Website review: Curiosities of Literature
Naruwan discovered this in Literature
•5 reviews since Jan 10, 2005
literature, curiosities, blog
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Naruwan discovered 42 months ago- Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1766-1848) published online in installments.
- b-bear rated 13 months ago
- Read the terrific Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli (1766-1848). D'Israeli was the father of Benjamin Disraeli, the famously crypto-Jewish Prime Minister of England and popular novelist during the reign of Queen Victoria. Isaac D'Israeli also worked harder than any other Romantic (including his own son) to popularise literature for bibliophiles and make reading a joy for the curious. His cabinets of literature, miscellanies written in his ebullient style and stocked full of anecdotes and curious information about authors and books, inspired countless other similar works. D'Israeli's work remains the best among the species. The online Curiosities of Literature has been taken from an old nineteenth century edition. It is all text and no pictures or fascimilies. So if you are really curious, you should rush out to a second-hand store and buy an old illustrated copy of D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, if only to hold the object of curiosity in your hands. I am such an enamoured lover of literature and books that I have bought two nineteenth-century copies of D'Israeli's miscellany. Here they are below - don't they make you curious to see what's inside? Here I am, shamelessly plugging my own bookshelf again!
- RUMahale rated 16 months ago
- Curiosities of Literature
- sweetpotatoes rated 17 months ago
- From the page: "This has been an incrementally-published online presentation of Isaac D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature, a compilation of book-lore whose first volume was issued in 1791, with further instalments being added in 1793, 1807, 1817 and 1823. Most of the articles were scanned from an undated (but probably 1870s or 1880s) single-volume edition of the work, the text in which was reproduced from an older (1820s) edition. The "Lost Articles" appeared in early (1790s) editions of the Curiosities only to be omitted from later editions."
- AnthonyWheeler rated 27 months ago
- "An incrementally-published online presentation of Isaac Disraeli's Curiosities of Literature, a compendium of book-lore first published in 1791"
