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Author: Edmond About Publisher: Tacet Books ISBN: 396858709X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 434
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Edmond About which are The King of the Mountains and The Man With The Broken Ear. About made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer. Was one of the few younger authors of note who adhered to the second empire, he enjoyed the special favor of Napoleon III. Novels selected for this book: - The King of the Mountains. - The Man With The Broken Ear.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Author: Edmond About Publisher: Tacet Books ISBN: 396858709X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 434
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Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Edmond About which are The King of the Mountains and The Man With The Broken Ear. About made his name as an entertaining anti-clerical writer. Was one of the few younger authors of note who adhered to the second empire, he enjoyed the special favor of Napoleon III. Novels selected for this book: - The King of the Mountains. - The Man With The Broken Ear.This is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors.
Author: EDMOND ABOUT Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 151
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers. European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels * Short Stories * Belles-Lettres * Short Prose Forms * Dramatic Works * Poetry * Anthologies * And more Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods.
Author: Edmond About Publisher: ISBN: 9781982948870 Category : Languages : en Pages : 133
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Edmond François Valentin About, born February 14, 1828 in Dieuze (Moselle) and died January 16, 1885 in Paris, is a writer, journalist and critic of French art, member of the French Academy.Edmond About is also a comic author as he knows how to handle satire. He knows celebrity with his lively, clear and concise style of novels, and his novels that evoke imaginary situations, often inspired by advances in science. Marriages of Paris (1856), The King of the Mountains (1857), The Man with the Broken Ear (1862) or The Marriages of Province (1868) are all publishing successes.Four or five years ago, the hazards of life put me in correspondence with a group of Parisian workers. They were little more than seventy, but each one represented a trade, and one guessed behind them an army of comrades. I did not see a single face to face: they wrote to me, I answered them a long enough letter which ran the workshops, then one of them, which seemed to exert a certain authority by its righteousness and its lights , a proposal that can be summarized as follows:"Do you want to bond with us a strong and lasting friendship? Give us a service that neither our speakers nor our publicists have ever thought of offering us. Publish a little book that teaches us in a few hours of reading all that we need to know.What we are asking of you is not an abridgement of universal science: there are so many things in the world that do not affect us from near and far! But common sense tells us that a man of good will could, with a little effort, grasp in two or three hundred pages all the practical truths which it is important for us to know. [...] "I replied to my correspondent that I accepted the task [...] No one is supposed to ignore the civil and criminal laws that govern us, and really nobody ignores them in their main features. Why does not the vast majority of a people like ours ignore economic laws, eternal, immutable laws, inevitably derived from nature itself? ...
Author: EDMOND ABOUT Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 211
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L'hôtel des Gautripon, qui recevait tous les mercredis, était cité comme un des plus vastes et des plus somptueux de l'avenue des Champs-Élysées. Le suisse et le premier palefrenier se partageaient vingt louis par semaine, rien qu'à montrer les écuries et les mangeoires de marbre blanc. On lisait dans le Guide de l'étranger que tel jour, à telle heure, les Anglais pouvaient voir la galerie de tableaux, et notamment l'incomparable Passion d'Albert Dürer. Mme Gautripon allait aux courses en voiture de gala, comme une reine ; elle achetait les chevaux que l'impératrice avait trouvés trop chers. Ses émeraudes jouissaient d'une réputation européenne depuis l'exposition de Londres, où Webster et Samson les avaient étalées dans une vitrine à part, entre deux policemen. Le train de cette maison bourgeoise représentait au bas prix cent mille francs par mois. Un seul détail vous permettra de mesurer la prodigalité gautriponne : les enfants avaient chacun son service et ses équipages ; or l'aîné marchait sur sept ans et le plus jeune était âgé de dix-huit mois.
