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Book Au soleil  or  African wanderings  La vie errante  or  In Vagabondia

Download or read book Au soleil or African wanderings La vie errante or In Vagabondia written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Au Soleil Or African Wanderings  and  La Vie Errante Or In Vagabondia

Download or read book Au Soleil Or African Wanderings and La Vie Errante Or In Vagabondia written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Au soleil  or  African wanderings  La vie errante  or  In vagabondia

Download or read book Au soleil or African wanderings La vie errante or In vagabondia written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Au soleil  La vie errante

Download or read book Au soleil La vie errante written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Au soleil  La vie errante

Download or read book Au soleil La vie errante written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A selection from the writings of Guy de Maupassant

Download or read book A selection from the writings of Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Desert Named Peace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin Claude Brower
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0231154933
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book A Desert Named Peace written by Benjamin Claude Brower and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap. A Desert Named Peace examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences. Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, A Desert Named Peace offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.

Book Djeha  the North African Trickster

Download or read book Djeha the North African Trickster written by Christa C. Jones and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Djeha—also known as Juha, Jeh’a, and Ch’ha, among many variations—is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that delights in immoral behavior. Orientalists Auguste Mouliéras (1855-1931) and René Basset (1855-1924) were among the first Frenchmen to collect and translate popular Berber folktales. Today, trickster folktales from Algeria’s mountainous Kabylia region are not well known in the Anglophone world, even though they continue to be highly popular in France and in North Africa. Djeha, the North African Trickster is an annotated, critical translation of Auguste Mouliéras’s folktale collection Les Fourberies de Si Djeh’a, first published in French in 1892. The volume contains sixty tales and an in-depth introduction in which Christa C. Jones discusses jocular literature in Islam, the widespread oral folktale tradition linked to Djeha and his Turkish twin brother Nasreddin Hoca, and the impact of colonialism on the gathering and dissemination of the tales. The trickster is at the center of six themed chapters: “Family and Kinship”; “Animal Tales"; “Faces, Places, or Daily Life in the Village"; “Foodways”; “The Intricacies of Hospitality: Beware of Friends and Foes!"; and “Religion, Death, and the Afterlife.” Each chapter contains ten folktales preceded by a short introduction that contextualizes the pieces using historical, folkloristic, literary, and ethnographical sources. Ultimately, the book contributes to the preservation of an ancestral oral heritage, delivering this enduring character to new audiences.

Book The Belly of Paris

    Book Details:
  • Author : Émile Zola
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2023-12-27
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book The Belly of Paris written by Émile Zola and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.

Book Ghosts of the Belle   poque

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Edwards
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-04-16
  • ISBN : 1838603891
  • Pages : 185 pages

Download or read book Ghosts of the Belle poque written by Andrew Edwards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grand Hôtel et des Palmes is an icon of Palermo life. Its rooms and public spaces have witnessed the events that have shaped twentieth century Sicily: everything from the suicide of a poet to political intrigues and a clandestine mafia meeting. This hotel has a long and venerable history. It started out as a private residence for the Ingham-Whitakers, the Anglo-Sicilian family of marsala wine fame, before being sold to the hotelier Enrico Ragusa in 1874. Wagner was one of the most eminent early guests, looking for inspiration to finish his last opera, Parsifal. A few days after its completion, a nervous Renoir arrived to paint his portrait. Months later came Guy de Maupassant, who asked to see Wagner's former suite so that he might detect 'a little of his personality'. The novelist and poet, Raymond Roussel, arrived in the 1930s, but was destined to leave in a coffin. Arthur Miller, Sophia Loren and Maria Callas were all guests and when Visconti was filming The Leopard in Sicily, the entire cast – notably Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon – visited the hotel. Lancaster even dined with a Baron who had made the hotel his home for reasons shrouded in mystery. Less illustrious guests have included the occultist Aleister Crowley, Lucky Luciano and other mafiosi. Even Giulio Andreotti, the former Italian Prime Minister, who stood trial for complicity in the murder of a journalist and mafia association in the '90s opted for the hotel's Belle Époque opulence. Ghosts of the Belle Époque showcases a richly researched history of this historic hotel, with a cast of characters ranging from the good to the bad and the decidedly ugly.

Book Christian Muslim Relations  A Bibliographical History Volume 21  South western Europe  1800 1914

Download or read book Christian Muslim Relations A Bibliographical History Volume 21 South western Europe 1800 1914 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 21 (CMR 21), covering South-western Europe in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous new and established scholars, CMR 21, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a fundamental tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha T. Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan M. Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel.

Book Classified Catalogue

Download or read book Classified Catalogue written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Works of Guy de Maupassant

Download or read book Works of Guy de Maupassant written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life Work of Henri Ren   Guy de Maupassant  Embracing Romance  Travel  Comedy   Verse  for the First Time Complete in English

Download or read book The Life Work of Henri Ren Guy de Maupassant Embracing Romance Travel Comedy Verse for the First Time Complete in English written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To the Sun

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy de Maupassant
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2008-05-15
  • ISBN : 0955852501
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book To the Sun written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 1881, having established himself as a writer of great pedigree and potential and at the beginning of a ten-year period that would see him become one of the most popular authors of his age, Maupassant embarked on a dangerous journey to the troubled colony of Algeria, believed to be on the verge of an Arab insurrection. In To the Sun Maupassant describes a land and populace vanquished by the twin powers of the sun and French colonialism, he bows down before the former, finding a personal absolution in the light, heat and space of the desert. But he stands up to the latter, pointing out the faults and absurdities of French colonialism, all the while demonstrating his brilliance as a political reporter who came to understand Algeria and its problems in such a short space of time. This is the first complete English translation of Maupassant's travel book Au soleil (1884), including the three Fragments 'At the Spas'; 'In Brittany'; and 'Le Creusot', as well as full critical apparatus.