Glances Back Through Seventy Years
Glances Back Through Seventy Years
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GBPThis autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820–1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped found two successful but short-lived newspapers, the Pictorial Times and the Illustrated Times. From 1865 Vizetelly worked in Paris and Berlin as a foreign correspondent for the Illustrated London News, and also wrote and published several books. He later became a publisher of foreign novels and gained notoriety for his translations of Emile Zola which challenged strict Victorian laws on obscenity and led to his prosecution and imprisonment. His book is a fascinating blend of public and personal history, providing an insight into the turbulent literary world of nineteenth-century Europe. Volume 2 begins in 1858 with the marriage of Princess Vicky and concludes with Vizetelly's return to England in 1878.
Product details
March 2010Paperback
9781108009300
456 pages
216 × 26 × 140 mm
0.58kg
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Table of Contents
- 22. The French detective and his smart subordinate
- 23. An expedition to Homburg
- 24. The paper duty agitation
- 25. On board the Great Eastern during the explosion
- 26. A suspicious fire at Campden House
- 27. The Shakspeare tercentenary committee and Mr Thackeray
- 28. French apartments
- 29. Odd ways of getting a living in Paris
- 30. New Year's Day in Paris
- 31. European potentates in Paris
- 32. At the prefecture of police
- 33. With the court at Compiègne
- 34. On and about the boulevards
- 35. In Brittany
- 36. The Italian colony
- 37. Boulevardian journalists
- 38. In the vineyards of the Médoc
- 39. A conflagration among the Bordeaux shipping
- 40. The Pantin tragedy
- 41. At Troppman's execution
- 42. In the wake of Rory of the Hills.
