Project Gutenberg 2005-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 98 Faguet, Émile 1847 1916 Faguet, Emile Faguet, Auguste-Émile Gordon, Home 1871 1956 Gordon, Home Seton Charles Montagu, Sir, Bart. Initiation into Literature Reading ease score: 45.0 (College-level). Difficult to read. Text file produced by Ted Garvin, Marlo Dianne, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "Initiation into Literature" by Émile Faguet is a literary guidebook written during the late 19th century. The book is designed to introduce beginners to a broad sweep of literary history, starting from ancient writings and tracing the development of literature through various cultures and epochs, including Indian, Hebraic, Greek, Roman, and medieval literature. Faguet aims to spark curiosity and encourage further study, presenting an organized panorama of literary progress. The beginning of "Initiation into Literature" features a preface by the author outlining his intentions, emphasizing the book's role as a repository for those new to the study of literature. The opening chapters immediately delve into ancient Indian literature, discussing sacred texts like the Vedas, the emergence of Buddhism and its literature, and the famous epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana. Additionally, Faguet highlights the key characteristics of these works, such as their poetic style, moral teachings, and the inclusion of animals as significant characters—a reflection of the cultural context surrounding Indian literary traditions. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Literature -- History and criticism PN Text Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature 320905 320906 2024-10-04T07:53:56.321099 2023-10-04T07:30:37.785141 text/html text/html 321818 2013-05-22T09:14:30 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 112860 2013-05-22T09:14:56 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 184220 2024-10-04T07:54:03.563068 application/epub+zip 189464 2024-10-04T07:53:58.638102 application/epub+zip 189464 2024-10-04T07:53:57.144075 application/epub+zip 392022 2024-10-04T07:54:07.103041 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 369963 2024-10-04T07:54:02.698110 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 325902 2022-09-04T10:59:12.581718 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 276453 276300 2024-10-04T07:53:55.517102 2023-10-04T07:30:37.222151 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 275949 2013-05-22T09:11:04 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 107638 2013-05-22T09:14:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 275965 2013-05-22T09:10:50 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 107405 2013-05-22T09:14:56 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22214 2024-10-04T07:54:07.239037 application/rdf+xml 14133 2024-10-04T07:53:57.866077 image/jpeg 3930 2024-10-04T07:53:57.584093 image/jpeg 180168 2024-10-04T07:53:56.347100 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia