Download or read book French Novelists of To Day Classic Reprint written by Winifred Stephens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Novelists of to-Day The author is glad to take this opportunity of thanking those novelists who have kindly aided her in drawing up the bibliographical lists and who have generously placed their works at her disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book French Literature of To Day written by Yetta Blaze De Bury and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Literature of to-Day: A Study of the Principal Romancers and Essayists TO run a connecting thread through the sketches contained in this little book were a futile task. The thread would be broken at once; for could Zola be tied to Brunetiere, or Anatole France to Vogiie? Reedited papers, gathered into one vol ume, are very much like a miscellaneous company of steamboat passengers, each of whom has gone on board independently of the rest. When cir cumstances thus bring together the censured and the censor, silence among the passengers answers for peace. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book French Prose and Poetry written by Edward Hicks Magill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Prose And Poetry: Being An Advanced French Reader Part 1. Of the present volume is devoted to Selections in Prose, beginning with Balzac, one of the earliest French authors who wrote his native tongue in its purity, and who is justly regarded as the father and founder of modern French prose literature, and ending with extracts from some of the most illustrious French prose writers of our own day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lock and Key Library written by Julian Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories; French Novels Terrible, however, as he sometimes was to those who surrounded him, Count Kostia was yet a Civilized devil. So, after a stay of three years under tropica_l skies, he began to sigh for old Europe, and one fine day saw him disembark upon the quays of Lisbon. He crossed Portugal, Spain, the south of France and Switzerland. At Basle, he learned that on the borders of the Rhine, between Coblenz and Bonn, in a situation quite isolated, an old castle was for sale. To this place he hurried and bought the antique walls and the lands. Which belonged to them, without discussing the price and Without making a detailed examination of the property. T he bargain concluded, he made some hasty and indis pensable repairs on one of the buildings which composed a part of his dilapidated manor, and which claimed the im posing name of the fortress of Geierfels, and at once installed himself therein, hoping to pass the rest of his life in peace able and studious seclusion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Great Modern French Stories written by Willard Huntington Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology Mme. De Stael, however, had much to do with the liberal izing Of French letters. On the formal and aesthetic side Of literature her in uence was nugatory, but she reacted in a salutary manner against the cramping restrictions Of the purely classic viewpoint. She brought new, if borrowed, ideas to the novel; she broadened its outlook; and she awakened in the younger generation of writers a spirit Of freedom and intrepidity. It was the fecundity of her thought which enriched all the serious fiction writing which fol lowed her. Her Delphine and Corinne, though scarcely read today, played very much the same part in the devel Opment Of French fiction that the works of Richter and Goethe played in the development Of German fiction. The novel became a medium not for esthetic form but for esthetic ideas. In her the literature Of her country donned the garb of cosmopolitanism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book R pertoire Des Prosateurs Fran ais or Selections in Prose from the Best French Authors written by J. C Delille and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Répertoire des Prosateurs Français, Or Selections In Prose From The Best French Authors: With Biographical Sketches And Annotations Dictionary of the French Academy has been 8tfictly adhered to; consequently this work may be considered as stamped with the highest lexicographical authority, being modelled on the standard of the present day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Aucassin and Nicolette Translated from the Old French Classic Reprint written by Francis William Bourdillon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aucassin and Nicolette: Translated From the Old French The story of Love, that simple theme with variations ad libitum, ad is never old, never stale, never out-of-date. And as we some times seek rest from the brilliant audacities and complex passions of Wagner or Tschaikowsky in the tender simplicity of some ancient English air, so we occasionally turn with relief from the wit and insight and subtlety of our modern novelists to the old uncomplicated tales of faerie or romance, and find them after all more moving, more tender, even more real, than all the laboured realism of these photographic days. And here before us is of all pretty love-stories perhaps the prettiest. Idyllic as Daphnis and Chloe, romantic as Romeo and Juliet, tender as Undine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Books and Characters French English Classic Reprint written by Lytton Strachey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Books and Characters, French English When Ingres painted his vast Apotheosis of Homer, he represented, grouped round the central throne, all the great poets of the ancient and modern worlds, with a single ex ception - Shakespeare. After some persuasion, he relented so far as to introduce into his picture a part of that offensive personage; and English visitors at the Louvre can now see, to their disgust or their amusement, the truncated image of rather less than half of the author of King Lear just appear ing at the extreme edge of the enormous canvas. French taste, let us hope, has changed since the days of Ingres; Shakespeare would doubtless now be advanced - though per haps chiefly from a sense of duty - to the very steps of the central throne. But if an English painter were to choose a similar subject, how would he treat the master who stands acknowledged as the most characteristic representative of the literature of France? Would Racine find a place in the picture at all? Or, if he did, would more of him be visible than the last curl of his full-bottomed wig, whisking away into the outer darkness? There is something inexplicable about the intensity of national tastes and the violence of national differences. If, as in the good old days, I could boldly believe a Frenchman to be an inferior creature, while he, as simply, wrote me down a savage, there would be an easy end of the matter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Fat and the Thin written by Emile Zola and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Fat and the Thin: Le Ventre De Paris The Paris markets form such a world of their own, and teem at certain hours of the day and night with such exuberance of life, that it was only natural they should attract the attention of a novelist like M. Zola, who, to use his own words, delights in any subject in which vast masses of people can be shown in motion.' Mr. Sherard tells us' that the idea of 'le Ventre de Paris' first occurred to M. Zola in 1872, when he used continually to take his friend Paul Alexis for a ramble through the Halles. I have in my