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Rakes of the Old Court

Author : Mateiu Caragiale
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810142260
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Rakes of the Old Court written by Mateiu Caragiale and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-15 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the greatest Romanian novel of the twentieth century, Mateiu Caragiale’s Rakes of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche) follows four characters through the bars and brothels of Bucharest. Guided by an amoral opportunist, the shadowy narrator and his two affluent friends drink and gamble their way through a city built on the ruins of crumbled castles and bygone empires. The novel’s shimmering, spectacular prose describes gripping vignettes of love, ambition, and decay. Originally published in 1929, Rakes of the Old Court is considered a jewel of Romanian modernism. Devoted “Mateists” have long read, memorized, and reenacted the novel, and after the Romanian Revolution, it became part of the high school curriculum. Now canonical, Mateiu’s work has been celebrated for its opulent literary style and enigmatic tone.

Gallants of the Old Court

Author : Mateiu I. Caragiale
Publisher : Eliteratura
ISBN 13 : 9786067001723
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Gallants of the Old Court written by Mateiu I. Caragiale and published by Eliteratura. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romanian writer Mateiu I. Caragiale (great playwright Ion Luca Caragiale's son), lived between 1885-1936. His main literary works are the short story "Remember" (1921) and the novel "Gallants of the Old Court" (1929, Romanian Writers Society's Award). He shines through the originality and distinction of his masterly controlled style. Written in the first person, "The Gallants of the Old Court (Craii de Curtea-Veche)" reveals the traits of, and satirizes, Romanian society in the early 20th century. Three self-indulgent, decadent characters while away their time, drinking, playing cards, chasing women. They also make allowance for the company of Gore Pirgu, an uncultured self-seeker of very low extraction, whose abominable character mirrors the new political class of the time. In this novel, the dying world of medieval boyars meets a rising fiercely capitalistic world, with new rules and ruthless behavior. Respected Romanian literary critic George Calinescu wrote: "Reality is transfigured, it becomes fantastical and a sort of Edgar Poe-like unease stirs these worthless figures of the old Romanian capital." "Gallants of the Old Court" opens a fascinating universe in front of us, as well as explains usually untapped regions of the human soul, helping us to better understand not only most of the Byzantine, Balkan, and Romanian spirit, but also a large size of our own unexplored self. The translator has done a painstakingly perfectionist work in rendering the text into English in the best possible way and also explaining every detail that might help us understand the spirit and the letter of the original, even without any hint of knowledge of Romanian. "Gallants of the Old Court" is a great read and one of the masterpieces of world literature; and this translation is surely the best so far.

One Night with a Rake

Author : Connie Mason
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402272448
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book One Night with a Rake written by Connie Mason and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For King and Country, Three Notorious Rakes Will Put All Their Seductive Skills to Work. After All, The Fate of England's Monarchy is in Their Hands. Since the death of his fiancée, Nathaniel Colton's polished boots have rested beneath the beds of countless wayward wives and widows of the ton. He's careful to leave each lady smiling, and equally careful to guard his heart. So seducing Lady Georgette should pose no problem. But the beautiful reformist is no easy conquest, and Nate's considerable charm fails to entice Georgette to his bed. To woo her, Nate will have to make her believe he cares about someone besides himself--and no one is more surprised than Nate when he realizes he actually does.

Trixy

Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810140446
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Trixy written by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trixy is a 1904 novel by the best-selling but largely forgotten American author and women’s rights activist Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The book decries the then common practice of vivisection, or scientific experiments on live animals. In Trixy, contemporary readers can trace the roots of the early animal rights movement in Phelps’s influential campaign to introduce legislation to regulate or end this practice. Phelps not only presents a narrative polemic against the cruelty of vivisection but argues that training young doctors in it makes them bad physicians. Emily E. VanDette’s introduction demonstrates that Phelps’s protest writing, which included fiction, pamphlets, essays, and speeches, was well ahead of its time. Though not well known today, Phelps’s 1868 spiritualist novel, The Gates Ajar, which offered a comforting view of the afterlife to readers traumatized by the Civil War, was the century’s second best-selling American novel, surpassed only by Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Recently scholars and readers have begun to reexamine Phelps’s significance. As contemporary authors, including Peter Singer, Jonathan Safran Foer, Donna J. Haraway, Gary L. Francione, and Carol J. Adams, have extended her vision, they have also created new audiences for her work.

