‎MINDSZENTY József (Cardinal) (& various transl.)‎
‎Memoirs‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume I‎

‎New York - London 1900 The Colonial Press Cloth ‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume I by Philippe de Commines, Marguerite de Valois, Duc de Sully, Cardinal de Richelieu, Cardinal de Retz, Madame de Montespan, Duc de Saint-Simon, Madame Campan, Madame Roland, Prince de Talleyrand, Madame de Remusat, Madame Junot, with a special introduction by George Saintsbury The World's Great Classics, University Collection, limited to One Thousand Sets of which this is number 230 Editorial light green cloth, hard cover, upperside bookblock gilded, two other sides untrimmed, 24 x 16 cm, XII and 410 pages, 3 full page illustraions, some wear on the covers, very clean inside in excellent condition‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume II‎

‎New York - London 1900 The Colonial Press Cloth ‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume II by Earl of Clarendon, John Evelyn, Samuel Pepys, Grammont-Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Horace Walpole, Aaron Burr, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, John Heneage Jess with special introduction by Andrew Lang, Edward Everett, The World's Great Classics, University Collection, limited to One Thousand Sets of which this is number 230 Editorial light green cloth, hard cover, upperside bookblock gilded, two other sides untrimmed, 24 x 16 cm, XII and 437 pages, 2 page wide illutrations, some wear on the covers, very clean inside in excellent condition‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume III and Annals‎

‎New York - London 1901 The Colonial Press Cloth ‎

‎Classic Memoirs, Revised Edition, Volume III byCharles V, Frederick The Great, Catherine II, Count de Mirabeau, Prince Von Metternich with special introduction by Robert Arnot and Annals, by J.Wolfgang Von Goethe The World's Great Classics, University Collection, limited to One Thousand Sets of which this is number 230 Editorial light green cloth, hard cover, upperside bookblock gilded, two other sides untrimmed, 24 x 16 cm, V and 175 pages, and XXII +260 pages, 3 page wide illustrations, some wear on the covers, very clean inside in excellent condition‎

‎A series of literary memoirs. A set of 41 books. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)‎

‎A series of literary memoirs. A set of 41 books. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Seriya literaturnykh memuarov. Komplekt iz 41-y knigi.M. Hudlit. 1971-1990. 1. Gusev N.N.-Two years with L.N. Tolstoy (1973). 4. Kern A.P.-Memories. Diaries. Correspondence (1974). 5. A.S. Pushkin in memoirs of contemporaries. In two volumes (1974). 6. M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin in memoirs of contemporaries. In two volumes (1975). 7. Sukhotina-Tolstaya T.L.-Memories (1976). 8. V.G. Belinsky in memoirs of contemporaries (1977). 9. Tolstaya S.A.-Dnevnikiy in 2 volumes (1978). 10. A.S. Griboyedov in memoirs of contemporaries (1980). 11. M. Gorky in memoirs of contemporaries. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbae45ac25b2fb0fe6‎

‎Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of the Enlightenment. Samuel Madden's 'Memoirs of the Twentieth Century' (1733)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 460 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503606026.‎

‎Summary Published anonymously in 1733, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century is one of the earliest futuristic novels known in Anglophone and Euro-American literature. It foregrounds an acceleration of history brought about by an increasing degree of global interconnectedness, and the exclusion of prophetism and astrology as credible ways to know the future. The work of Samuel Madden, an Irish writer and philanthropist of Whig sympathies, it consists of a collection of diplomatic letters composed in the 1990s, which the narrator claims were brought to him from the time to come by a supernatural entity. Through these correspondences, twentieth-century world scenarios are spread out before the reader, in which British naval power rules the waves and international commerce, while the transnational scheming of the Jesuits threatens the independence of weaker European courts. This book - which includes a study followed by an annotated edition of the text - assesses the cultural significance of this literary work, as an apt observatory on how historical time as a cultural construction was shaped, during the eighteenth century, by new forms of transnational circulation of information, and by the dubious space carved out in European culture by seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century debates on the nature of historical knowledge. Through and by means of the Memoirs case study, this volume aims to contribute to a wider cultural history of the future and speculative fiction. The novel's ironic distancing of beliefs considered to be superstitious and absurd - such as divination techniques and occult and magical disciplines - offers an exceptional testimony to the negotiation of the boundaries of verisimilitude and credibility within a religious enlightenment. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Knowledge, Power, and Time in the Age of the Enlightenment Part I. Samuel Madden's Eighteenth-Century Memoirs from the Future I. Where was the Future? II. When was the Future? III. An Irish Whig between Philanthropism and Literature IV. An Eighteenth-Century Twentieth Century V. An (Unreliable) Historian of the Future VI. A 'good genius' and the 'scene of things below' VII. Empirical Science, Global Consciousness, and 'the History of Future Times' VIII. Blurring the Dichotomy between History and Fiction IX. Satirising Past Futures X. 'Publishing' the Letters XI. 'This prodigious society': Anti-Jesuit Satire XII. Whose Credulity, whose Credibility XIII. Bookish Mysteries and an 'alternate George VI' XIV. Concluding Remarks Part II. Memoirs of the Twentieth Century A Note on the Text Samuel Madden, Memoirs of the Twentieth Century Notes to the Text Bibliography Index ‎