This is a thought provoking set of essays by the controversial Havelock Ellis, who is famed for his writings on human sexuality. The New Spirit was his first book. These essays contain Havelock Ellis' thoughts on the lives, the motives and the works of five great authors: Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen, and Tolstoy - a fascinating literary examination of some great intellectual thinkers.
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OF the three intellectual heroes of the Revolution, Diderot exercised the least apparent influence; he was, for the most part, too far ahead of his time, and his tremendous energies were frequently either concealed or dissipated along innumerable channels. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leaves of Grass, Atta Troll, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, Anna Karenina, Dead Souls, Jonas Lie, Knud Ibsen, Love's Comedy, Pastor Manders, The Cossacks New!
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OF the three intellectual heroes of the Revolution, Diderot exercised the least apparent influence; he was, for the most part, too far ahead of his time, and his tremendous energies were frequently either concealed or dissipated along innumerable channels. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leaves of Grass, Atta Troll, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Song of Myself, Walt Whitman, Anna Karenina, Dead Souls, Jonas Lie, Knud Ibsen, Love's Comedy, Pastor Manders, The Cossacks New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Surprise Me!
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- Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics) by Walt Whitman on 10 pages
- War and Peace by L.N. Tolstoy on 6 pages
- War and Peace by L. N. Tolstoi on 6 pages
- Song of Myself (Dover Thrift Editions) by Walt Whitman on 5 pages
- Peer Gynt : A Dramatic Poem (Oxford World's Classics) by Henrik Ibsen on 5 pages
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- Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder by R. B. Kershner on 10 pages
- James Joyce and Sexuality by Richard Brown on 8 pages
- Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume 2 (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics) (v. 2) by Maurice Cowling on 5 pages
- Making Sexual History by Jeffrey Weeks on 4 pages
- Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires by Lucy Bland on 4 pages
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