The Piazza Tales

Author : Herman Melville
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810105508
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book The Piazza Tales written by Herman Melville and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sylph

Author : Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Sylph written by Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire) and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Libertine's Kiss

Author : Judith James
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 1426864116
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Libertine's Kiss written by Judith James and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his cavalier father at a young age, William de Veres grew up knowing precious little happiness. But William has put the past firmly behind him and as a military hero and noted rake, he rises fast in the ranks of the hedonistic Restoration court. Though not before he is forced to seek shelter from a charming young Puritan woman… The civil wars have cost the once-high-spirited Elizabeth Walters her best friend and her father, leaving her unprotected and alone. She flees an unwanted marriage, seeking safe haven, but what she finds is something she never expected. When her kindness and her beauty bring her to the attention of William, and then the king, she will have a choice to make. After all, can a notorious libertine really be capable of love?

Essential Turgenev

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810110857
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Essential Turgenev written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-22 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Turgenev will provide American readers with the first comprehensive, portable edition of this great Russian author's works. It offers an extensive introduction to the writings that established Turgenev as one of the preeminent literary figures of his time, and reveals the breadth of insight into changing social conditions that made Turgenev a portal to Russian intellectual life. Readers will find complete, exemplary translations of Turgenev's finest novels, Rudin, A Nest of Gentry, and Fathers and Sons, along with the lapidary novella First Love. The volume also includes selections from Sportsman's Sketches, seven of Turgenev's most compelling short stories, and fifteen prose poems. It also contains samples of the author's nonfiction drawn from autobiographical sketches, memoirs, public speeches, plus the influential essay "Hamlet and Don Quixote" and correspondence with Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others.

My Fake Rake

Author : Eva Leigh
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062932411
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book My Fake Rake written by Eva Leigh and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] feast of female empowerment, positive friendships, feel-good moments, and social satire." — NPR “A jolt of electricity, a blast of fresh air—everything delightful and exciting you could want it to be.” — The New York Times Book Review Meet the Union of the Rakes—a new Regency romance series inspired by the Breakfast Club and other classic 80s films! In the first book, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real desire… Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Her solution: to “build” the perfect man, who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing—albeit fake—rake. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace’s feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. If only she hadn’t asked him to help her marry someone else... Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. Yet when he’s faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future—and his heart. *One of Oprah Magazine's Best Historical Romances to Read*

The Adventures of Kornél Esti

Author : Deszö Kosztolányi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811218430
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Kornél Esti written by Deszö Kosztolányi and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A great masterpiece never before available in English, Kornél Esti is the wild final book by a Hungarian genius. Crazy, funny and gorgeously dark, Kornél Esti sets into rollicking action a series of adventures about a man and his wicked dopplegänger, who breathes every forbidden idea of his childhood into his ear, and then reappears decades later. Part Gogol, part Chekhov, and all brilliance, Kosztolányi in his final book serves up his most magical, radical, and intoxicating work. Here is a novel which inquires: What if your id (loyally keeping your name) decides to strike out on its own, cuts a disreputable swath through the world, and then sends home to you all its unpaid bills and ruined maidens? And then: What if you and your alter ego decide to write a book together?

