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Franchesco Petrarct Spoke from Beyond the Grave:
Greeting.---It is possible that some word of me may have come to you, though even this is doubtful, since an insignificant and obscure name will scarcely penetrate far in either time or space. If, however, you should have heard of me, you may desire to know what manner of man I was, or what was the outcome of my labours, especially those of which some description or, at any rate, the bare titles may have reached you. 

The Life of Petrarct

Shakespeare's Complete Works:

Three Bronte Sisters:


Emily Bronte:
Wuthering Heights:



Heathcliff was haunted from beyond the grave by a ghostly apparition of his true love!








Charlotte Bronte:

Jane Eyre












Ann Bronte:


Tenant of Wildfell Hall










Honre Balzac:

Beatrix; The Comedy of Humanity











Rembrandt:


Elnletung
(The Complete Drawings)

Bronte Sisters

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THREE SISTERS:
FOR WHOM
HISTORY CHANGED FOREVER
 

Examiner "This is a strange book. It is not without evidences of considerable power: but, as a whole, it is wild, confused, disjointed, and improbable; and the people who make up the drama, which is tragic enough in its consequences, are savages ruder than those who lived before the days of Homer."

The Bronte sisters: Charlotte (born 21 April 1816), Emily (born 30 July 1818), and Anne (born 17 January 1820); were all born under the same dreary household in the gloom and dank of the Yorkshire Moors, admist death and decline. 

Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.

Needless to say the critics were not amused with this rise of humanism and the following are some reviews of the works of Wuthering Heights, the book that changed everything!



EMILY BRONTE

Wuthering Heights:

H. F. Chorley of the Athenaeum said that it was a "disagreeable story" and that the 'Bells' (Brontës) "seem to affect painful and exceptional subjects".







Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30th 1818 just as the Industrial Revolution was to begin in earnest. Wuthering Heights was her only book and now considered a classic of English Literature. Her two sisters, Elizabeth 1815 and Maria 1814, both died at young ages, while Emily was still the tender age of nine.

After her sister Ann died in 1848, at the tragically young age of 40, Emily never wrote again and this... her only book lies in repose as sole repository and testiment of her unique genuis. It is my personal favorite and has made a lasting impression for literature to this day...

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Charlotte Comes Next:

Jane Eyre:

The Atlas review called it a "strange, inartistic story," but commented that every chapter seems to contain a "sort of rugged power." Summarising the novel: "We know nothing in the whole range of our fictitious literature which presents such shocking pictures of the worst forms of humanity. There is not in the entire dramatis persona, a single character which is not utterly hateful or thoroughly contemptible ... Even the female characters excite something of loathing and much of contempt. Beautiful and loveable in their childhood, they all, to use a vulgar expression, "turn out badly."








This somber tomb was based largly on reality of the times, her being put in a school called Roe Head Mirifield under Miss Wooler, as their mother died early on in 1821 and their father, Patrick Bronte outlived them all and died on June 7, 1861 at age 84.



The sisters originally published their poems and novels under masculine pseudonyms, following the custom of the times practised by female writers.

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Then Finally Comes the Youngest Sister Ann:


The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

Graham's Lady Magazine "How a human being could have attempted such a book as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen chapters, is a mystery. It is a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors."

This is young Ann's Second Novel, published just one year befor her tragic death which forever silenced Emily.  It's largly based on personal experience, however to well be considered in the "Slice of Life Style."

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The Sister's stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the for being the best literature, but more for their passion and originality.  So what do banal pedantic critics of the times really know?

The American Whig Review "Respecting a book so original as this, and written with so much power of imagination, it is natural that there should be many opinions. Indeed, its power is so predominant that it is not easy after a hasty reading to analyze one's impressions so as to speak of its merits and demerits with confidence. We have been taken and carried through a new region, a melancholy waste, with here and there patches of beauty; have been brought in contact with fierce passions, with extremes of love and hate, and with sorrow that none but those who have suffered can understand. This has not been accomplished with ease, but with an ill-mannered contempt for the decencies of language, and in a style which might resemble that of a Yorkshire farmer who should have endeavored to eradicate his provincialism by taking lessons of a London footman. We have had many sad bruises and tumbles in our journey, yet it was interesting, and at length we are safely arrived at a happy conclusion."

