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Author: Gouverneur Morris
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 690
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816) by his granddaughter, making extensive use of his letters and diary.
Author: Emily Kilpatrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1316395707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaurice Ravel's operas L'Heure espagnole (1907/1911) and L'Enfant et les sortilèges (1919–25) are pivotal works in the composer's relatively small œuvre. Emerging from periods shaped by very distinct musical concerns and historical circumstances, these two vastly different works nevertheless share qualities that reveal the heart of Ravel's compositional aesthetic. In this comprehensive study, Emily Kilpatrick unites musical, literary, biographical and cultural perspectives to shed new light on Ravel's operas. In documenting the operas' history, setting them within the cultural canvas of their creation and pursuing diverse strands of analytical and thematic exploration, Kilpatrick reveals crucial aspects of the composer's working life: his approach to creative collaboration, his responsiveness to cultural, aesthetic and musical debate, and the centrality of language and literature in his compositional practice. The first study of its kind, this book is an invaluable resource for students, specialists, opera-goers and devotees of French music.
Author: Stendhal
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2021-03-22
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1528765311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.
Author: Michael Fried
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1988-09-15
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780226262130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this widely acclaimed work, Michael Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism are viewed and understood. Analyzing paintings produced between 1753 and 1781 and the comments of a number of critics who wrote about them, especially Dennis Diderot, Fried discovers a new emphasis in the art of the time, based not on subject matter or style but on values and effects.
Author: William J. Samarin
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rachilde
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1603292551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Author: Camille Flammarion
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-07-30
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781478269533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI WAS seventeen. She was called Uranie. Was Uranie, then, a young girl, fair, with blue eyes, innocent, but eager for knowledge? No, she was simply what she has always been, one of the nine muses; she who presided over astronomy, and whose celestial glance animated and directed the spheral choir; she was the heavenly idea hovering above earthly dullness; she had neither the palpitating flesh, nor the heart whose pulsations can be transmitted through space, nor the soft warmth of humanity; but she existed, nevertheless, in a sort of ideal world, superior to humanity, and always pure; and yet she was human enough in name and form to produce in the soul of a youth a vivid and profound impression; to awaken in that soul an undefined and undefinable sentiment of admiration: almost of love.
Author: Max Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-02-25
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1134386729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive and detailed, this is the first ever study of ancient beer and its distilling, consumption and characteristics. Examining evidence from Greek and Latin authors, the book demonstrates the contributions the Europeans made to beer throughout the ages.
Author: Frederic Bastiat
Publisher: Simon Publications
Published: 2001-08-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931541022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, written by the celebrated nineteenth century French economist propagating free trade, reads as it was written yesterday.
Author: Marijke de Valck
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive study of film festivals that marks key historical moments and offers surprising insights into the workings of a highly influentiual cultural network
