My Husband and My Wives
My Husband and My Wives

Author: Charles Rowan Beye

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0374298718

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A memoir of a man looking back over eight decades at the complications of discovering at puberty his attraction to other men. A wonderfully original, challenging, life- and love-affirming account that could only have been written by the unconventional man who lived through it all.

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket

Author: Honoré de Balzac

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-11-20

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13:

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This work presents a touching love story of artist Théodore de Sommervieux. He falls in love with Augustine Guillaume, the daughter of a conservative cloth merchant, whose business house on the Rue Saint-Denis in Paris is known by the sign of the Cat and Racket. But things change dramatically, taking the readers on an emotional rollercoaster.

Collected Works of Honore de Balzac. Illustrated
Collected Works of Honore de Balzac. Illustrated

Author: Honore de Balzac

Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing

Published: 2021-10-07

Total Pages: 15515

ISBN-13:

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Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. Balzac sought to present his characters as real people, neither fully good nor fully evil, but completely human. His labyrinthine city provided a literary model used later by English novelist Charles Dickens and Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.. An original illustration.

Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America
Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America

Author: Paul C. Gutjahr

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2016-11-21

Total Pages: 1188

ISBN-13: 1783085800

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Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today — such as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick — were not widely read when they first appeared. This collection seeks to offer its readers a glimpse at the literature that lit up the literary horizon when the works were first published, leading to insights on key cultural aspects of the nineteenth-century United States and its literary culture.