9,154円 Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrot...

167円 FEATURES: • Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table of Contents for an easy navigation within the book • Manually coded and crafted by professionals for highest formatting quality and standards Check out ngims P...

12,986円 Michael Tobin's study is part literary criticism, part biography. Tobin follows Bernanos and his family from France to Spain during the Civil War and then to Brazil and North Africa. He also provides a thematic synthesis of Bernanos' novels and his extensive body of non-fiction, demonstrating tha...

330円 As an example of Dickens 's literary work, A Tale of Two Cities is not wrongly named. It is his most typical contact with the civil ideals of Europe. All his other tales have been tales of one city. He was in spirit a Cockney; though that title has been quite unreasonably twisted to mean a cad. B...

599円 La France juive d’Edouard Drumont Ferdinand Brunetière, critique littéraire français (1849-1906) Ce livre numérique présente «La France juive d’Edouard Drumont», de Ferdinand Brunetière, édité en texte intégral. Une table...

11,772円 This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novelsーthat is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Cla...

218円 Natif de Brignoles, en Provence et parlant parfaitement la langue provencale, Antoine Albalat , un érudit de la chose littéraire, est en superbe position pour nous offrir ce magnifique portrait de la vie, de l'oeuvre et du génie de Mistral, l'auteur de l'immortelle Mireille....

3,868円 The French revolts of May 1968, the largest general strike in twentieth-century Europe, were among the most famous and colourful episodes of the twentieth century. Julian Bourg argues that during the subsequent decade the revolts led to a remarkable paradigm shift in French thought - the concern ...

6,134円 There are few figures more important in literary and critical theory than Jacques Derrida. Whether lauded or condemned, his writing has had far-reaching ramifications, and his work on deconstruction cannot be ignored. This volume introduces students of literature and cultural studies to Derrida's...

3,018円 "Shattuck leaves us not only with a deepened appreciation of Proust's great work but of all great literature as well."ーRichard Bernstein, New York Times For any reader who has been humbled by the language, the density, or the sheer weight of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Roger Shattuck...

333円 Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), reporter, voyageuse et aventurière, née à Genève le 17 février 1877 décédée à Aïn-Sefra (Algérie) le 21 octobre 1904. Très impressionnante, l'histoire de sa vie fait d'elle un personnage romanesque. Son parcours exceptionnel a inspiré certains réalisateurs. En effe...

9,413円 Is it legitimate to conceive of and write a history of medieval French literature when the term “literature” as we know it today did not appear until the very end of the Middle Ages? In this novel introduction to French literature of the period, Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet says yes, arguing tha...