Le Chevalier au barisel is an established part of the Old French literary canon, but up to now it has not been available in English. This translation offers a vibrant but scholarly version of the exciting short story, suitable for a wide readership including university students, scholars of associated disciplines (history, English, theology, fine arts, comparative literature, etc.) and general readers. The greatest strength of the book is the translation itself, which can be read without referen...
Histoire de Sainte Elisabeth de Hongrie V2
by Charles Forbes Montalembert
Oeuvres Meslees, Contenant l'Innocente Tromperie, l'Avare Puni, (Ed.1696) (Litterature)
by L Heritier de Villandon-M
Suspended Passion (The French List - (Seagull titles CHUP)) (SB-The French List)
by Marguerite Duras
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews - hailed on its French publication as Duras's 'secret confession' - offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinions, life, and relationships. The interviews that make up the book were conducted in 1987, when Italian journalist Leopoldina Pallotta della Torre met the seventy-three-year-old Duras at her Pari...
French Novels and the Victorians (British Academy Monographs)
by Juliette Atkinson
In 1836, John Wilson Croker, having immersed himself in dozens of contemporary French novels, warned his readers that 'she who dares to read a single page of the hundred thousand licentious pages with which the last five years have indundated society, is lost for ever.' It has become common to build an opposition between the attitudes towards fiction held in prudish Victorian England and permissive 19th-century France. The lack of a full-length study of 19th-century Anglo-French literary relatio...
Catechisme de Morale Universelle (1868)
by Charles Vercamer and Louis Auguste Martin
Geneviève (Alphonse Karr (G-PH Ballin Edition) (Litterature)
by Alphonse Karr
Actes et Paroles (Vol. III) (French Edition) (Actes Et Paroles, #3)
by Victor Hugo
The Count of Monte Cristo (Count of Monte Cristo, #2)
by Alexandre Dumas
Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, The Count of Monet Cristo recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantes, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal.From the Hardcover edition.
Fleurs du Mal (French Texts) (Picador Classics S.)
by Charles Baudelaire
This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature.
This useful student edition contains the complete French text of the play along with a substantial Introduction and Commentary also in French.
813 (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur, #4) (Arsene Lupin, #4)
by Maurice Leblanc
When one of Arsene Lupin's victims is found dead in a way that implicates the wily criminal, he insists on heading the police search for the real murderer. The mystery involves finding a package of letters once written to Bismarck, locating a clock on which the number 813 has significance, as well as causing a reigning emperor to make several journeys incognito. Murders by the dozens, suicide and mild forms of torture are warp and woof of the plot.
