Download or read book Introduction to the Study of French Classic Reprint written by M Schele De Vere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Introduction to the Study of French Containing interesting and well-graded Selections in Prose and Verse, with Explana tory Notes on the earlier lessons. 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 Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature Classic Reprint written by Professor H. H. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short Introduction, to the Study of French Literature "Literature," say M. de Bonald, "is the expression of society." Napoleon I. could not separate literature from the life (as a whole) of peoples: their books he found "magnanimes quand le peuple est grand; vicieux, frivoles ou insenses quand il se corrompt et s'abaisse." Lamartine says of peoples: "Their memory begins with their literature." For Lemercier literature is the all-in-all, in which and from which and into which all is, comes, goes. Voltaire said: "les feuilles volantes sont la perte de la litterature." Guizot thinks that plastically and aesthetically modern letters are inferior to the old, superior as regards sentiments, profundity, and deep-set ideas. I have quoted these Frenchmen in the forefront of my Notes, as they give in their own incomparable way what we can only express as strangers, less well and, to the French, outlandishly. They have been cited, too, in their prose (original or translated). French prose, to many of us foreigners (i.e., non-French), is exquisite, nearly always. French verse generally pleases us less, often very much less. 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 Introduction to Old French written by François Frédéric Roget and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short Introduction to the Study of French Literature written by H. H. Johnson and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book A Short History of French Literature Classic Reprint written by L. E. Kastner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Short History of French Literature Instead of closing the survey, as do some books, with the decline of Romanticism, or as others, with that of Naturalism, the history of French literature has been traced down to the present day. It may be objected that living writers are too near to us to allow of an impartial and complete judgment on their works. No attempt has been made to pass any such judgment, but such an account of the French literature of today is given as may at least serve to indicate its general tendencies. 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 First Book in French written by Norman Pinney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from First Book in French: Or a Practical Introduction to Reading, Writing, and Speaking the French Language Although this little book can very well be dispensed with by persons passed their childhood, yet it is believed that learners generally will find their satisfaction in the study increased, and their ultimate proficiency advanced, by commencing with it. Those, also, who find it neces sary, in a short time, to obtain such an acquaintance with the language as may be of practical use, without master ing the whole grammar, will find this book the best fitted for their purpose. Although containing but sixty-four short and simple lessons, it teaches all those principles of the language which are the most commonly used in conversation; and he who has studied it thoroughly can communicate his ideas orally in the language, and make his way in French society with little feeling of incon venience. 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 Manual of the History of French Literature Classic Reprint written by Ferdinand Brunetiere and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Manual of the History of French Literature It is from the genealogical standpoint, then, that I have endeavoured to study in the history of French literature the perpetually changing succession of ideas, authors and works; and if there be any novelty in this Manual it is con stituted by this attitude. 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 Introduction to Old French Phonology and Morphology Rewind and Enlarged Classic Reprint written by Frederick Bliss Luquiens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introduction to Old French Phonology and Morphology, (Rewind and Enlarged) This grammar is intended not only to introduce beginners to the study of Old French phonology and morphology from the historical point of View, but also to facilitate their progress to an advanced grammar. 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 Chemical French written by Maurice Louis Dolt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chemical French: An Introduction To The Study Of French Chemical Literature This volume is prepared to help students to overcome the dim culties of the language, and, at the same time, to make them acquire a vocabulary large enough to enable them to read, with understanding, any article written ia any branch of chemistry. The book can be used by a beginner or a class of beginners. The first four exercises are a review of the essentials of the lan guage, and, with the help of 3 F reach grammar, should be studied very carefully. Then follows a series of graded exercises on inorganic chemistry, qualitative and quantitative analysis, organic chemistry, physical chemistry and finally industrial chemistry. It is of course impossible, within the scope of this book, to cover every phase of industrial chemistry, but the few exercises in cluded will proban prove useful. 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 New Method of Learning the French Language Classic Reprint written by Jean Gustave Keetels and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New Method of Learning the French Language In Parts Second and Fourth, the practical predominates; in Parts Third and Fifth, the theoretical. They are so far independent of each other, that the several parts need not be studied in the order in which they stand. The arrangement, however, was suggested by a long course of experience, and adopted after mature delibera tion. The practical develops principles, elements, and facts, in natural succession, but without regard to scientific method; the theoretical embraces, in a connected view, and in systematic order, the cognate parts that have been studied separately. By this plan, the treatment of the verbs is presented to the mind, unembarrassed with other dimculties; the student, once familiar with their forms, may enter upon a course of reading-lessons, which adds variety to the exercises, and increases his interest in the study of the language. 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 Scientific French Reader written by Alexander W. Herdler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Scientific French Reader: Edited With Introduction, Notes And Vocabulary There is scarcely a science wherein the French do not occupy a leading position. To introduce the American student of science to that rich technical literature of which France is so justifiably proud is the design of this Reader. Having but this purpose in view, I do not, of course, claim to supply in my selections the wants of all scientific schools. But since it is undoubtedly needful for our students to acquire some general familiarity with French technical terms and style, the selections I have made bear chiefly on subjects representative of those branches with which the student as well as the teacher is best acquainted. Electricity has received the largest share of attention in the following pages; its ever-widening future and its daily increasing sphere of usefulness to mankind seeming to warrant the prominence given it. Next come mechanics, physics, chemistry and their various industrial applications. The source from which most of the passages have been drawn is the Revue Encyclopedique, a periodical whose lucid style has done much to popularize recent scientific discoveries and inventions. It is my hope that the cuts inserted will aid the student to grasp more easily the theoretical portions of the text, and at the same time increase his interest in what may appear the more practical selections. While explaining the comparatively few idiomatic constructions met with in the text, from the nature of the case the notes contain references chiefly scientific or biographical in character. 