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Gaston De Latour is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for its own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for intermedial and cross-disciplinary criticism, and made 'style' the watchword for creativity and life. Everywhere creating themes and resonances that span his narrative, the author's voice in Gaston de Latour is intensely personal; and the reader's experience is intimate, almost invasive. Although unfinished and first posthumously published in 1896, the novel was hailed by Richard Le Gallienne 'as sensitively beautiful as in his most perfect work, as rich in delicate colour and music, and as remarkable for exquisite detail.' This edition includes six additional suppressed chapters by Pater of varying degrees of completeness as a continuation of his interrupted originally-serialized text. This revised text (now a third longer than the posthumously published edition) appears here accompanied by a scholarly Introduction, Explanatory Annotation, and Apparatus Criticus. As it now stands, Pater's never-to-be-completed Gaston de Latour seems very much to belong to artistic modernism, like a 'conceptual' work of art-an idea not formally actualized but open to ranges of realization in the process of creation.
"The great English prose work has been written and perfectly written and you and I would do well to lay down our pens. . . . I believe that the worst page of prose Pater wrote is better than the best that anybody else ever wrote." - George Moore Set in the second century A.D. against the backdrop of a Roman Empire on the verge of decline, "Marius the Epicurean" is the story of the philosophical and spiritual development of Marius, a young Italian serving as amanuensis to the great emperor Marcus Aurelius. Marius explores the various systems of philosophy in search of an elusive vision of love, moving from Epicureanism to Cyrenaicism and finally Stoicism before finally finding what he had sought in the terrible beauty of Christian martyrdom. "Marius the Epicurean" is the rare novel that is as significant for its style as for its plot. Told in Pater's uniquely exquisite and poetic prose, "Marius" became a profound influence on writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent movements of the late Victorian era, including Pater's former student, Oscar Wilde. It is also an important forerunner of the psychological novels of Joyce, Woolf, James, and Conrad, all of whom absorbed into their fictional techniques Pater's emphasis on the rendering of impressions and his presentation of character and point of view. This new edition, the first in over two decades, is based on the first edition of 1885 and features a new introduction and notes by Pater specialist Gerald Monsman. Also included is a generous selection of supplementary materials, such as contemporary reviews and excerpts from Pater's manuscripts, some of which are published here for the first time.
" A] book of strange adventures, of ghostly, nightmare visions; you
will want to read it at a sitting, but do not begin it at bedtime
unless your nerves are in a thoroughly healthy condition" - "The
Reader"
"It would be difficult to find a novel more unusual or more
original. That it is beautifully written, full of poetic passages,
and contains many fascinating descriptions ...] will be regarded as
a matter of course by those who have read any of his] preceding
books, and therefore know that John Trevena is unquestionably one
of the most notable of living writers." - "New York Times," Jan.
10, 1915
The narrator of "Tenebrae" inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in
the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their
mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse of opium and alcohol. This
nameless narrator is a morbid young man who passes most of his time
in a room painted all black, poring over arcane manuscripts dealing
with the mysteries of death, while sipping garishly coloured
liquors brewed by his uncle or cups of coffee flavoured with
arsenic.
Picking up where "The King's Assegai" (1894) left off, "The White Shield" (1895) continues the story of Untuswa, the young Zulu warrior, now one of the chief indunas to King Umzilikazi. The Ndebele people, now an established and prosperous nation, seek to expand their power by conquering neighbouring peoples, but Umzilikazi and Untuswa face a number of dangers. Within the tribe, a conspiracy is brewing to overthrow them, and meanwhile, the young Ndebele nation risks destruction from external forces, such as white Boer settlers and the ferocious Zulu army. With the help of the king's fabled white shield and two "sorcerers"-a white missionary priest and a beautiful young Zulu woman-Untuswa will face the threats looming against his people and attempt once again to win victory and honour. The second of Mitford's tetralogy of novels peopled entirely by Zulu characters, "The White Shield" is a thrilling tale of war, love, and magic that remains as exciting today as when first published. This edition includes a new introduction by the foremost Mitford scholar, Gerald Monsman, as well as notes and contextual appendices.
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