Biographical and Historical Essays (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Biographical and Historical Essays (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas de Quincey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical and Historical Essays The paper on Professor Wilson has not before been printed in the American edition, and it is intended in a subsequent volume to reprint an interesting series of reminiscences on the same subject not hitherto pub lished either in the Scotch or in the American edition. The saucy paper on Wilhelm Meister, and the final paper on Anecdotage also, both appear in America for the first time in this edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.