Author: Émile DEHAISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 276
Book Description
L'Assurance sur la vie en France et les Tontines. Vrai caractère et vrai but de l'assurance sur la vie, influence morale et matérielle qu'elle peut avoir sur la destinée des familles, etc
Author: Émile DEHAISComment communiquer avec les prisonniers de guerre à l'étranger
Author: Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de BalzacPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
French Literature and Its Background: The late nineteenth century
Author: John CruickshankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The Order of Mimesis
Author: Christopher PrendergastPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521369770
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives developed in and around the work of Barthes, Kristeva, Genette and Derrida, Dr Prendergast explores approaches to the concept of mimesis and relates these to a number of narrative texts produced in the period which literary history familiarly designates as the age of realism.
Stealing Things
Author: Rosemary A. PetersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781498516457
Category : Crime in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Stealing Things demonstrates how nineteenth-century French narratives portraying the "thief" figure reflect and critique popular attitudes of the times. This book focuses on how stolen objects shape individual identity and social status.
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Author: Richard StillwellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400886589
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
Here are over 1,000 pages of authoritative information on the archaeology of Greek and Roman civilization. The sites discussed in the more than 2,800 entries are scattered from Britain to India and from the shores of the Black Sea to the coast of North Africa and up the Nile. They are located on sixteen area maps, keyed to the entries. The entries were written by 375 scholars from sixteen nations, many of whom have worked at the sites they describe. Until now our knowledge of the Classical period has been scattered in hundreds of sources dating from antiquity to our own times. This volume provides essential information on work accomplished, in progress, and still to be undertaken. 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.
The Children of Athena
Author: Nicole LorauxPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691037622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
"According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity."--Publisher's description.
Non-Slave Labour in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Peter GarnseyPublisher: Cambridge Philological Society
ISBN: 1913701123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
In Greco-Roman society the typical labourer was a peasant, not a slave. Yet, while specialized studies of ancient slavery abound, the subject of free labour, its incidence, status and economic significance, has received little attention. This volume of essays provides a summary of the available evidence for non-slave labour in antiquity and a bibliographical guide, but in addition advances novel interpretations concerning, for example, the composition of the 'labouring class', the relation between slave and peasant systems of production, and the importance of free dependent labour in the Western Roman provinces.
Ptolemaic Alexandria
Author: Peter Marshall FraserPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexandria (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages :
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