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James Huneker. Visionaries

Visionaries

Table of Contents

A MASTER OF COBWEBS

I

II

III

II

THE EIGHTH DEADLY SIN

I. THE SERMON

III. THE CIRCUS OF CANDLES

III

THE PURSE OF AHOLIBAH

I. THE AVIARY

II. ACROSS THE STYX

III. AVERNUS

IV

REBELS OF THE MOON

V

THE SPIRAL ROAD

I. THE STRAND OF DREAMS

II. THE PANACEA OF CORUSCATION

III. THE FIERY CHARIOT

VI

A MOCK SUN

I

II

III

VII

ANTICHRIST

VIII

THE ETERNAL DUEL

IX

THE ENCHANTED YODLER

A MARIENBAD ELEGY. I

II

III

X

THE THIRD KINGDOM

I. A DOUBTER

II. TWO DREAMERS

III. THE DOVE

XI

THE HAUNTED HARPSICHORD

[In the Style of Mock-Mediæval Fiction]

XII

THE TRAGIC WALL

I. BY THE DARK POOL

II. THE CRIMSON SPLASH

III. MOON-RAYS

XIII

A SENTIMENTAL REBELLION

I

II

III

XIV

HALL OF THE MISSING FOOTSTEPS

I

II

III

IV

XV

THE CURSORY LIGHT

XVI

AN IRON FAN

XVII

THE WOMAN WHO LOVED CHOPIN

I

II

III

XVIII

THE TUNE OF TIME

II

III

XIX

NADA

XX

PAN

I

II

BOOKS BY JAMES HUNEKER

IVORY APES AND PEACOCKS

WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF DOSTOÏEVSKY

NEW COSMOPOLIS

THE PATHOS of DISTANCE

A Book of a Thousand and One Moments

PROMENADES of an IMPRESSIONIST

EGOISTS

A Book of Supermen. STENDHAL, BAUDELAIRE, FLAUBERT, ANATOLE FRANCE, HUYSMANS, BARRÈS, HELLO, BLAKE, NIETZSCHE, IBSEN, AND MAX STIRNER

With Portrait and Facsimile Reproductions

ICONOCLASTS:

A Book of Dramatists

OVERTONES:

A Book of Temperaments. WITH FRONTISPIECE PORTRAIT OF RICHARD STRAUSS

MEZZOTINTS IN MODERN MUSIC

BRAHMS, TSCHAÏKOWSKY, CHOPIN, RICHARD STRAUSS, LISZT, AND WAGNER

FRANZ LISZT

WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS

CHOPIN:

The Man and His Music. WITH ETCHED PORTRAIT

VISIONARIES

MELOMANIACS

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James Huneker

Published by Good Press, 2019

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She was thankful that he did not attempt to play the rôle of fatherly adviser. His eyes were quite sincere when he answered her:—

"What you say, Alixe—" the familiarity brought with it no condescending reverberations—"has bothered me more than once. I shall be just as frank on my side. No, your husband has but little talent; original talent, none. He is mediocre—wait!" She started, her cheeks red with the blood that fled her heart when she heard this doleful news. "Wait! There are qualifications. In the first place, what do you expect from an American?"

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