Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet

Author: Georges Riat

Publisher: Parkstone Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating painting of conventional rules. He became from then on the leader of pictorial realism.

Esther Happy
Esther Happy

Author: Honoré de Balzac

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-10

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13:

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"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...

Madame Bovary (New Edition)
Madame Bovary (New Edition)

Author: Gustave Flaubert

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 3736808011

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Madame 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".

Droll Stories
Droll Stories

Author: Honore de Balzac

Publisher: anboco

Published: 2016-08-20

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 3736406053

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THE FAIR IMPERIA THE VENIAL SIN THE KING'S SWEETHEART THE DEVIL'S HEIR THE MERRIE JESTS OF KING LOUIS THE ELEVENTH THE HIGH CONSTABLE'S WIFE THE MAID OF THILOUSE THE BROTHERS-IN-ARMS THE VICAR OF AZAY-LE-RIDEAU THE REPROACH THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY HOW THE CHATEAU D'AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT THE FALSE COURTESAN THE DANGER OF BEING TOO INNOCENT THE DEAR NIGHT OF LOVE THE SERMON OF THE MERRY VICAR OF MEUDON THE SUCCUBUS DESPAIR IN LOVE PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE CONCERNING A PROVOST WHO DID NOT RECOGNISE THINGS ABOUT THE MONK AMADOR, WHO WAS A GLORIOUS ABBOT OF TURPENAY BERTHA THE PENITENT HOW THE PRETTY MAID OF PORTILLON CONVINCED HER JUDGE IN WHICH IT IS DEMONSTRATED THAT FORTUNE IS ALWAYS FEMININE CONCERNING A POOR MAN WHO WAS CALLED LE VIEUX PAR-CHEMINS ODD SAYINGS OF THREE PILGRIMS INNOCENCE THE FAIR IMPERIA MARRIED

Catalogue des objets d'art, de curiosité et d'ameublement, tableaux de différentes écoles, importante composition par Alexandre Hesse, dessins anciens par : Barbiéri, Lalive, Pillement, etc., porcelaines et faïences, Paris, Chantilly, Chine, Compagnie des Indes, etc., bois et ivoires sculptés, argenterie et métal, objets de vitrine, objets variés, parure en or et mosaïque provenant de la vente des diamants de la Couronne, bronzes, pendules, meubles anciens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en marqueterie et bronzes, mobilier de salon Louis XVI, couvert de tapisserie d'Aubusson, autres salons Louis XVI et Directoire, chambre à coucher de la Restauration, commodes, secrétaires, meubles d'appui, bureaux, lits Directoire, berceau Empire, tables et sièges divers, etc., suite de trois belles tapisseries des Flandres de la fin du XVIe siècle, autres tapisseries anciennes des Flandres, d'Aubusson et de Felletin, tapis d'Aubusson
Catalogue des objets d'art, de curiosité et d'ameublement, tableaux de différentes écoles, importante composition par Alexandre Hesse, dessins anciens par : Barbiéri, Lalive, Pillement, etc., porcelaines et faïences, Paris, Chantilly, Chine, Compagnie des Indes, etc., bois et ivoires sculptés, argenterie et métal, objets de vitrine, objets variés, parure en or et mosaïque provenant de la vente des diamants de la Couronne, bronzes, pendules, meubles anciens des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles en marqueterie et bronzes, mobilier de salon Louis XVI, couvert de tapisserie d'Aubusson, autres salons Louis XVI et Directoire, chambre à coucher de la Restauration, commodes, secrétaires, meubles d'appui, bureaux, lits Directoire, berceau Empire, tables et sièges divers, etc., suite de trois belles tapisseries des Flandres de la fin du XVIe siècle, autres tapisseries anciennes des Flandres, d'Aubusson et de Felletin, tapis d'Aubusson

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Published: 1925

Total Pages: 0

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The Smell of Books
The Smell of Books

Author: Hans J. Rindisbacher

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0472103830

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Demonstrates that sense of smell plays a significant role in the history of European literature