Download or read book Sauve Qui Peut written by Lawrence Durrell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVFor the British delegation to Vulgaria, no problem is too small to become a crisis in this lively story collection of diplomatic misadventure/divDIV /divDIVIn the words of Antrobus, master diplomat in the King’s service, diplomacy was once “a quiet and restful trade carried on in soothing inanity among a hundred shady legations and embassies all over the globe.” What changed? What caused this most noble profession to fall from grace? Women, of course. A diplomatic incident begins brewing as soon as the lovely new French ambassador—or is it ambassadress?—arrives in Vulgaria. One of the British delegation is instantly besotted, and about to begin his pursuit when a rival appears in the form of roguish Italian diplomat Bonzo di Porco. Because these are servants of the most advanced governments in the world, they settle their dispute rationally: with swords./divDIV /divDIVJealousy, selfishness, swordplay? All are commonplace in Antrobus’s embassy. In these nine juicy tales, the King’s diplomats may seldom be diplomatic, but they always manage to get the job done—with or without bloodshed./div /div

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Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

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Download or read book Everything Is Cinema written by Richard Brody and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-05-13 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a "serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey" of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age (The New York Times). When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier films, Godard's work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The man himself also projects shifting images—cultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a—if not the—key influence on cinema, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews to demystify the elusive director and his work. Paying as much attention to Godard's technical inventions as to the political forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy conservative family, his fluid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with women and fellow New Wave filmmakers. Everything Is Cinema confirms Godard's greatness and shows decisively that his films have left their mark on screens everywhere.

Download or read book Sauve qui peut written by and published by Hachette Jeunesse. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lizzie, la vétérinaire, a recueilli un renard sauvage dans son cabinet. Mais une urgence l'appelle et elle confie la garde de l'animal à sa fille, Anna... qui le laisse s'échapper. Vite ! Il faut absolument le retrouver avant que quelqu'un ne soit blessé.

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Download or read book The Bronze Eagle written by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days" by Emmuska Orczy Baroness Orczy is a 1915 novel set in a post-French-Revolution world. A romance that follows in the aftermath of Napoleon's takeover of France through the eyes of Crystal, the story's main character. A book full of romance and intrigue, the story will grip readers from the very first page.

Download or read book Richelieu written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Richelieu by George Payne Rainsford James

Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Baroness Emma Orczy US Illustrated written by Baroness Emma "Emmuska" Orczy and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 11007 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hungarian-born British novelist, Baroness Emma Orczy achieved immense fame as the author of ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’, one of the greatest successes of twentieth century literature, as well as numerous historical adventure novels and innovative detective fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Orczy’s collected works, with all the Scarlet Pimpernel adventures in the US public domain, numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Orczy’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major novels and other texts * 25 novels, with individual contents tables * Special ‘Scarlet Pimpernel Series’ table of contents, allowing you to navigate the famous works quickly * Includes rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including BY THE GODS BELOVED, A SON OF THE PEOPLE and NICOLETTE * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Orczy’s rare OLD HUNGARIAN FAIRY TALES – available in no other collection * Includes Orczy’s autobiography - discover the author’s personal and literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please note: due to US copyright restrictions, Orczy’s later novels and short stories cannot appear in this edition. When new texts become available in your public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Scarlet Pimpernel Series The Novels THE EMPEROR’S CANDLESTICKS IN MARY’S REIGN THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL BY THE GODS BELOVED I WILL REPAY A SON OF THE PEOPLE BEAU BROCADE THE ELUSIVE PIMPERNEL THE NEST OF THE SPARROWHAWK PETTICOAT GOVERNMENT A TRUE WOMAN FIRE IN STUBBLE MEADOWSWEET EL DORADO UNTO CÆSAR THE LAUGHING CAVALIER A BRIDE OF THE PLAINS THE BRONZE EAGLE LEATHERFACE LORD TONY’S WIFE A SHEAF OF BLUEBELLS HIS MAJESTY’S WELL-BELOVED THE FIRST SIR PERCY THE TRIUMPH OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL NICOLETTE The Short Story Collections OLD HUNGARIAN FAIRY TALES THE CASE OF MISS ELLIOTT THE OLD MAN IN THE CORNER LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD THE LEAGUE OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL CASTLES IN THE AIR The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Autobiography LINKS IN THE CHAIN OF LIFE Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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Download or read book Encounters with Godard written by James S. Williams and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film aesthetics and ethics.

Encounters with Godard takes the reader on a personal voyage into the sensory pleasures and polyphonic rhythms of Jean-Luc Godard’s multimedia work since the late 1970s, from his feature films and video essays to his published writings, art books, and media performances. Godard, suggests James S. Williams, lays ethical claim to the cinematic, defined in the broadest terms as relationality and artistic resistance. An introductory chapter on the extended history of La Chinoise (1967), a film explicitly of montage, is followed by seven different types of critical encounters with Godard, encompassing the fields of art and photography, music and literature, and foregrounding themes of gender and sexuality, race and violence, mystery and emotion. The Godard who emerges here is a restless and radical experimenter who establishes new cinematic thresholds through new technology and expands the creative potential and free exchange of the archives. Williams examines works including Nouvelle vague (1990), Film socialisme (2010), Hélas pour moi (1993), and the magnum opus Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988–98). Wide-ranging and accessible, Encounters with Godard marks a major intervention in the study of film aesthetics and ethics while forging a vital dialogue with literature, history and politics, art and art history, music and musicology, philosophy, and aesthetics.

“A landmark contribution to our understanding of Godard and of modernist expression as a whole.” — David Sterritt, author of The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible

“Writing with a delirious lucidity, Williams opens Godard to debate and dialogue that informs, extends, opens, and illuminates what may be the greatest and most complex body of cinema of the last half-century.” — Tom Conley, author of Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema

Download or read book Godard and Sound written by Albertine Fox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood the importance of the soundtrack in cinema and relied heavily on the impact of carefully constructed sound to produce innovative effects. For the first time, this book brings together his post-1979 multimedia works, and an analysis of their rich soundscapes.The book provides detailed critical discussions of feature-length films, shorts and videos, delving into Godard's inventive experiments with the cinematic soundtrack and offering new insights into his latest 3D films. By detailing the production contexts and philosophy behind Godard's idiosyncratic sound design, it provides an accessible route to understanding his complex use of music, speech and environmental sound, alongside the distorting effects of speed alteration and auditory excess. The book is framed by the concept of 'acoustic spectatorship': a way of cultivating active listening in the viewer.It also draws on ideas by leading sound theorists, philosophers, musicians, and poets, giving particular emphasis to the pioneering thought of French sound engineer and theorist, Pierre Schaeffer. Softening the boundaries between film studies, sound studies and musicology, Godard and Sound re-evaluates Godard's work from a sonic perspective, and will prove essential reading for those wishing to rebalance the importance of sound for the study of cinema.

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