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 Royal Road to French written by Academie de Brisay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Royal Road to French: An Introduction to "the De Brisay Analytical Method of Learning the French Language" Did the reader ever ask himself how long it took him to learn his mother tongue? He did not learn it in six months. In six years he learned it very imperfectly and, perhaps even now he may not know it any too well. And yet he followed faithfully all along the Natural Method. Be devoted, not two hours a week for six months to the method, but ten hours every day of his life for years. Look at the child in your own home. From early morning till late at night he hears nothing but English spoken around him. Such sounds as Don't do that, Come here, dear, I'll whip you now, he perhaps hears fifty times a day. It is not to be wondered at that at last he becomes able, not only to understand these sounds, but to utter them himself. He hears also many other phrases of a difi'erent kind, such as a strange notion, a terrible acci dent, it's only human nature, etc., but these sounds fall without effect upon his little ears, for though he may repeat many of them, he does so after the manner of a parrot without the least conception of what the phrases mean. These words repreent abstract ideas. They are not the names of objects which the child sees and hears about him they do not indicate the relation of these objects to one another they are not the language of the child, but of the matured mind. 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 Introduction to Old French written by F. F. Roget and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A New History of French Literature written by Denis Hollier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-19 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the general reader, this splendid introduction to French literature from 842 A.D.—the date of the earliest surviving document in any Romance language—to the present decade is the most compact and imaginative single-volume guide available in English to the French literary tradition. In fact, no comparable work exists in either language. It is not the customary inventory of authors and titles but rather a collection of wide-angled views of historical and cultural phenomena. It sets before us writers, public figures, criminals, saints, and monarchs, as well as religious, cultural, and social revolutions. It gives us books, paintings, public monuments, even TV shows. Written by 164 American and European specialists, the essays are introduced by date and arranged in chronological order, but here ends the book’s resemblance to the usual history of literature. Each date is followed by a headline evoking an event that indicates the chronological point of departure. Usually the event is literary—the publication of an original work, a journal, a translation, the first performance of a play, the death of an author—but some events are literary only in terms of their repercussions and resonances. Essays devoted to a genre exist alongside essays devoted to one book, institutions are presented side by side with literary movements, and large surveys appear next to detailed discussions of specific landmarks. No article is limited to the “life and works” of a single author. Proust, for example, appears through various lenses: fleetingly, in 1701, apropos of Antoine Galland’s translation of The Thousand and One Nights; in 1898, in connection with the Dreyfus Affair; in 1905, on the occasion of the law on the separation of church and state; in 1911, in relation to Gide and their different treatments of homosexuality; and at his death in 1922. Without attempting to cover every author, work, and cultural development since the Serments de Strasbourg in 842, this history succeeds in being both informative and critical about the more than 1,000 years it describes. The contributors offer us a chance to appreciate not only French culture but also the major critical positions in literary studies today. A New History of French Literature will be essential reading for all engaged in the study of French culture and for all who are interested in it. It is an authoritative, lively, and readable volume.
Download or read book French Lyrics Classic Reprint written by Arthur Graves Canfield and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Lyrics This book is intended as an introduction to the reading and study of French lyric poetry. If it contribute toward making that poetry more widely known and more justly appreciated its purpose will have been fulfilled. It is rather usual among English-speaking people to think slightingly of the poetry of France, especially of her lyrics. This is not unnatural. The qualities that give French verse its distinction are very different from those that make the strength and the charm of our English lyrics. But we must guard ourselves against the conclusion that because a work is unlike those that we are accustomed to admire it is necessarily bad. There are many kinds of excellence. And this little book must have been poorly put together indeed if it fail to suggest to the reader that France possesses a wealth of lyric verse which, whatever be its shortcomings in those qualities that characterize our English lyrics, has others quite its own, both of form and of spirit, that give it a high and serious interest and no small measure of beauty and charm. The editor has sought to keep the purpose of the volume constantly in view in preparing the introduction and notes. He has hoped to supply such information as would be most helpful, if not indispensable, to the reader. 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 Selections From Standard French Authors written by Othon Goepp Guerlac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Standard French Authors: A Reader For First And Second Year Students; With Vocabulary, Notes, And Brief Biographical Sketches An attempt has also been made, in the biographical and literary notes which accompany the selections, to call atten tion to a few of the most essential facts regarding each author cited. While these notes are necessarily brief, it is hoped that they may serve the purpose of interesting the student in the men whose works he is reading. Thus this book of F rench selections may prove useful introduction to the study of F rench as a literature, as well as to French as a language. 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 Anthology Of French Prose And Poetry Classic Reprint written by Williamson Updike Vreeland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Anthology Of French Prose And Poetry The use of anthologies as an introduction to the general study of literature, and also as a preparation for an appreciative reading of complete texts, is rapidly growing in favor. They have for a long time been used on the continent, and were recently recommended by an international congress which met at Paris. They introduce the student to works with which he may, later on, be inclined to cultivate a more intimate acquaint ance. By enabling the student to pass, in a brief interval, from the tragedy of Corneille, for example, to that of Racine, from Moli're's comedy to the comedy of Marivaux and Beaumarchais, from the prose of Rousseau to that of Bernardin de Saint - Pierre and Chateaubriand, they give him, if not a complete, at least a first-hand idea of the succession of schools of writers and of the development of the methods of composition in poetry and prose. They also encourage him to appreciate the beauty and perfection of individual pages and even paragraphs, independent of the development of the plot. And the experience in our own classes has convinced us that, for American students, to whom it is desired to give, at the same time, proficiency in reading different styles of varied degrees of difficulty and some real acquaintance with the foreign authors themselves, with their style and their thought, the use of anthologies is of the greatest importance. 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.
