Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691057
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Book Synopsis Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics) by : Alphonse Daudet

Download or read book Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose. French Classics) written by Alphonse Daudet and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little What's-His-Name (Le Petit Chose) - Alphonse Daudet's (1840-1897) first published, though not his first written, novel - appeared in 1868. The first part was composed in that Southern France it describes so charmingly; its first chapters form one of the most touching of autobiographies. In the second part Daudet has to tell of the struggles of an idealistic young poet in the selfish, devouring whirlpool of Paris. The whole book seems to bear the impress of the circumstances under which it was written. It is full of the milk of human kindness. --- When Daudet wrote Le Petit Chose in his early manhood, he succeeded in producing one of the most delightfully idyllic of his works, one that will probably continue to be read as long as any of the more powerful novels of his prime. It is one of the most perfect representations in literature of childhood's hopes and fears and of youth's aspirations and defeats. It is perfect because it is real. --- Enjoy to the full one of the purest and most exquisite stories of youthful experience to be found in French or in any other literature. (W. P. Trent)

Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691332
Total Pages : 154 pages
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Book Synopsis Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics) by : Romain Rolland

Download or read book Colas Breugnon (A Burgundian Story; French Classics) written by Romain Rolland and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Colas Breugnon" is a charming romance of life in Burgundy three hundred years ago. It is an "autobiographical" novel, the story being told in the first person by Colas, who reviews his fifty years of life, and describes all its joys and sorrows. The story is gay and humorous, and full of wise observations about life. --- "Colas Breugnon is the jovial Burgundian, the lusty wood-carver, the practical joker always fond of his glass, the droll fellow. Before everything, Colas Breugnon is a free man. He loves his king, but only so long as the king leaves him his liberty; he loves his wife, but follows his own bent; he is on excellent terms with the priest of a neighboring parish, but never goes to church; he idolizes his children, but his vigorous individuality makes him unwilling to live with them. He is friendly with all, but subject to none; he is freer than the king; he has that sense of humor characteristic of the free spirit to whom the whole world belongs. From the artistic point of view, 'Colas Breugnon' may perhaps be regarded as Rolland's most successful work. This is because it is woven in one piece, because it flows with a continuous rhythm, because its progress is never arrested by the discussion of thorny problems. It is written throughout in the same key. The first sentence gives the note like a tuning fork, and thence the entire book takes its pitch. Throughout, the same lively melody is sustained. The writer employs a peculiarly happy form. His style is poetic without being actually versified; it has a melodious measure without being strictly metrical. This work is unlike any of Rolland's other writings. It is not an historic study, a critical appreciation, a philosophic essay, nor yet even, in the strictest sense of the word, a novel. It is rather a volume of reminiscences as told by a man of fifty; and the very aimlessness with which this man talks is in itself a pleasure; for Breugnon is himself the one subject of the book, holding our attention by the display of a wayward, sympathetic, and aggressive personality." (Stefan Zweig)

The Sandman. The Elementary Spirit (Two Mysterious Tales. German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691170
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sandman. The Elementary Spirit (Two Mysterious Tales. German Classics) by : E. T. A. Hoffmann

Download or read book The Sandman. The Elementary Spirit (Two Mysterious Tales. German Classics) written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literature can produce a more original writer than Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 1822), a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann). His works are very numerous and were published at Berlin in fifteen volumes. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann.---Of the two tales in this book, "The Sandman" is from the collection "Night Pieces," and The Elementary Spirit is from his "Later Works." In these stories, Hoffmann's purpose is to point out the ill-effect of a morbid desire after an imaginary world, and a distaste for realities. Different as their adventures are, there is a striking similarity in the characters of Nathaniel (in "The Sandman") and Victor (in "The Elementary Spirit"). However wild may be the subjects of Hoffmann, and however rambling his method of treating them, his style is remarkably lucid.---The story of the Sandman had its origin in a discussion which actually took place between La Motte Fouque (a German writer of the romantic movement, 1777 1843) and some friends, at which Hoffmann was present. Some of the party found fault with the cold, mechanical deportment of a young lady of their acquaintance, while La Motte Fouque zealously defended her. Here Hoffmann caught the notion of the automaton Olympia, and the arguments used by Nathaniel are those that were employed by La Motte Fouque."

