Author: Marmion Wilard SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Bachelor of the Albany
Author: Marmion Wilard SavagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Spain
Author: Henry David InglisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Scribner's Magazine
Author: Scribner's Magazine
Author: Edward Livermore BurlingamePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought
Author: The Library Magazine of American and Foreign Thought
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Blackwood's Magazine
Author: The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillana
Author: Alain René Le SagePublisher: Edinburgh : W. Paterson
ISBN:
Category : Blas, Gil (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at the age of seventeen to attend the University of Salamanca. His bright future is suddenly interrupted when he is forced to help robbers along the route and is faced with jail. He becomes a valet and, over the course of several years, is able to observe many different classes of society, both lay and clerical. Because of his occupation, he meets many disreputable people and is able to adjust to many situations, thanks to his adaptability and quick wit. He finally finds himself at the royal court as a favorite of the king and secretary to the prime minister. Working his way up through hard work and intelligence, Gil is able to retire to a castle to enjoy a fortune and a hard-earned honest life.
Spain of Fernando de Rojas
Author: Stephen GilmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400872553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
As a major piece of historical detective work. Stephen Gilman's "La Celestina" and the Spain of Fernando de Rojas adds a new dimension to critical studies of the fifteenth-century masterpiece. Using the text of La Celestina as well as public and private archives in Spain, Mr. Oilman builds up a vivid sense of the man behind the dialogue and establishes Fernando de Rojas indisputably as its author—a figure whom critics, while ranking his novel second only to Don Quixote, have treated as semi-anonymous or non-existent. We cannot really know what the Celestina is, says Mr. Oilman, without speculating as rigorously and as learnedly as possible both on how it came to be and on how it could come to be. Thus he reconstructs the world of Rojas, country lawyer and converso, the social, religious, and intellectual milieu of Salamanca, of Spain during the Inquisition, of the converted Jew. He makes it possible for us to see the author—the law student writing feverishly during a fortnight's vacation from classes—in the context of his own times and thus to understand Rojas' achievement: his unconventionality; his sardonic judgment of the Spain in which he lived; the explosive originality, in fact, of La Celestina. Originally published in 1972. 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.