 

Arragon Publishing For Fine Art Prose The beauty of prose art, as comely as Portia, shall emanate once again, hopefully, not haplessly, pursued here at Arragon Publishing.  Indeed, Shakespeare himself noted a glaring internal contradiction in prose art literature versus commercial  markets in the Merchant of Venice, and which contradiction still currently exists, even thriving to this day, and of which Shakespeare subconsciously portrayed  through acute awareness and astute observation.    One contradicting of pure flourishing pro forma art literature in the

Author's mind's eye, and the other: the de facto literature denuded
of true artistic value by pure mercantilism, haplessly churned out by
the modern presses for pecuniary gains... for mere arrogance!, is
glaring to all but the most jaundiced of eyes. 

Author's Sobriquet
Dave DeKeesh DKS 
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There must be an alternative:

  
Much earlier than Merchant of Venice, Catherine of Aragon ushered in Renaissance Humanism: 
reform of cultural and educational mores to create a citizenry able to ascertain
the historic and moral philosophy which is promulgated by 
Francesco Petrarca (Petrach):

Greeting.---It is possible that some word of me may have come to you, though even this is doubtful, since an insignificant and obscure name will
scarcely penetrate far in either time or space...  taught me by experience
the truth I had long before read in books, that youth and pleasure are
vanity---nay, that the Author of all ages and times permits us miserable
mortals, puffed up with emptiness, thus to wander about, until finally,
coming to a tardy consciousness of our sins, we shall
learn to know ourselves.

Francesco Petrarca

1304-1374

  

Just as Petrarca began ushering civilization out of the Dark Ages to the light of Humanism with his letter to Posterity,
Arragon Publishing shall usher in a new way of looking at prose. 
Art in prose has been in decline for the past sixty years, with much
of the available literature consisting of a somewhat limited 'commercial value.' 

Now thanks to the digital age, Fine Art Literature may now usher in a small
porthole in which art may begin to flow, in which to invigorate the mainstream
literary genre; in which now is filled with a plethora of literary chimeras,
of mere effete bon nots of true gripping literary art: alas, the former of which
is the terrible bane of these modern times. 

Modern literature available heretofore is merely useful for a base form of pecuniary consumption, lacking renaissance humanism.  Which do you prefer?  
Modern Publishing House's commercialization of a once noble art form;
or pure prose art?  

The former prevails, and at it's very best, the current literature nowadays is only
buttressed by an overriding motive of the Author as Artless Ingenue; naively
regarding himself the focal point of the novel... of the melodramatic
action figurine?  

However here, commercial interests lay a distant second to quality of prose and its essential embodiment of higher qualities, such as exploring germane
issues intrinsically in relation to the human condition.  Otherwise, at
Arragon Publishing there is no rules other than presentation of fine art prose,
especially regarding the human condition; only here; only in this exciting new 
venue: Arragon Publishing.

You will find to your delight several forms of prose art, so be sure to mark it on your favorites list to see again and again.

Short articles  

Audio versions of prose art (coming soon); updated on a daily basis: all for your edification and enjoyment, as well as some supplemental experimental 
visual media to augment the civil nature of this discourse. 


Prose Portraits: Stream of thought writing based on a visual or mental image.




Geothe once said ruefully:

A man is not truly civilized till each day he can enjoy a fine art painting,

fine wine, fine music and of course, fine art literature.

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Statement of Purpose

This site's sole purpose is to provide that 'Civilization' within a free
market driven economy, which may often neglect to achieve the
Pareto optimale allocation of fine art literature, as the purely 
market driven publishing house has a tendency to accent purely
motivated market profits above artistic humanism.  Banal pulp
is the result.  This site represents a decisive response to this 
glaring market failure, to provide fine art literature en masse. 
One need not neglect one at the expense of another, as truly
there is a another way!  Surly, there is a Third Way:
read An American Moll in the Original Prose Art section. 

