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  | | Candide and Other Stories(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) von Roger Pearson Voltaire, Roger Voltaire/ Pearson, Francois Voltaire Paperback, 352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953561-3, ISBN: 0-19-953561-2 "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 ..." |
 | | The Red and the Black(1st Edition) A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) von Roger Pearson, Catherine Slater, Catherine Slater Stendhal Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953925-3, ISBN: 0-19-953925-1 "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 ..." |
 | | The Charterhouse of Parma(1st Edition) (Oxford World's Classics) von Margaret Mauldon, Roger Pearson, Stendhal Stendhal Paperback, 560 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2009 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955534-5, ISBN: 0-19-955534-6 "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, Roger Pearson 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, ..." |
 | | Voltaire de almachtige(1st Edition) een leven lang op zoek naar vrijheid von Roger Pearson Paperback, 510 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von De Bezige Bij ISBN-13: 978-90-234-1889-4, ISBN: 90-234-1889-1 "Biografie van de Franse filosoof (1694-1778)." |
 | | Shockley on Eugenics and Race(1st Edition) The Application of Science to the Solution of Human Problems von William B. Shockley, Roger Pearson, Arthur R. Jensen, Charles Conant Josey Paperback, 292 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1992 von Scott Townsend Pub ISBN-13: 978-1-878465-03-0, ISBN: 1-878465-03-1 "Pearson has collected William Shockley's writings about his theories of hereditary human intelligence and his belief that the less intelligent were overproducing and the more intelligent, underproducing. Shockley urged that studies be made of heredity, intellectual and demographic trends in order to ensure high intelligence levels." |
 | | Stendhal(1st Edition) "The Red and the Black" and "The Charterhouse of Parma" (Modern Literatures In Perspective) von Roger Pearson Paperback, 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1994 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-582-09616-5, ISBN: 0-582-09616-2 "Both critic and writer, Stendhal has now become established as one of realism's founding fathers. Dr Pearson's book maps out, for the first time, the critical reception of Stendhal's two most widely read novels, The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma since their publication in 1830 and 1839 respectively. In part one he provides generous samples of the most important nineteenth-century responses to the novels, almost all of ..." |