Contes Fantastiques Célèbres
Contes Fantastiques Célèbres

Author: Stanley Appelbaum

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2006-06-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486447138

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This collection of enchanting tales spotlights the works of 5 outstanding French writers prominent during the 19th century. Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. Informative introduction and notes.

Great French Tales of Fantasy/Contes fantastiques célèbres
Great French Tales of Fantasy/Contes fantastiques célèbres

Author: Stanley Appelbaum

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-10-24

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0486121712

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Included are Trilby, or the Elf of Argyll, by Charles Nodier, Théophile Gautier's The Amorous Dead Woman, as well as works by Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)
Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)

Author: Stanley Appelbaum

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0486122549

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French text and English translations on facing pages of six stories: Merimée's Mateo Falcone, Nerval's Sylvie, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's Hérodias, Zola's L’attaque du moulin,, de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle.

Pleasures and Days and "Memory" / Les Plaisirs Et Les Jours Et "Souvenir" Short Stories by Marcel Proust
Pleasures and Days and

Author: Marcel Proust

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2014-05-21

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 048649702X

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Set amid the salon society of fin-de-siècle Paris, these captivating tales offer satirical and moving depictions of metropolitan life. Proust's stunning debut chronicles the lives, loves, manners, and motivations of a fascinating cast of characters. These philosophical reflections, brief narratives, and prose poems established the 22-year-old author as a remarkable collector of exquisitely poignant sensations and recollections. Appropriate for intermediate-level students of French, this dual-language volume is equally suited to classroom use and to independent study. New English translations appear on pages facing the original French text. Readers will find this volume a fascinating introduction to the works of a key figure of French literature as well as a valuable aid to mastering one of the world's most enchanting languages. Dover (2014) original publication.

Balzac's Shorter Fictions
Balzac's Shorter Fictions

Author: Tim Farrant

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2002-02-14

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0191541427

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Balzac's reputation is as a novelist. But short stories make up over half La Comédie humaine, besides scores of other tales and articles. Short forms appear early in Balzac's output, and shape his work throughout his career. Balzac's Shorter Fictions looks at the whole of this corpus, at the nature of short fiction, and at how Balzac's novels developed from his stories - at the links between literary genesis and genre. It explores the roles of short fiction in Balzac's creation, its part in producing effects of virtuality and perspective, and reflects ultimately on the relationship between brevity and length in La Comédie humaine. This, the first complete English-language study of Balzac's work for over forty years, synthesizes recent research on Balzac's practice within the context of modern thought on the author. It is an indispensable book for students and scholars of Balzac, and for all those interested in prose fiction.

The Fantastic and European Gothic
The Fantastic and European Gothic

Author: Matthew Gibson

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2013-02-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0708326919

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This book examines the rise of Fantastic literature on the continent in the nineteenth century, the development of a European Gothic and the influence which this exerted on British writers. By examining writers like Nodier, Hoffmann, Gautier, Féval and Stevenson, the book argues firstly how their writings subvert entirely the view of the Fantastic accepted by Todorov, Punter and others, to show that it is the reversal of a pre-Enlightenment, spiritual world-view which causes terror in these works, and further demonstrates that Gothic novels frequently use allusion and anachronism to portray a cyclical view of history opposed to that of Scott.