Скачать книгу - The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion

As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are "whimsical". Taken individually, they speak the truth in different ways.

A real storyteller can make a great story out of anything, even the most trivial occurrence. The candid, ironic, playful, and petulant sketches are indispensable to our understanding of a harried genius during thirteen quite amazing years.

«The Centre for Irish and Celtic Studies at the University of Ulster hosted at Coleraine, between the 24th and 26th August 2000, a very successful and informative conference on ‘Celtic Literatures in the Twentieth Century’. The lectures and the discussions were of a high standard, and it was the intention of the organisers to edit and publish the proceedings as soon as possible thereafter. Unfortunately, due to dif culties in assembling some of the papers, this was not possible and, consequently, publication has been delayed much longer than was originally anticipated. Despite this delay, we feel that those papers which we have received merit publication at this time, not only because of their intrinsicmerits, but also because they represent the views of the authors on their respective topics at the turn of the twenty rst century and will hopefully be of value to those interested in the state of the modern Celtic literatures.»

Полный вариант заголовка: «Knud Leems Nachrichten von den Lappen in Finmarken, ihrer Sprache, Sitten, Gebrauche, und ehemaligen heidnischen Religion / Mit Anm. von J. E. Gunner; Aus dem Dan. ubers. [by J. J. Volckmann]».

Полный вариант заголовка: «A view of the internal evidence of the Christian religion / [by Soame Jenyns]».