Arragon Publishing History   Arragon publishing was founded New Years Day of 2011, or exactly on 1/1/11; upon a principal of a mixed market analytical approach.  There is a Third Way of presentation of art in a literary venue to address market failure through intervention.  Not only will the Classics be available in terms of a very select reading list, but also new artists who's time in the sun has not yet come, neglected by more commercial interests which stifle diversity.  So this forum allows them a avenue to exhibit fine art prose too.  Submissions are welcome, and if accepted, will be published by Arragon Publishing House as well.  In addition, a new form of Prose Art shall be explored in great depth here at Arragon: prose art of which fruition is in glaring contrast to the more modern commercial writers, who must pander and succumb to public whimsical taste, in terms of immediate gratification at the expense of erudition and true form or artistic substance.  Arragon Publishing House is one in which the boundaries of conventional literary mores shall be tested, explored, expanded and promulgated into the next milieu of artistic achievement: Rational Humanism. This site primarily represent the works of Dave DKS body of works collected and written over a ten year period from funding exclusively by the National Endowment of the Arts and Select Patrons of Fine Art Literature. Along with the traditional tales and long tombs, one may expect the surprisingly short vignettes comprising a rollicking Prose Portrait, in which stream of consciousness is paramount to substance.  Or one may hear a dramatic reading of a passage in the style of the effusive and at times inchoate style of Dylan Thomas!  Each brings it's own bubbly efflorescence to the palate of fine art prose. Welcome to Arragon Publishing House!  In honor of a Poet and a Prose Artist extraordinaire: William Shakespeare!  With but 15,000 words, he changed the world of fine art literature.   William Shakespeare's portrait, Tomb Inscription and his Signature.

Customer testimonials:    Fantastic Site!  I have enjoyed the amazing original works of prose art here as well as the readily available reading lists and downloads of timeless  literary artists.  The most educational, as well as inspirational source of Fine Art Literature on the Web.  Kudos!  Ever yours, A Patron of the Arts A House for Artists is a House for the Humanities and hence a house for all time.  Please continue to keep art for art's sake alive and flourishing  in these commercial times of ours.  As is won't a House is indeed needed today for fine art literature and the artists.  To wit, in Shakespeare's time: it is believed Shakespeare... "was a sharer in the Blackfriars Theatre as early as 1589, and concurred in the building of the Globe.  The contrary is apparent from documents recently published, and seemingly impugnable.  Richard Burbage (who became the most celebrated actor of the time) and his brother, Cuthbert Burbage, built the Globe Theatre in 1599.  They placed Shakespeare in the theatre, and made him and some others partners in the profits of "the House" (so-called-- a term which may at that time have designated the money paid at the doors, and perhaps something more.  At a later date-- later certainly than May 1603, when James I. came to the throne-- the Burbages re-entered upon the Blackfriars Theatre, which had been built by their father years before the Globe; and here also they placed Shakespeare and other actors." William M. Rossetti The Complete Works of Shakespeare London: Ward, Lock, and Co., Warwick House So be it so, 'the House," Arragon House, for Fine Art Literature, is the new "House" for a venue for fine art literature of modern days, incumbent for sharing with artists in door profits and something more... Sincerely, Shakespearean Sycophant    FEEL THE POWER OF ART!  Arragon Publishing Inc Arragon Publishing 330 555-1212 287 Lexington Ave Ste. #103 Lexington OH 44909 US       Email Address: Davekurt45@yahoo.com

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Greeting.---It is possible that some word of me may have come to you, though even this is doubtful, since an insignificant and obscure name will scarcely penetrate far in either time or space. If, however, you should have heard of me, you may desire to know what manner of man I was, or what was the outcome of my labours, especially those of which some description or, at any rate, the bare titles may have reached you. 

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Arragon publishing is a site devoted to fine art literature.  The Prince of Arragon, of course, is from the Merchant of Venice, a hapless suitor to Portia; and who better but the Shakespearean Bard's extant Character to introduce a new provocative literary art form: a new literary genre devoted exclusively to fine art literature of beauty equal to comely Portia?

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