Recueil de Farces Françaises Inédites Du XVe Siècle
Author: Gustave Cohen
Publisher:
Published: 1949
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Memoirs of an Egotist
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.
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-10
Total Pages: 143
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
French Ecocriticism
Author: Daniel A. Finch-Race
Publisher: Studies in Literature, Culture, and the Environment / Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Umwelt
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783631673454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.
Orestes
Author: Voltaire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-08-02
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 1627933212
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."
La Horda
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-10-09
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781539417385
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Madame Bovary (New Edition)
Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: BookRix
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 3736808011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMadame Bovary is the French writer Gustave Flaubert's debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel's true art lies in its details and hidden patterns. Flaubert was a notorious perfectionist and claimed always to be searching for le mot juste ("the precise word"). Long established as one of the greatest novels ever written, the book has often been described as a "perfect" work of fiction. Henry James writes: "Madame Bovary has a perfection that not only stamps it, but that makes it stand almost alone; it holds itself with such a supreme unapproachable assurance as both excites and defies judgment." Giorgio de Chirico said that in his opinion "from the narrative point of view, the most perfect book is Madame Bovary by Flaubert".
Before We Visit the Goddess
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1476792011
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THE CANDIDATE
Author: GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
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