Nana opens in 1867, the year of the World Fair, when Paris, thronged by a cosmopolitan elite, was la Ville Lumiere, a perfect victim for Zola's scathing denunciation of hypocrisy and fin-de-siecle mor ... 続きを読む
Three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession are at the centre of Hugo's novel. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeac ... 続きを読む
The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy is the first book to tell this story. I ... 続きを読む
Follow-up to Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales
Writers include Colette, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola
Each tale evokes a different aspect of this ench ... 続きを読む
The third in a trilogy of short story collections translated by Helen Constantine and based in the French capital
Features tales by well-known and celebrated writers alongside lesser known author ... 続きを読む
Paris is the most visited city in the world; these evocative stories - by writers such as Maupassant, Colette, and Zola - will enchant the visitor and armchair traveller alike
Unique in exploring ... 続きを読む
This is the tragic story of a father whose obsessive love for his two daughters leads to his financial and personal ruin. It is set against the background of a whole society driven by social ambition ... 続きを読む
Charles de Secondat,Baron de Montesquieu; Margaret Mauldon; Andrew Kahn
ページ
320 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
129 x 196 mm
刊行日
2008年04月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
Oh! Monsieur is Persian? That's most extraordinary! How can someone be Persian?' Two Persian travellers, Usbek and Rica, arrive in Paris just before the death of Louis XIV and in time to witness the h ... 続きを読む
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siècle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The period covers the most important deve ... 続きを読む
Poetry and Radical Politics in fin de siecle France explores the relations between poetry and politics in France in the last decade of the 19th century. The period covers perhaps the most important de ... 続きを読む
