Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,47 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Detective and mystery stories
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The reported kidnapping of the Pope and subsequent attempts to rescue him involve three brothers-in-law and their relatives.
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : Andre Gide
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 35,28 MB
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307819310
Passing with cinematographic speed across the capitals of Europe, Nobel laureate André Gide’s Lafcadio’s Adventures is a brilliantly sly satire and one of the clearest articulations of his greatest theme: the unmotivated crime. When Lafcadio Wluiki, a street-smart nineteen-year-old in 1890s Paris, learns that he’s heir to an ailing French nobleman’s fortune, he’s seized by wanderlust. Traveling through Rome in expensive new threads, he becomes entangled in a Church extortion scandal involving an imprisoned Pope, a skittish purveyor of graveyard statuary, an atheist-turned-believer on the edge of insolvency, and all manner of wastrels, swindlers, aristocrats, adventurers, and pickpockets. With characteristic irony, Gide contrives a hilarious detective farce whereby the wrong man is apprehended, while the charmingly perverse Lafcadio—one of the most original creations in all modern fiction—goes free.
Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,2 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Paris (France)
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Author : André Gide
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
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Author : Karen L. Taylor
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0816074992
French novels such as "Madame Bovary" and "The Stranger" are staples of high school and college literature courses. This work provides coverage of the French novel since its origins in the 16th century, with an emphasis on novels most commonly studied in high school and college courses in world literature and in French culture and civilization.
Author : Mihai Spariosu
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,65 MB
Release : 1997-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791433669
Examines the concept of play in Western thought, with special emphasis on the relationship between aesthetics and ethics, and envisions literary discourse as contributing to an alternative mentality based on peace rather than power.
Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2992 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1136593411
Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
Author : Dan Andriacco
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 180424340X
Mystery writer, magician, Sherlockian, and sleuth-at-large... very large - that's Sebastian "Mac" McCabe. This collection introduces the series of light-hearted but mysterious adventures of Mac and his brother-in-law, Jeff Cody, an admiring but by no means uncritical 'Watson' as they uncover small-town secrets to solve murders that would stump Sherlock Holmes himself. Three original novels are included in this collection, being the award-winning No Police Like Holmes, its follow-up Holmes Sweet Holmes, and the third book in the series, The 1895 Murder.
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 1928
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