Sunday, November 4, 2012

Jos Maria De Ea De Queiroz

Jos Maria De Ea De Queiroz (1845-1900)

Jos Maria de Ea de Queiroz or Ea de Queirs (November 25, 1845August 16, 1900) is generally considered to be the greatest Portuguese writer in the realist style. Zola considered him to be far greater than Flaubert. The London Observer critics rank him with Dickens, Balzac and Tolstoy. Ea never officially rejected Catholicism, but was very critical of the Catholic Church of his time, and of Christianity in general as is evident in some of his novels. He used the old-fashioned spelling "Ea de Queiroz" and this is the form that appears on many editions of his works; the modern standard Portuguese spelling is "Ea de Queirs".



[El Mandarin]


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Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972)

Sir (Edward Montague) Compton Mackenzie (17 January 1883 - 30 November 1972) was a writer and a Scottish nationalist.



[The Altar Steps]


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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Henry Theophilus Finck

Henry Theophilus Finck

Henry Theophilus Finck (September 22, 1854 - 1926) was an American musical critic, born at Bethel, Missouri, and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he was taught piano and violincello. He taught himself Latin and Greek so thoroughly that he was able to enter Harvard as a sophomore in 1872. At Harvard, he studied philosophy, the classics, and music. He attended the Bayreuth Festival in 1876, of which he wrote accounts for newspapers and magazines. A subsequent fellowship from Harvard enabled him to spend three years in study in Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna. He became musical editor of the New York Evening Post



[Chopin And Other Musical Essays]


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