Letters and Memories: Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley

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Kessinger Publishing, 1 июл. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 828
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman and novelist. He was the founding member of the Christian Socialist movement and was known for his controversy with Cardinal Newman. He was a chaplain to Queen Victoria, a rector at Eversley, Hampshire and was sympathetic to the Chartists. This book contains Mr. Kingsley's Letters and Memories. This collection of memorabilia came in large part from known and unknown correspondents who treasured and lent their letters to be published for the first time, from publishers who allowed quotations from Mr. Kingsley's published works; but above all from friends who eloquently bore witness to Kingsley's character and genius.

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Charles Kingsley, a clergyman of the Church of England, who late in his life held the chair of history at Cambridge University, wrote mostly didactic historical romances. He put the historical novel to new use, not to teach history, but to illustrate some religious truth. Westward Ho! (1855), his best-known work, is a tale of the Spanish main in the days of Queen Elizabeth I. Hypatia: New Foes with Old Faces (1853) is the story of a pagan girl-philosopher who was torn to pieces by a Christian mob. The story is strongly anti-Roman Catholic.. Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful Hereward the Wake, or The Watchful (1866) is a tale of a Saxon outlaw. The Water-Babies (1863), written for Kingsley's youngest child, "would be a tale for children were it not for the satire directed at the parents of the period," said Andrew Lang. Alton Locke (1850) and Yeast (1851) reflect Kingsley's leadership in "muscular Christianity" and his dramatization of social issues.

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НазваниеLetters and Memories: Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley
АвторCharles Kingsley
Издание:перепечатанное
ИздательKessinger Publishing, 2003
ISBN0766170179, 9780766170179
Количество страницВсего страниц: 828
  
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