       George Hamlin Fitch

      Comfort Found in Good Old Books

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664563927

       Illustrations

       Introduction

       Comfort Found in Good Old Books

       COMFORT FOUND IN GOOD OLD BOOKS

       The Greatest Book in the World

       Shakespeare Stands Next to the Bible

       How to Read the Ancient Classics

       The Arabian Nights and Other Classics

       The Confessions of St. Augustine

       Don Quixote One of the World's Great Books

       The Imitation Of Christ

       The Rubá'iyát of Omar Khayyám

       The Divine Comedy by Dante

       How to Get the Best Out of Books

       Milton's Paradise Lost and Other Poems

       Pilgrim's Progress the Finest of All Allegories

       Old Dr. Johnson and His Boswell

       Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels

       Bibliography

       Index

       Table of Contents


Facing Page
Title Page of the Celebrated First Folio Edition of Shakespeare Title
A Page from the Gutenberg Bible (Mayence, 1455) 4
A Page from the Coverdale Bible, being the First Complete English Bible 14
Chandos' Portrait of Shakespeare 16
Shakespeare's Birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon before the Restoration 22
The Anne Hathaway Cottage 22
Bust of Homer in the Museum of Naples 32
Portrait of Virgil, taken from a Bust by L. P. Boitard 34
Plato, after an Antique Bust 36
Edmund Dulac's Conception of Queen Scheherezade, who told the "Arabian Nights" Tales 40
The Jinnee and the Merchant—A Vignette Woodcut by William Harvey 42
Portrait of St. Augustine by the Famous Florentine Painter, Sandro Botticelli 50
A Page from St. Augustine's "La Cite de Dieu" 54
Portrait of Cervantes, from an Old Steel Engraving 58
Don Quixote Discoursing to Sancho Panza 62
Thomas à Kempis, the Frontispiece of an Edition of "The Imitation of Christ" 64
The Best-Known Portrait of Edward FitzGerald, Immortalized by his Version of the "Rubá'iyát" 74
A Page from an Ancient Persian Manuscript Copy of the "Rubá'iyát" with Miniatures in Color 78
One of the Gilbert James Illustrations of the "Rubá'iyát" 80
Portrait of Dante, by Giotto di Bondone 84
Page from "Dante's Inferno," printed by Nicolo Lorenzo near the Close of the Fifteenth Century 88
Portrait of Milton, after the Original Crayon Drawing from Life by William Faithorne, at Bayfordbury, Herts 100
Milton Dictating to his Daughters—After an Engraving by W. C. Edwards, from the Famous Painting by Romney