The Lives of the Rakes: Old Rowley (King Charles II)

Author : Edwin Beresford Chancellor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Rakes: Old Rowley (King Charles II) written by Edwin Beresford Chancellor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Essential Fictions

Author : Isaak Babelʹ
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810135956
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Fictions written by Isaak Babelʹ and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Babel: The Essential Fictions is a collection of seventy-two of Isaac Babel's finest short stories and includes Red Cavalry, Odessa Stories, and the "Dovecote" cycle. Newly edited, translated, and annotated by Val Vinokur, this collection also features illustrations by Babel's fellow Odessan Yefim Ladyzhensky.

The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words (Expanded Third Edition)

Author : Peter E. Meltzer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393338975
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Thinker's Thesaurus: Sophisticated Alternatives to Common Words (Expanded Third Edition) written by Peter E. Meltzer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over twenty percent more material, a must for any lover of distinctive words. This entertaining and informative reference features sophisticated and surprising alternatives to common words together with no-fail guides to usage. Avoiding traditional thesauruses’ mundane synonym choices, Peter E. Meltzer puts each word—whether it’s protrepic, apostrophize, iracund, or emulous—in context by using examples from a broad range of contemporary books, periodicals, and newspapers. His new introduction makes the case for why we should widen our vocabulary and use the one right word. This groundbreaking thesaurus remains a unique venture, one that enriches your writing while helping you find the perfect word.

The Lives of the Rakes: 'Old Q' and Barrymore

Author : Edwin Beresford Chancellor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Lives of the Rakes: 'Old Q' and Barrymore written by Edwin Beresford Chancellor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coming from an Off-Key Time

Author : Bogdan Suceava
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126842
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Coming from an Off-Key Time written by Bogdan Suceava and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the apocalyptic novel Coming from-Key Time, Bogdan Suceava satirizes events in his native Romania since the fateful end of the Ceauseseu regime in 1989. Using three interrelated narratives to illustrate the destructive power of Romanian society's most powerful mythologies, he depicts madness of all kinds---but especially religious beliefs and their perversion by outrageous seets. Here horror and humor reside impossibly in the same time and place, and readers experience the vertigo of living in the middle of a violent historical upheaval --

Married to the Rake

Author : Samantha Holt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781080753789
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (537 download)

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Download or read book Married to the Rake written by Samantha Holt and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallflowers and rakes do seldom mix well. Miss Chloe Larkin is completely assured of that. Especially when said rake is a member of the Waverly family--the people responsible for a feud that has been ongoing since practically the dawn of time.But he comes offering a deal...The centuries-old feud between the Larkins and the Waverlys has taken its toll. Brook Waverly wants this fight solved. Now. His ageing father cannot take much more of the stress and he's determined the problem shall be resolved before he comes to inherit.So he needs her help...Chloe is distrustful of Mr.Waverly--and rightly so. Not only is he her lifelong enemy but he has a reputation that would make the most experienced of women blush. And boy does he make this wallflower blush! However, she has little interest in continuing the silly feud and, with her little brother set to inherit one day and her father's failing health, the sooner it is all over, the better. Working with the handsome, and far too charming Mr.Waverly to get their fathers to come to an agreement is...interesting. Especially when he seems to be less concerned with ending the feud and more interested in her. Can she really trust him or is this just another way for his family to get their revenge on hers?If you love enemies to lovers and rakes with a heart of gold, buy Married to the Rake today!

Language and Communication in the Digital Age

Author : Marinela Burada
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527532577
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Language and Communication in the Digital Age written by Marinela Burada and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The digital age has exercised considerable influence not only on language use but also on research and teaching in this field. The present volume showcases some aspects of language-related investigation that reflect the interests, experiences, and challenges of theorists, practitioners, and language instructors today. Drawing on the linguistic corpus, parallel texts in different languages and a variety of approaches and methodologies, the book features three main lines of inquiry: L1 syntactic structure, L1-L2 contact and transfer, and L2 pedagogy. The use of case-studies and authentic data makes Language and Communication in the Digital Age a valuable source of insights into some linguistic peculiarities of Romanian and English, and highlights new research avenues for specialists in language and communication.