A compelling translation of one of Zola's most powerful novels, the nineteenth work in his famous Rougon-Macquart series that traces the fortunes of a family over five generations.
La Débâcle&nbs ... 続きを読む
This selection of twenty-seven stories shows Maupassant at his comic, cruel, and brilliant best. In addition to the poignant title story, it includes one of the most famous tales ever written, The Nec ... 続きを読む
every heart imagines itself the first to thrill to a myriad sensations which once stirred the hearts of the earliest creatures and which will again stir the hearts of the last men and women to walk th ... 続きを読む
Set against the backdrop of the 1848 Revolution, A Sentimental Education is the story of young lawyer Frederic Moreau's infatuation with the demurely exotic Madame Arnoux.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For ov ... 続きを読む
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Margaret Mauldon; Nicholas White
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272 ページ
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130 x 195 mm
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2009年05月
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Oxford World's Classics
It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall have said what I had to say.'
As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in ... 続きを読む
Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchm ... 続きを読む
Guy de Maupassant; Margaret Mauldon; Robert Lethbridge
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368 ページ
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Paperback
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129 x 195 mm
刊行日
2008年09月
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Oxford World's Classics
His rise testifies to the decline of a whole society.' Jean-Paul Sartre
Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened 'Bel-A ... 続きを読む
If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of a ... 続きを読む
Carmen, Merimee's classic tale of passion and power, provided the inspiration for one of the world's most enduringly popular operas, and numerous films. Like Carmen, the other stories in this book, i ... 続きを読む
Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.'
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscap ... 続きを読む