Download or read book Pierre et jean and other stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pierre Et Jean written by Guy de Maupassant and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierre et Jean marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the pyschological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy and is also notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists.
Download or read book Une Vie and Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pierre et Jean written by Guy de Maupassant and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional social realism and the psychological novel. It is recognized as a classic study of filial jealousy, triggered by one of the two brothers of its title finding himself the sole inheritor of the fortune of his mother's former lover. Pierre et Jean is set in Le Havre in the 1880s and is notable for its evocation of the Normandy coastline captured by the Impressionists. But Maupassant's achievement is to have woven from this simple plot in a maritime context a brilliantly crafted exploration of the complexities at the heart of family life.
Download or read book The Princess and Other Stories written by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practising doctor, Chekhov was an acute observer of Russian society's moral, as well as physical sickness. Joining The Russian Master, Ward Number Six, and A Woman's Kingdom in the World's Classics series, this collection, including `The Party', `After the Theatre', and `A Case History', again poses his recurrent literary quandary of whether to moralize, hoping to reform these ailments, or simply to entertain. The solution is to be found in the stories themselves, which, like his plays,offer no easy answers, but pinpoint the anguish, tedium, or downright evil of his characters with an irony that makes them both poignant and truthful.
Download or read book First Love and Other Stories written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together six of Turgenev's best known stories in one volume, this collection includes "First Love," "Asya," "Mumu," "The Diary of a Superfluous Man," "Song of Triumphant Love," and "King Lear of the Steppes."
Download or read book Catalogue written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Girl with the Golden Eyes and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three short fictions in this unique collection, Sarrasine, The Unknown Masterpiece, and The Girl with the Golden Eyes, deal with the relationship between artistic ideals and sexual desires. They show Balzac's mastery of the seductions of storytelling, and are among the 19th century's richest explorations of life and art.
Download or read book The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.
Download or read book Une Vie Or The History Of A Heart And Other Stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Une vie Piece of string Sundays of a bourgeois and other stories written by Guy de Maupassant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen of Spades and Other Stories written by Alexander Pushkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories. In this classic literary representation of gambling, Alexander Pushkin explores the nature of obsession. Hints of the occult and gothic alternate with scenes of St Petersburg high-society in the story of the passionate Hermann's quest to master chance and make his fortune at the card-table. Underlying the taut plot is an ironical treatment of the romantic dreamer and social outcast. This volume contains three other major works of Pushkin's fiction, moving from the witty parodies of sentimentalism and high melodrama in The Tales of Belkin to an early experiment with recreating the past in Peter the Great's Blackamoor. It concludes with the novel-length masterpiece The Captain's Daughter, which combines historical fiction in the manner of Sir Walter Scott with the colour and devices of the Russian fairy-tale in a narrative of rebellion and romance. These new translations, as well as being meticulously faithful to the original, do full justice to the elegance and fluency of Pushkin's prose. The Introduction provides insightful readings of the stories and places them in their European literary context. A chronology of the Pugachov Uprising illuminates the events in The Captain's Daughter. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book The Conquest of Plassans written by Émile Zola and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Abbé Faujas has arrived!' The arrival of Abbé Faujas in the provincial town of Plassans has profound consequences for the community, and for the family of François Mouret in particular. Faujas and his mother come to lodge with François, his wife Marthe, and their three children, and Marthe quickly falls under the influence of the priest. Ambitious and unscrupulous, Faujas gradually infiltrates into all quarters of the town, intent on political as well as religious conquest. Intrigue, slander, and insinuation tear the townsfolk apart, creating suspicion and distrust, and driving the Mourets to ever more extreme actions. The fourth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart sequence, The Conquest of Plassans returns to the fictional Provençal town from which the family sprang in The Fortune of the Rougons. In one of the most psychological of his novels, Zola links small-town politics to the greater political and national dramas of the Second Empire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Four Major Plays written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of plays is taken from the Oxford Ibsen, James McFarlane's acclaimed scholarly edition.
Download or read book Danton s Death Leonce and Lena Woyzeck written by Georg Büchner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of Büchner's three theatrical works includes Danton's Death, his great play about the French Revolution, Leonce and Lena, his "black" romantic comedy and Woyzeck, the unfinished work on which Alban Berg based his famous opera. All three works remained virtually unknown for half a century but today have found an important place in the modern repertory.
Download or read book On Christian Teaching written by Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B'There are certain rules for interpreting the scriptures which, as I am well aware, can usefully be passed on to those with an appetite for such study...' On Christian Teaching is one of Augustine's most important works on the classical tradition. Written to enable Christian students to be their own interpreters of the Bible, it provides an outline of Christian theology, a detailed discussion of ethical problems, and a fascinating early contributionto sign theory. Augustine also makes a systematic attempt to determine what elements of classical education are permissible for a Christian, and in the last book suggests ways in which Ciceronian rhetorical principles may help in communicating the faith. This long-needed, completely new andup-to-date translation gives a close but stylish representation of Augustine's thought and expression. References to the classical background are carefully explained and Roger Green's introduction describes the aims and circumstances of the work, and outlines its influence on major figures in theMiddle Ages and the Renaissance.
Download or read book The Small House at Allington written by Anthony Trollope and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Dale falls passionately in love with the urbane Adolphus Crosbie and is devastated when he abandons her for another. She has another suitor, devoted to her since childhood: can she find happiness in Johnny's courtship? This is a new edition of one of Trollope's most successful Barsetshire novels.
