La Bête Humaine(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) von Émile Zola, RogerPearson, Mile Zola Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953866-9, ISBN: 0-19-953866-2
"Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast?La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of the Se ..."
"The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring, of prisons and heroic escape, of political chicanery and sublime personal courage. Set at the beginning of the nineteenth century, amidst the golden landscapes of northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo, and of his incomparable aunt Gina, her suitor Prime Minister Mosca, and ..."
A Life(1st Edition) The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) von Guy De Maupassant, RogerPearson Paperback, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955551-2, ISBN: 0-19-955551-6
"`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 the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novels, ..."
"Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we ..."
"In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled `A Chronicle of 1830', Stendhal's depiction of a nation of smug hypocrites scandalized contemporary readers, who recognized themselves or their peers and f ..."
A Life(Updated) The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) von RogerPearson, Guy De Maupassant, Varios Autores Paperback, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283298-6, ISBN: 0-19-283298-0
"`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 the earth' What is a life? How shall a storyteller conceive a life? What if art means pattern and life has none? How, then, can any story be true to life? These are some of the questions which inform the first of Maupassant's six novel ..."
"At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey. In "Stephane Mallarme", Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet', he declared at the age of twenty-two, and he duly lived a poet's ..."
Voltaire Almighty A Life in Pursuit of Freedom von RogerPearson Hardcover, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Bloomsbury Usa ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-630-4, ISBN: 1-58234-630-5
"With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearsonâs Voltaire Almighty brings the father of Enlightenment to vivid life. Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refu ..."
Modern Literatures in Perspective Ser. Stendhal : The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma von RogerPearson 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-89492-6, ISBN: 1-317-89492-8
"remains that the pursuit of happiness would prove impossible in a universe that
was irremediably divided. And one can also say that it did indeed prove
impossible, that Stendhal's own lived experience ended in failure. ... De l'
influence de l'habitude sur lafaculté de penser [Of the Influence ofHahit on the
Faculty of Thought], ed. ... soon flounders as he experiences the first onset of raw
vanity; whereas souls like that of Fabric ..."
Critical Lives Stephane Mallarme von RogerPearson 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-727-5, ISBN: 1-86189-727-8
"... electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior
permission of the publishers. Printed and bound in Great Britain by cpi Antony
Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Pearson, Roger Stephane Mallarme. – (Critical lives) 1. Mallarme, Stephane,
1842–1898. 2. Poets, French 19th century Biography. I. Title II. Series 841.8-dc22
isbn 978 1 86189 659 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 Co ..."
Mallarmé and Circumstance(1st Edition) The Translation of Silence von RogerPearson Hardcover, 288 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-926674-6, ISBN: 0-19-926674-3
"Following his Unfolding Mallarmé: The Development of a Poetic Art, this book is the second in Roger Pearson's authoritative two-volume study of the work of Stéphanie Mallarmé (1842-1898), and the first comprehensive study of Mallarmé's 'poetry of circumstance' in any language. For Mallarmé, in a world without God, the role of the poet is to break the silence with language and to confer upon the contingency of circumstance a therapeutic ..."
The Thread Collected Poems 1980-1991 von RogerPearson Veröffentlicht 1992 von Soft Pencil Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9517262-1-1, ISBN: 0-9517262-1-8
Stendhal's Violin A Novelist and his Reader (Hardback) von RogerPearson Hardcover, 312 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1992 von Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815851-6, ISBN: 0-19-815851-3
"This new study of Stendhal's novels takes its title from Stendhal's dictum 'Un roman est comme un archet, la caisse du violon qui rend les sons, c'est l'ame du lecteur.' Its central theme is the relationship between novelist and reader, as orchestrated in Armance, Le Rouge et le Noir, Lucien Leuwen and La Chartreuse de Parme. From the author's analyses of these novels it emerges that Stendhal plays upon the reader's reactions and makes ..."
Anthropological Glossary(1st Edition) von RogerPearson Hardcover, 286 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1985 von Krieger Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-0-89874-510-8, ISBN: 0-89874-510-1
"This book provides a concise guide to terms commonly used in the area of anthropology and related disciplines, including many concepts utilized in the study of archaeology, paleontology, anthropological linguistics, mythology, comparative religion, genetics, and evolutionary science. It supplies invaluable supplementary reference material for use in conjunction with standard textbooks as well as more specialized publications."
"The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deform ..."
"The Charterhouse of Parma (1839) is a compelling novel of passion and daring. Set at the beginning of the 19th-century in northern Italy, it traces the joyous but ill-starred amorous exploits of a handsome young aristocrat called Fabrice del Dongo. The novel's great achievement is to conjure up the excitement and romance of youth while never losing sight of the harsh realities which beset the pursuit of happiness. This new translation c ..."
"The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist who has come from the provinces to conquer Paris but is conquered instead by the flaws of his own genius. Set in the 1860s and 1870s, it is the most autobiographical of the twenty novels in Zola's Rougon-Macquart series. It provides a unique insight into Zola's career as a writer and his relationship with Cezanne, a friend since their schoold ..."
La Bete Humaine(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) von Émile Zola, RogerPearson, Mile Zola Paperback, 432 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283814-8, ISBN: 0-19-283814-8
"Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale of murder, passion and possession, it is also a compassionate study of individuals derailed by atavistic forces beyond their control. Zola considered this his `most finely worked' novel, and in it he powerfully evokes life at the end of t ..."
"In this vigorous and fast-moving novel of post-Napoleonic France, Julien Sorel's plans to reach the higher echelons of society through the priesthood are defelected by his realization that the attainment of happiness is of greater consequence than the pursuit of ambition. Subtitled `A Chronicle of 1830', Stendhal's depiction of a nation of smug hypocrites scandalized contemporary readers, who recognized themselves or their peers and ..."