possession, however, an article written by M. Zola some five or six years before that time, and in this one can already detect the germ of the present work; just as the motif of another of M. Zola's novels, La J oie de Vivre, ' can be traced to a short story written for a Russian review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book L vang liste written by Alphonse Daudet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from L'évangéliste: A Parisian Novel Madame Ebsen sank upon a chair crushed and motionless, the folds of her woolen mourning dress falling around her. She had not strength even to remove her shawl and her hat, on which a stiff crape veil rose in sharp points around her large kindly face, all swollen with tears. Wiping her eyes energetically, she at last began to enumerate in a loud voice all the virtues of her who had gone - her goodness, her gayety, her courage, and told so many episodes of her own life and that of her daughter, that a stranger admitted to this scene would have learned the entire history of the family. He would have heard how Monsieur Ebsen, an engineer of Copenhagen, ruined by his inventions, came to Paris twenty years before to obtain a patent for an electric clock which had never gone as was desired - and how the inventor died, leaving his wife alone with the old mother, and so poor that she did not know what was to become of her in her confinement. Ah! Without grandmother then, what would have been done - without grandmother and her brave little crochet needle which she made fly day and night working hand guipure, which at that time was little known in Paris, and which the old dame went bravely forth to sell at the shops. In this way she kept the house going and got a good nurse for little Eline - but those circles of fine lace injured her eyes. Dear, dear grandmother! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book An Elementary French Reader Classic Reprint written by Gaston Douay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary French Reader With regard to beginners, 13ve may say that the only stu dents who really need 3 Reader are those who begin td study F rench two or three years before entering college, or those who have to take F rench at college; younger pupils are likely to require different books. The high-school or college student, for whom the present book is chiefly intended, needs texts varied in tone. Be sides the usual anecdotes from modern authors, he should read, ih the early period of his instruction, few pages from great thinkers and historians. Extracts from writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been introduced here for that purpose. The F rench of that period does not differ materially from the French of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Prosateurs Et Po tes Fran ais Or Selections From The Best French Authors written by Leon Contanseau and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prosateurs Et Poètes Français, Or Selections From The Best French Authors: With An Introduction Of Easy Pieces, Arranged In Chronological Order, From The Age Of Louis XIV To The Present Day; With Biographical Sketches Sous un de ces toits, dans une chambre étroite, étaient assises, travaillant de leurs mains, une femme à. Cheveux blancs et une jeune fille. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel written by Francois Rabelais and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel: From the French of Rabelais How Gargantua was instruéted by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Celebrated Crimes Classic Reprint written by Alexandre Dumas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes IN preparing for publication, in an English dress, the following work of one of the most popular French writers of the present day, the Translator has carefully removed from it several of the blemishes of the modern school of literature to which it belongs levity of expression on serious subjects, indelicacy of language, and a desire to gratify the vulgar appetite for horrible and revolting de tails. These faults vitiate many productions which are otherwise of value and importance; and which, simply by revision, may be accommodated to English taste and moral feeling, and rendered not only unexceptionable, but inte resting and useful. This, it is believed, will be found to be the case with the Crimes Celebres of M. Alexandre dumas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Readings in Present Day Writers Classic Reprint written by Raymond Woodbury Pence and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Readings in Present-Day Writers John V. A. Weaver; Mr. Stephen French Whitman; and Mr. Charles M. Wilson. Specific acknowledgment to author and to publisher has been made in connection with each selection used. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Ten Tales Classic Reprint written by Francois Coppee and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ten Tales The conte is a form of fiction in which the French have always delighted and in which they have always excelled, from the days of the jongleurs and the trouveres, past the periods of La Fontaine and Voltaire, down to the present. The conte is a tale, something more than a sketch, it may be, and something less than a short story. In verse it is at times but a mere rhymed anecdote, or it may attain almost to the direct swiftness of a ballad. The Canterbury Tales are contes, most of them, if not all; and so are some of the Tales of a Wayside Inn. The free-and-easy tales of Prior were written in imitation of the French conte en vers; and that, likewise, was the model of more than one of the lively narrative poems of Mr. Austin Dobson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A History of French Literature written by William Albert Nitze and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of French Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Great War The present History of French Literature, intended both for the general reader and for students, does not aim to be exhaus tive. It is divided into three parts: Medieval, Renaissance and Modern; and within these parts it emphasizes in turn the chief literary movements and writers, leaving minor tendencies and figures out of consideration or mentioning them only inci dentally. Mere lists of names and dates, valuable as they are for reference, belong rather to bibliography than to literary his tory as such. Thus our aim has been to give a connected ao count oi the main currents of French literature from the earliest times down to the present day. In this attempt we have had several further considerations to guide us. In the first place, the book is written primarily for American and English readers. The one key to literary treasures is not erudition but sympathy. Needless to say, we would instill in our readers a liking for French literature; but such sympathy will come only through an appreciation of the French, as distinguished from the anglo-saxon, point of view. Hence the introductory chapter on the Spirit of French Letters and, in the body of the book, the frequent references to what appear to be dominant French traits. Another result of this method is the attention we give to the historical and social background. Whether we have succeeded or not, we have consistently tried to depict for each age the historical and social elements that produced it; briefly of course, with the ex pectation that the reader will complete the outline by reference to works dealing directly with these subjects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