God's Beloved (German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 159569126X
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis God's Beloved (German Classics) by : Bernhard Kellermann

Download or read book God's Beloved (German Classics) written by Bernhard Kellermann and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What we find in the insane asylum of 'God's Beloved' are strange human communities, presented in the characteristic atmosphere of their milieu. Kellermann was a seeker after new forms of expression for psychical reaction; but he presented himself as a pure nature of great delicacy and lucidity." (Kuno Francke)

The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer)

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ISBN 13 : 159569109X
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer) by : Franz Grillparzer

Download or read book The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer) written by Franz Grillparzer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Poor Musician" is an autobiographical novella by Austria's famous dramatist and poet Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872): Rounded and compacted, and yet saturated with the sad tragedy of his own isolation -- it is the most artistic work we have from his pen. For the student of Grillparzer-psychology it is a veritable treasure trove. "The Poor Musician" was the one piece of his creative genius that unflinchingly grappled with the great problem of resignation; the one piece that pictured resignation; but also the one piece that made resignation itself tragic. --- The poor, half-witted fiddler, shipwrecked in life, coddling his woe as the last sweet treasure it has left him, pouring it forth in the midnight solitude of his chamber in music that is music to none but the illusioned player -- such is resignation.

The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691391
Total Pages : 106 pages
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Book Synopsis The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics) by : Franz Grillparzer

Download or read book The Jewess of Toledo (German Classics) written by Franz Grillparzer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Grillparzer (1791 - 1872) was an Austrian dramatic poet. "The Jewess of Toledo" may perhaps be said to mark the climax of his productive activity. Written in 1851, it was first performed in Prague in 1872, after Grillparzer's death. It is an eminently modern drama of passion in classical dignity of form. The play is properly called "The Jewess of Toledo"; for Rachel, the Jewess, is at the centre of the action, and is a marvelous creation – "a mere woman, nothing but her sex". The King of Castile, however, though relatively passive, is the most important character. He is attracted to Rachel by a charm that he has never known in his coldly virtuous English consort, and, after an error forgivable because made comprehensible, is taught the duty of personal sacrifice to morality and to the state.

The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691383
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Book Synopsis The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics) by : Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Download or read book The Monk's Marriage (Swiss-German Classics) written by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) was a poet and novelist, born in Zürich, Switzerland. Meyer was preeminently the artist among German novelists; his style is polished and finely balanced; his scenes are delineated with infinite care, and his subjects always have a certain inner harmony with the spirit of the author's own time. In "The Monk's Marriage" Meyer reached the highest development of the "frame-story." It has been universally admired for the genius and audacity of its invention, for its artistic elaboration, and for the wonderful pen-portrait of Dante, "the wanderer through Hell," whose personality dominates the whole story as he narrates it. This introduction of Dante was a bold stroke, justified only by success. The plot of the tale itself is based upon an account (in Machiavelli's "History of Florence") of a family feud which began the bitter factional strife of the Guelfs and Ghibellines in Florence. The frame is a masterpiece, generally more admired than the story. The tale is characteristically Italian, with its sudden changes of fortune, the breathless development of the plot, the volcanic outburst of passion. The plot, one of the few in Meyer's works in which love is the dominant note, is well developed and told with consummate art. The language is noticeable for its stately dignity, such as befits the character of the narrator, the great Dante. The story has one of "those murderous finales which are Meyer's delight," as Gottfried Keller once wrote to Theodor Storm. And yet, The "Monk's Marriage" ranks as one of the best, if not the best, of Meyer's Novellen.

Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691049
Total Pages : 122 pages
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Book Synopsis Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics) by : Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Download or read book Krambambuli. The District Doctor (Two Novellas. German Classics) written by Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Austrian writer Baroness (Freifrau) Marie von Ebner Eschenbach (1830-1916) was one of the foremost novelists in the German tongue, and one of the best short-story writers in the world. The Austrian aristocracy with their Slavo-German dependents in the Moravian villages constitute the world of her fiction. Country and city are her theatres, noble and peasant keep the balance. All forms of the short-story are at her command: letters, diaries, dialogues, and that most difficult of all forms, the story within a story. --- Where can be found a more concrete and genial characterization of the leading political lords and ladies, more lifelike portraits of officialdom and of the much abused peasantry than in her historic tale "The District Doctor" (1883), which has as its background the bloody peasant uprisings in Galicia in 1846? Where do we find human sympathy ethically and artistically more refined than in her little masterpiece "Krambambuli" (1883), the story of a dog with spotless pedigree who, like Rudiger in the Nibelungen, perishes in the vain attempt to serve two masters? --- Of the qualities that make up a great writer she has the deep and high truth of substance. She does not view the world in the rosy light of the idyll. She never seeks to avoid the ugly. But more, she puts a high moral interpretation on human life. Her ethics is proof against all egotism and will bear comparison with that of the great moralists, ancient and modern."

The French Classical Romances

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Total Pages : 496 pages
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Book Synopsis The French Classical Romances by : EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.

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The Trembling of a Leaf

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ISBN 13 : 1595691197
Total Pages : 154 pages
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Book Synopsis The Trembling of a Leaf by : William Somerset Maugham

Download or read book The Trembling of a Leaf written by William Somerset Maugham and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1916, William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) travelled to the Pacific to research his novel "The Moon and Sixpence," based on the life of Paul Gauguin. This was the first of those journeys through the late-Imperial world of the 1920s and 1930s which were to establish Maugham forever in the popular imagination as the chronicler of the last days of colonialism in India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific, although the books on which this reputation rests represent only a fraction of his output.---Maugham reused elements of his Pacific diaries in "The Trembling of a Leaf" (1921), which contains one of his most recognized stories, "Rain," adapted to the stage by John Colton and Clemence Randolph in 1922.

Pan Tadeusz (Pan Thaddeus. Polish Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691340
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Book Synopsis Pan Tadeusz (Pan Thaddeus. Polish Classics) by : Adam Mickiewicz

Download or read book Pan Tadeusz (Pan Thaddeus. Polish Classics) written by Adam Mickiewicz and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical prose translation of the famous Polish verse epic. In the book, Tadeusz tells the story of two feuding noble families; it takes place in a fictional idyllic village, in 1811 and 1812, after the division of Poland-Lithuania between Russia, Prussia, and Austria. --- "No European nation of our day has such an epic as Pan Tadeusz. In it Don Quixote has been fused with the Iliad. ... Pan Tadeusz is a true epic. No more can be said or need be said." (Zygmunt Krasinski) --- "No play of Shakespeare, no long poem of Milton or Wordsworth or Tennyson, is so well known or so well beloved by the English people as is Pan Tadeusz by the Poles. To find a work equally well known one might turn to Defoe's prosaic tale of adventure, Robinson Crusoe; to find a work so beloved would be hardly possible." (George Rapall Noyes)

The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691111
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Book Synopsis The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart) by : Emile Zola

Download or read book The Downfall (La Debacle. The Rougon-Macquart) written by Emile Zola and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The Downfall" Zola tells the story of a terrific land-slide which overwhelmed the French Second Empire: It is a story of war, grim and terrible; of a struggle to the death between two great nations. In it the author has put much of his finest work, and the result is one of the masterpieces of literature. The hero is Jean Macquart, son of Antoine Macquart and brother of Gervaise. After the terrible death of his wife, as told in "La Terre" ("The Soil"), Jean enlisted for the second time in the army, and went through the campaign up to the battle of Sedan. After the capitulation he was made prisoner, and in escaping was wounded. When he returned to active service he took part in crushing the excesses of the Commune in Paris... The Downfall has been described as "a prose epic of modern war," and vast though the subject be, it is treated in a manner that is powerful, painful, and pathetic.

