Authorized Images: Charles Dickens


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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Charles Dickens: Well over 100 venerable postcards of one of the world's most beloved novelists, most appearing in book form for the first time. Covering the writer's entire life, the images are supported by extensive captions giving information about the postcards themselves as well as their relationship to the author's biography. Also plentiful are rare illustrations of scenes from his best-known work.




Authorized Images: Jean de La Fontaine, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Baudelaire


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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: La Fontaine, Balzac, and Baudelaire The many fables of La Fontain, written in French so refined many in that nation consider his writing the quintessence of their language. Balzac, famous for how much coffee he drank (50 or more cups per day) as much for his novels—and for constantly being in debt—was the author of dozens of bestsellers. In contrast, Baudelaire, a poet, was no bestseller but he was extremely well regarded by the Bohemian world and his reputation has continued to rise to ever more heights since his death. This book discusses the wide range of postcards issued at the turn of the century in celebration of this trio's awesome literary talent.




Authorized Images: Volume One


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The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards Volume 1: Introduction to (and History of) Literary Picture Postcards Volume One of Authorized Images is a comprehensive history of how the picture postcard came into existence. The Introduction then offers an overview of printed paper collectables which were the ancestors of postcards. These precursors include, for instance, the carte-de-visite, greeting cards, trading cards, and printed envelopes. Then the focus becomes more refined, examining the emergence of the specifically literary postcard, a category which includes, of course, portraits of authors, but, in addition, images of their homes, schools, graves, statues, relatives, lovers, monuments, as well as depictions of characters from their books.




Authorized Images: Volume 4


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The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes Volume 4 of Authorized Images contains substantial treatments via text and illustration of Homer, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charlotte Bronte in addition to a dozen others. Authors in Authorized Images Volume 4: Homer (fl. 8th c. BC) Caedmon (fl. 657-684) Pierre Abelard (1079-1142) John Milton (1608-1674) John Bunyan (1628-1688) Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) John Keats (1795-1821) Alexandre Dumas, père (1804-1864) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) Elizabeth Barrett-Browning (1806-1861) and Robert Browning (1812-1889) Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832-1910) Mark Twain (1835-1910) Sholom Aleichem (1853-1916) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) Colette (1873-1954) Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Oren Arnold (1900-1980)




Authorized Images: Volume 3


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The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes Volume 3 of Authorized Images features extensively illustrated profiles of Robert Burns, Friedrich Schiller, and Lord Byron along with 13 others. Authors profiled in Authorized Images Volume 3: Aeschylus (525–455 BC) Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) Luís de Camões (ca 1524-1580) Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) Daniel Defoe (ca 1660-1731) Pierre Beaumarchais (1732-1799) Robert Burns (1759-1796) Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1864) Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Hall Caine (1853-1931)




Authorized Images: Volume 2


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The Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Omnibus Edition is Comprised of 5 Volumes Volume 2 of Authorized Images is an examination of several renowned writers, including Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Molière. In all, there are 11 authors discussed at length in this volume. Authors profiled in depth in Authorized Images Volume 2: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Geoffrey Chaucer (ca 1340-1400) Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Molière (1622-1673) Johann von Goethe (1749-1832) Jane Austen (1775-1817) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) George Eliot (1819-1880) Acknowledgements




Authorized Images: William Shakespeare


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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: William Shakespeare William Shakespeare: hundreds of postcards, most over a century old, illustrating the life of the Bard, from his birth through to his burial, along with cards showing his family, his life in London, the statues raised in his honour, and dozens of painted scenes from his plays.




Authorized Images: Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Lermontov


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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Leo Tolstoy and Mikhail Lermontov Tolstoy, the most acclaimed of Russian authors, was so famous internationally that it is difficult to recall that other Russian fiction writers were as—or even more–popular with readers in Russia. Lermontov is one of those rivals, though it is Tolstoy who garnered the highest number of postcards in the early years of the medium. This book highlights the majestic range of cards printed to honour Tolstoy while alerting today's reader to the large number of cards in praise of Lermontov. With extensive explanatory text and captions.




Authorized Images: Lord Byron, Percy Byshhe Shelley, John Keats


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Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards: Byron, Shelley, Keats The three most famous Romantic poets in English were notorious in their day and have remained so more than two centuries later. As soon as picture postcards became commonly available in the 1890s, these three writers were frequent subjects, two of them famous for the poetry but even more so for their disreputable private lives, spiced with escapades that shock us even today for their audacity. The text addresses the scandal and the literary work, employing full captions to help explain the ongoing popularity of these young giants.




Authorized Images: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte


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Authorized Images: Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte: Women writers in the Victorian and Edwardian eras were sometimes widely read but almost never seen or heard. They did not give public readings of their work or appear in bookshops signing autographed copies of their wares. These low profiles were reflected in the number of postcards of them available for sale. Cards Those which could be purchased during the Golden Age of Postcards are well illustrated in this volume.