Author: EDMOND ABOUT Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : fr Pages : 79
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Edmond Francois Valentin About (1828-1885) etait un ecrivain, journaliste et critique d'art francais. Fils d'epicier, il fait ses etudes au petit seminaire, puis entre au Lycee Charlemagne ou il devient un eleve brillant et remporta le prix d'honneur de philosophie au Concours general. Il entre ensuite a l'Ecole normale superieure en 1848. Il etait un auteur comique tant il sait manier la satire. Il connait la celebrite grace a ses nouvelles au style vif, clair et concis, et a ses romans qui evoquent des situations imaginaires, souvent inspirees par les progres de la science. Mariages de Paris (1856), L'Homme a l'Oreille Cassee (1862) et Les Mariages de Province (1868) sont autant de succes d'editions. La Grece Contemporaine (1854) remporta un grand succes tout en insistant sur l'ecart entre le mythe grec fonde sur l'Antiquite et la realite contemporaine. Le Roi des Montagnes (1857) ridiculise le mythe romantique du pallikare, guerrier-bandit heros de la guerre d'independance grecque. De Pontoise a Stamboul (1884) parodie le celebre Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem de Chateaubriand. (less)
Author: Edmund White Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1635571189 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 241
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A new memoir from acclaimed author Edmund White about his life as a reader. Literary icon Edmund White made his name through his writing but remembers his life through the books he has read. For White, each momentous occasion came with a book to match: Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, which opened up the seemingly closed world of homosexuality while he was at boarding school in Michigan; the Ezra Pound poems adored by a lover he followed to New York; the biography of Stephen Crane that inspired one of White's novels. But it wasn't until heart surgery in 2014, when he temporarily lost his desire to read, that White realized the key role that reading played in his life: forming his tastes, shaping his memories, and amusing him through the best and worst life had to offer. Blending memoir and literary criticism, The Unpunished Vice is a compendium of all the ways reading has shaped White's life and work. His larger-than-life presence on the literary scene lends itself to fascinating, intimate insights into the lives of some of the world's best-loved cultural figures. With characteristic wit and candor, he recalls reading Henry James to Peggy Guggenheim in her private gondola in Venice and phone calls at eight o'clock in the morning to Vladimir Nabokov--who once said that White was his favorite American writer. Featuring writing that has appeared in the New York Review of Books and the Paris Review, among others, The Unpunished Vice is a wickedly smart and insightful account of a life in literature.
Author: Edmond About Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722227852 Category : Languages : en Pages : 78
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the King of the Mountains By Edmond About Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The King of the Mountains. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Edmond About, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The King of the Mountains in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The King of the Mountains: Look inside the book: I did not go to a café; I did not read the Pandore, nor the Minerve; nor any other paper of the country; I did not go to the theater, because I have a sensitive ear and a false note hurts me more cruelly than a blow; I lived with my hosts, my herbarium, and with John Harris. ...In the salons and in the cafés, in the barber-shops where the common people congregated, at the pharmacies where the bourgeoise were to be found, in the muddy streets of the bazars, in the dusty square of Belle-Gréce, at the theater, at the Sunday concerts, and upon the road to Patissia, one heard only of the great Hadgi-Stavros; one swore only by Hadgi-Stavros; Hadgi-Stavros the invincible, Hadgi-Stavros the terror of the police, Hadgi-Stavros, 'The King of the Mountains!' We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Author: James Mustich Publisher: Workman Publishing ISBN: 1523504455 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 961
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“The ultimate literary bucket list.” —THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends. Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography, children’s books, history, and more, 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die ranges across cultures and through time to offer an eclectic collection of works that each deserve to come with the recommendation, You have to read this. But it’s not a proscriptive list of the “great works”—rather, it’s a celebration of the glorious mosaic that is our literary heritage. Flip it open to any page and be transfixed by a fresh take on a very favorite book. Or come across a title you always meant to read and never got around to. Or, like browsing in the best kind of bookshop, stumble on a completely unknown author and work, and feel that tingle of discovery. There are classics, of course, and unexpected treasures, too. Lists to help pick and choose, like Offbeat Escapes, or A Long Climb, but What a View. And its alphabetical arrangement by author assures that surprises await on almost every turn of the page, with Cormac McCarthy and The Road next to Robert McCloskey and Make Way for Ducklings, Alice Walker next to Izaac Walton. There are nuts and bolts, too—best editions to read, other books by the author, “if you like this, you’ll like that” recommendations , and an interesting endnote of adaptations where appropriate. Add it all up, and in fact there are more than six thousand titles by nearly four thousand authors mentioned—a life-changing list for a lifetime of reading. “948 pages later, you still want more!” —THE WASHINGTON POST
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