Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Edition Definitive of La Comédie Humaine: The celibates: Pierrette. The Curé de Tours. La Rabouilleuse
Edition Definitive of the Comédie Humaine: The celibates: Pierrette. The Curé de Tours. La Rabouilleuse
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe édition définitive of the Comédie humaine: The celibates: Pierrette. The Curé de Tours. La Rabouilleuse
Author: Honoré de BalzacThe Edition Définitive of the Comédie Humaine
Author: Honoré de BalzacEdition Definitive of La Comédie Humaine: The repertory of La comédie humaine of Honoré de Balzac
Author: Honoré de BalzacPere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet
Author: Honore de BalzacLucien de Rubempré
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Boston : Roberts
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Ourika
Author: Claire de DurasPublisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603292292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers. Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the time of the French Revolution. Brought up in a household of learning and privilege, she is unaware of her difference until she overhears a conversation that suddenly makes her conscious of her race--and of the prejudice it arouses. From this point on, Ourika lives her life not as a French woman but as a black woman who feels "cut off from the entire human race." As the Reign of Terror threatens her and her adoptive family, Ourika struggles with her unusual position as an educated African woman in eighteenth-century Europe. A best-seller in the 1820s, Ourika captured the attention of Duras's peers, including Stendhal, and became the subject of four contemporary plays. The work represents a number of firsts: the first novel set in Europe to have a black heroine; the first French literary work narrated by a black female protagonist; and, as Fowles points out in the foreword to his translation, "the first serious attempt by a white novelist to enter a black mind."
Balzac's Comedy of Words
Author: Martin KanesPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN:
Category : Balzac, Honore de, 1799-1850
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Although Balzac's work has been much studied, practically nothing has been written on his use of linguistic concepts. Applying a new approach, this perceptive book demonstrates that the theme and theory of language were central to Balzac's fiction. In considering how the novelist was influenced by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century speculation on language, Martin Kanes traces the development of Balzac's own linguistic ideas from his early to his later writings. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A Man of Business
Author: Honore de BalzacPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1613101740
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description