EGOISTS,

A BOOK OF SUPERMEN


STENDHAL, BAUDELAIRE, FLAUBERT, ANATOLE FRANCE,

HUYSMANS, BARRÈS, NIETZSCHE, BLAKE, IBSEN,

STIRNER, AND ERNEST HELLO


BY

JAMES HUNEKER

WITH PORTRAIT OF STENDHAL; UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF
FLAUBERT; AND ORIGINAL PROOF PAGE OF MADAME BOVARY

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1909

Henry Beyle — Stendhal — Redrawn by Edwin B. Childfrom a crayon portrait.


TO
DR. GEORG BRANDES
"Leb' Ich, wenn andere leben?"—Goethe

The studies gathered here first appeared in Scribner'sMagazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the North AmericanReview, the New York Times, and the New York Sun.


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