Recueil de Farces Françaises Inédites Du XVe Siècle
Author : Gustave Cohen
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Gustave Cohen
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Stendhal
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528765311
This 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.
Author : John Bellows
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 20,14 MB
Release : 1911
Category : English language
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Author : Sanja Perovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139537032
One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.
Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2013-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933212
Orestes 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."
Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
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What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the ninetheenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels of the lives of contemporary European Jews.
Author : Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476792011
"A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of 3 generations of women in an Indian/Indian-American Family"--
Author : Philip Mansel
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780753818558
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Author : John Ruskin
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
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ISBN : 9781297790614
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Author : Augustin Ioan
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 34,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
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