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Adieuby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ******************. more...
The Essential Victor Hugoby Victor Hugo; E. H. Blackmore; A. M. Blackmore
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 8.95Here, for the first time in English, all aspects of Hugo's work are represented in a single volume. Famous scenes from Notre-Dame, Les Miserables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from Hugo's intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment. The poems appear in bilingual form, and much of the material is appearing in English for the first time. - ;'To the English, I am "shocking"...What's more, French, which is disgus more...
A Short History of French Literatureby Sarah Kay; Terence Cave; Malcolm Bowie
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 40.00This book traces the history of French literature from its beginnings to the present. Within its remarkably brief compass, it offers a wide-ranging, personal, and detailed account of major writers and movements. Developments in French literature are presented in an innovative way, not as an even sequence of literary events but as a series of stories told at varying pace and with different kinds of focus. Readers can thus take in the broad sweep of historical change, grasp the main. characteristics of major periods, or enjoy a close appraisal of individual works and their contexts. The book is written in an accessible and non-technical style that will make it attractive to students and to all those who enjoy French Literature. - ;This book traces... more...
An Anthology of Modern French Poetry (18501950)by Peter Broome; Graham Chesters
Cambridge University Press 1976; US$ 37.00This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of poetic appreciation. The fourteen poets represented here provide a varied and exciting introduction to what is probably the richest century of French poetry, from 1850 to 1950. Hugo, the colossus of the nineteenth century, whose work gives new resonance and vitality to imaginative vision, opens the anthology, and Michaux, the most individual and 'modern' of twentieth-century poets in that he bridges the gap between poetry and contemporary science, closes it. Almost all the major poets of the period are included: Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Laforgue... more...
Ricochetby Seymour Mayne; Sabine Huynh
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2011; US$ 9.99Fourteen lines, fourteen words ? one poem. Quatorze lignes, quatorze mots ? un poème. more...
Les Liaisons dangereusesby Pierre Choderlos de Laclos; Douglas Parmée; David Coward
Oxford University Press, UK 1995; US$ 8.95The complex moral ambiguities of seduction and revenge make Les Liaisons dangereuses (1782) one of the most scandalous and controversial novels in European literature. The subject of major film and stage adaptations, the novel's prime movers, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil, form an unholy alliance and turn seduction into a game - a game which they must win. This new translation gives Laclos a modern voice, and readers will be able a judge whether the novel is as `diabolical' and `infamous' as its critics have claimed, or whether it has much to tell us about the kind of world we ourselves live in. David Coward's introduction explodes myths about Laclos's own life and puts the book in its literary and... more...
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