books by Hesperus Press

books by Hesperus Press

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Life of a Good-for-Nothing (Hesperus Classics)

Joseph Von Eichendorff

Hesperus Press, 2002

brilliant!
well, im actually in the middle of writing an essay on the implementation of music in this book, in a romantic literature seminar in freiburg, germany. this is one of the most brilliant books we've read during the entire semester, exactly because, upon first reading ...

The Foundling (Hesperus Classics)
Charlotte Bronte

Hesperus Press, 2004

Written when she was 17, The Foundling is a classic fairy tale set in the imagined kingdom of Verdopolis which will delight fans of Charlotte Brontë?s later work. Abandoned as a baby, Edward Sydney finds a ?protector? in Mr. Hasleden, a rich local landowner who declares an interest in the child and claims him as his own. The boy grows up ...

On Tremendous Trifles (On)
G. K. Chesterton

Hesperus Press, 2008

In a popular series of articles first published in 1909, G. K. Chesterton sought to celebrate the everyday objects and activities that are frequently taken for granted and yet which enrich life inestimably. These essays offer an uplifting tour of the preoccupations of one of the preeminent writers of his day and serve as a valuable insight into ...

The Secret (Hesperus Classics)

Charlotte Bronte

Hesperus Press, 2006

Little-Known But Great
What can I say? All three Bronte sisters were geniuses. This volume contains a few of Charlotte's little-known works about the imaginary kingdom of Verdopolis. This isn't a fantasy, though. It's pretty much, for her time, realistic fiction set in a made-up place that ...

The Platform of Time: Memoirs of Family and Friends (Non Fiction)
Virginia Woolf

Hesperus Press, 2008

Taking family, friends, and servants as her subjects, Virginia Woolf presents a series of impressions of the people around her. As she describes their lives?including an in-depth piece on her nephew Julian Bell and sketches on Bloomsbury figures Lady Ottoline Morrell and Lady Strachey?she also reveals much about her own attitudes on the War, her ...

Essays of Elia (Hesperus Classics)
Charles Lamb

Hesperus Press, 2008

Published under the pseudonym "Elia," Charles Lamb?s book, by turns witty, insightful, self-deprecating, and philosophical, offers an unusually warm, human glimpse of life in a circle that included such luminaries as Coleridge, Wordsworth, and William Hazlitt. Published in The London Magazine in the early 1820s, these often nostalgic essays are ...

My Discovery of America (Hesperus Modern Voices)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Hesperus Press, 2005

Too bad he was a Commie
Anything Mayakovsky had written, drawn, or scripted is in my book fantastic. I even got the last poem he had ever written tattooed down my arm. Brilliant read

The Captain's Daughter (Hesperus Classics)

Alexander Pushkin

Hesperus Press, 2007

'When I hang a man I hang him....
.... when I pardon, I pardon. That's the way I am.' This love story with its fairy tale ending was charming to me despite the horrors of the historical rise of a usurper to the rightful throne in Russia. It's hero survives on the basis of a chance encounter and ...

How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion: The Bartender's Guide
Jerry Thomas

Hesperus Press, 2008

First published in 1862, this seminal work in bartending was the first drink book ever published in the United States. Collected here by Jerry Thomas?America?s most famous bartender?are dozens of cocktail recipes, from old standards to mixes invented by Thomas himself, including his trademark drink, The Blue Blazer. Guides for mixing drinks of all ...

Colonel Chabert (Hesperus Classics)

Honore de Balzac

Hesperus Press, 2003

Essential Balzac
It's a relatively short novella and one of works of famous La Comédie humaine , the monument achievement of the modern French Literatue. The book begins with tattered and disfigured old man visits a law office of attorney Deville and rather malicious joke on this ...

The Fatal Eggs (Hesperus Modern Voices)

Mikhail Bulgakov

Hesperus Press, 2005

Genius
Bulgakov is wonderful. This story is a charming expression of Bulgakov's sentiments of Soviet Russia. I am constantly amazed that Bulgakov managed to escape the Culling that was suffered by so many of Russia's intellectuals.

Hadji Murat (Hesperus Classics)

Leo Tolstoy

Hesperus Press, 2003

Sublime
Harold Bloom, the renowned literary critic, regards it as the sublime in prose. It has even been praised by Wittgenstein. In this story, Tolstoy details the surrender by Hadji Murat, a Chechen rebel, to the Russians, and what follows from this. It is written with all ...

A Journey Around My Room (Hesperus Classics)

Xavier de Maistre

Hesperus Press, 2004

Interesting but not great.
I like this book, and it is interesting, but it's not worth the money. I would recomend it if you got it from the library.

On Wine and Hashish (Hesperus Classics)

Charles Baudelaire

Hesperus Press, 2002

Essential Background
Essential background reading for anyone at all interested in Baudelaire - after all, one of his fondest sayings was 'Enivrez-vous!' - 'Get drunk!', and he often celebrated intoxicated states in remarkable style. Although he is not to be side-lined as a writer whose ...

On Not Knowing Greek (On)
Virginia Woolf

Hesperus Press, 2008

Taken from The Common Reader , these essays take the form of a series of reflections on diverse literary topics, brought to life by Woolf?s extensive knowledge, lively wit, and piercing insight. "For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know ...