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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 ..."

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, ..."

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 ..."

Mallarmé and Circumstance(1st Edition)
The Translation of Silence
von Roger Pearson
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 ..."

Anthropological Glossary(1st Edition)
von Roger Pearson
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."

Unacknowledged Legislators(1st Edition)
The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France
von Roger Pearson
Hardcover, 624 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2016 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-875447-3, ISBN: 0-19-875447-7

"What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behavior? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives--perhaps sacred alternatives--to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean?During the decades immediately preceding the Revolutio ..."

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)."

Unfolding Mallarmé(1st Edition)
The Development of a Poetic Art
von Roger Pearson
Hardcover, 328 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1997 von Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815917-9, ISBN: 0-19-815917-X

"Unfolding Mallarmé provides a coherent account of Mallarmé's poetic developments from his earliest verse to his final masterpiece, "Un coup de Dés." A series of close readings demonstrate the intricate linguistic and formal play to be found in many of his major poems; and, in a detailed analysis of "Un coup de Dés," Pearson explores the "profound calculation" upon which Mallarmé's final, seemingly chaotic masterpiece is based."

The Fables of Reason(1st Edition)
A Study of Voltaire's "Contes Philosophiques"
von Roger Pearson
Hardcover, 280 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1993 von Clarendon Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-815880-6, ISBN: 0-19-815880-7

"Almost three hundred years after his birth in 1694, this is the first comprehensive study of Voltaire's contes philosophiques - the philosophical tales for which he is now best remembered and which include the masterpiece Candide. The Fables of Reason situates each of the twenty-six stories in its historical and intellectual context and offers new readings and approaches in the light of modern critical thinking. It rejects the traditio ..."

Alaska in Maps(1st Edition)
A Thematic Atlas-CD-ROM
von Marjorie Hermans, Roger Pearson
Cd, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Alaska Geographic Society
ISBN-13: 978-0-9707555-0-6, ISBN: 0-9707555-0-3

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 ..."