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A collection of pen-portraits of authors and artists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Whistler, Rodin, Verlaine, and Oscar Wilde.
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American Authors, Artists, Authors, Biography, English Authors, Biographies, Artistes, Écrivains, CHR 1920, PRO Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)People
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), Anatole France (1844-1924), Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), Augustus Edwin John (1878-1961), Ernest Renan (1823-1892), George Meredith (1828-1909), Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Henri, 1891-1915 Gaudier-Brzeska, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823-1915), John Davidson (1857-1909), Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Michael Edward Hicks-Beach, 1st earl, 1837-1916 St. Aldwyn, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Paul Verlaine (1844-1896), Richard Francis Burton Sir (1821-1890), Richard Middleton (1882-1911), Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)Times
19th century, 20th centuryShowing 9 featured editions. View all 18 editions?
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Table of Contents
Contents: Carlyle
Renan
Whistler: artist and fighter
Oscar Wilde
John Davidson: ad memoriam
Richard Middleton: ad memoriam
Sir Richard Burton
George Meredith
Robert Browning
Swinburne: the poet of youth and revolt
Talks with Matthew Arnold
Guy de Maupassant
Talks with Paul Verlaine
Fabre
Maurice Maeterlinck
Rodin
Anatole France.
Edition Notes
"First published in 1915"--p. [iv]
Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the National Library of Canada. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1995.
xi, 314 p., [8] leaves of plates : ports. ; 23 cm.
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