Download or read book Shorts from Scenes from Private Life written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-08-14T17:58:54Z with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short stories and novellas from the Scenes from Private Life portion of Balzac’s The Human Comedy represent a cross-section of French culture from the first half of the nineteenth century. There are drawing room intrigues of the rich (“Domestic Peace”), unrequited love (“The Imaginary Mistress”), a romance among the residents of a boarding house (“The Purse”), and even a Corsican vendetta (“The Vendetta”). Each of these, as well as the remaining stories in the collection, are marked by Balzac’s renowned talent for fully-realized characters, by his rich and detailed descriptions of places and people, and especially of the emotions that drive them. As a progenitor of the modern novel, he wanted to write about not only the romantic and beautiful, but also the hurtful and disturbing; in short, he wanted to write about daily French life, however good or bad it might be. Many of the characters so richly described here will be seen again and again throughout the rest of The Human Comedy. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book A Private Life written by Ran Chen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against a backdrop of the decades that included the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square Incident, A Private Life portrays the effect of that social change and political turbulence on the protagonists inner life as she moves from childhood to early maturity.
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Download or read book Honor de Balzac Scenes of private life written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Short History of English Literature written by Harry Blamires and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2012. This work of introduction is designed to escort the reader through some six centuries of English literature. It begins in the fourteenth century at the point at which the language written in our country is recognizably our own, and ends in the 1950s. It is a compact survey, summing up the substance and quality of the individual achievements that make up our literature. The aim is to leave the reader informed about each writer’s main output, sensitive to the special character of his gifts, and aware of his place in the story of our literature as a whole.
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Download or read book Short Plays from Dickens for the Use of Amateur and School Dramatic Societies written by Horace Baker Browne and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