Signora Speranza (Italian Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691081
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Book Synopsis Signora Speranza (Italian Classics) by : Luigi Pirandello

Download or read book Signora Speranza (Italian Classics) written by Luigi Pirandello and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), master of style, appeared first as poet, pure in style, severe in inspiration, but later "found himself" in writing humorous tales, novels and especially dramas. His humor, though at bottom sad and almost pessimistic, is not of a quiet sort. To him man appears as a creature more miserable than grotesque, eternally made sport of by the irony of fate. Such is the philosophy in "Signora Speranza", one of the most characteristic of his novellas. In 1934 Pirandello was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691251
Total Pages : 142 pages
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Book Synopsis Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics) by : Theodor Fontane

Download or read book Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel (Irrungen, Wirrungen) (German Classics) written by Theodor Fontane and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gentle melancholy of two people coming together in a way which can never lead to full satisfaction, the quiet tragedy of a separation not forced by external powers but by the constant pressure of circumstances-this is what sounds through this splendid story. "Trials and Tribulations" is built entirely on this motive. An honest sturdy young officer and a decent pretty girl get to know each other on an excursion. Unconsciously they drift into a relation where heart meets heart, the breaking of which causes the deepest pain. But both see clearly from the beginning that there is no other end. For they know that the world is stronger than the individual, and the many small moments than the one supreme. They know it, for they are, like their creator, resigned realists. They shut their eyes only in order not to see the end too near. (Richard M. Meyer)---The interest of Fontane's novels lies rather in character than in action. While he portrays many types characteristic of Berlin and the surrounding region, and is very successful in rendering local color and the atmosphere of the particular circle described in each book, his penetration into universal human nature is sufficiently deep to raise him far above provincialism. His effort is to represent people vividly and naturally in their normal relations, not to strain after sensational or even dramatic situations. "Trials and Tribulations" ("Irrungen Wirrungen", 1887) gives an excellent idea of his power. In a gently moving story, told without the forcing of emotion or the contriving of exciting scenes, he deals with the pathos of the relation between a man and a woman, alike in an attractive simplicity of character, but forced apart by difference of rank. The situation is laid before us without expressed censure or protest, and is allowed to have its effect by the sober truth of its presentation. Fontane's is an honest and sincere art, none the less great because unpretentious. (W.A.N.)

The Cold Heart. Nose, the Dwarf (Two German Tales)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691189
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cold Heart. Nose, the Dwarf (Two German Tales) by : Wilhelm Hauff

Download or read book The Cold Heart. Nose, the Dwarf (Two German Tales) written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelm Hauff was a writer of extraordinary fancy and invention, but working for a more obvious purpose, and producing narratives more related in character to popular legends. He was born in 1802, at Stuttgard, and in early life showed a great predilection for telling childish narratives. Being designed for the theological profession, he went to the University of Tubingen in 1820. --- On leaving the university, Hauff became tutor to the children of the Wurttemberg minister of war, General Ernst Eugen Freiherr von Hugel, and for them wrote his Tales, which he published in his "Almanach of Tales for the year 1826". --- Only a few of his famous tales take place in Germany, among them the "Nose, the Dwarf" and "The Cold Heart." --- Hauff needs only to be known to become popular in any country. His works, which are somewhat numerous, were published in a complete edition by the poet Gustav Schwab, in 1830. Wilhelm Hauff died in 1827, before he had completed his twenty-sixth year.

Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune

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ISBN 13 : 1595691243
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Book Synopsis Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune by : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Download or read book Minna Von Barnhelm, Or, the Soldier's Fortune written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2009 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) was a German writer, philosopher, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and other writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. --- The importance of Lessing's masterpiece in comedy, "Minna von Barnhelm," is difficult to exaggerate. It was the beginning of German national drama; and by the patriotic interest of its historical background, by its sympathetic treatment of the German soldier and the German woman, and by its happy blending of the amusing and the pathetic, it won a place in the national heart from which no succeeding comedy has been able to dislodge it. (Ernest Bell)

Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

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ISBN 13 : 1595691154
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Book Synopsis Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels) by : Jane Austen

Download or read book Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels) written by Jane Austen and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains two of Austen's works, "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey."