Isaac D’Israeli’s Calamities and Quarrels of Authors gathers anecdotes and essays on the misfortunes, feuds, and rivalries of writers through history. Father of the future prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, the author was a tireless collector of literary curiosities and biography.
The book recounts the poverty, persecution, and bitter disputes that have dogged men of letters, mixing scholarship with gossip and moral reflection. A classic of literary anecdote, it offers a vivid, sometimes cautionary picture of the writing life in earlier centuries. Download the free EPUB of this entertaining chronicle of authorship’s hazards and quarrels.