"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"Officer, diplomat, spy, journalist, and intermittent genius, Marie Henri Beyle employed more than 200 aliases in the course of his crowded career. His most famous moniker, however, was Stendhal, which he affixed to his greatest work, The Charterhouse of Parma. The author spent a mere seven weeks cranking out this marvel in 1838, setting the fictional equivalent of a land-speed record. To be honest, there are occasional signs of haste, d ..."
"This is the first English translation based on the original text, revealing this lively work as Montesquieu first intended."
Persian Letters von MargaretMauldon 320 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Oup Oxford ISBN-13: 978-0-19-160488-1, ISBN: 0-19-160488-7
"Diderot, Denis, Rameau's Nephew and First Satire, trans. Margaret Mauldon with
an introduction by Nicholas Cronk. Galland, Antoine, Arabian Nights'
Entertainments, ed. Robert L. Mack. Johnson, Samuel, The History ofRasselas,
ed. P. Hardy. Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut, trans. Angela Scholar. Swift,
Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels, ed. Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. Voltaire,
Candide and Other Stories, trans. and ed. Roger Pearson. —— Le ..."
"Denis Diderot. Apostolos Kouidis, 'The Praise ofFolly: Diderot's Model for Le Neveu de Rameau', Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 185 (1980), 237—66. Donal O'Gorman, Diderot the Satirist (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, ..."
"But life with her country doctor husband in the provinces is unutterably boring, and she embarks on love affairs to realize her fantasies. This new translation by Margaret Mauldon perfectly captures Flaubert's distinctive style."
"the modern newspaper now also offered its readers, within its broadsheet-
formatted four pages, a virtually unregulated concoction of anecdotes, trivia,
rumour, and advice. ... As we are told of M. Walter's paper in Bel-Ami, 'La Vie
fraticaise was above all a financial paper' (p. ... The obvious suspect is Arthur
Meyer (1844-1924), the director of Le Gaulois who shared with his fictional
counterpart his race, ..."
"In his brilliant and witty dialogue, Denis Diderot invents a chance encounter in a Paris café between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois figure of his interlocutor. Exuberant and highly entertaining, the dialogue exposes the corruption of society in Diderot's charac ..."
Adolphe(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) von Benjamin Constant, Patrick Coleman, MargaretMauldon Paperback, 86 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955408-9, ISBN: 0-19-955408-0
"Adolphe enjoys all the advantages of a noble birth and an intellectual ability, yet he is haunted by the meaninglessness of life. Thus, he merely seeks distraction in the pursuit of the beautiful, but older and married Ellenore. The young Adolphe, inexperienced in the language of love, falls for her unexpectedly and falters under the burden of an illicit love that is destructive to his public career. Unable to commit himself fully to E ..."
"`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 1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other. Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and ..."
"The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. It was a contemporary bestseller, outraged conservative critics, and launched a passionate debate about the legitimate scope of modern literature. At the centre of the novel stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband Coupeau squanders her earn ..."
"Persian Letters is a classic of European literature by Baron de Montesquieu, the brilliant thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment. Through the astute observations of his two fictional Persian travelers in Europe--Usbek and Rica--Montesquieu asks fundamental questions about human nature, the manners and flirtations of polite society, the structures of power, and the hypocrisy of religion-all in a witty, inventive satire th ..."
"Maupassant's second novel, Bel-Ami (1885) is the story of a ruthlessly ambitious young man (Georges Duroy, christened "Bel-Ami" by his female admirers) making it to the top in fin-de-sihcle Paris. It is a novel about money, sex, and power, set against the background of the politics of the French colonization of North Africa. It explores the dynamics of an urban society uncomfortably close to our own and is a devastating satire of the ..."