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  | | A Life(Updated) The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) von Roger Pearson, 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 ..." |
 | | Voltaire Almighty(Updated) A Life in Pursuit of Freedom von Roger Pearson Paperback, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN-13: 978-0-7475-7957-1, ISBN: 0-7475-7957-1 "During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the ..." |
 | | The Charterhouse of Parma(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) von Margaret Mauldon, Roger Pearson, Jm Stendhal, Varios Autores Paperback, 560 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283957-2, ISBN: 0-19-283957-8 "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(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) von Emile Zola, Roger Pearson, Thomas Walton, Mile Zola Paperback, 464 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1999 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283963-3, ISBN: 0-19-283963-2 "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 ..." |
 | | The Red and the Black(Updated) A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford World's Classics) von Catherine Slater, Roger Pearson, Catherine Slater Stendhal Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283871-1, ISBN: 0-19-283871-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Beast in Man - Zola, Emile - Paperback(Updated) von Emile Zola, Roger Pearson, Mile Zola Paperback, 424 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1996 von Oxford Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282261-1, ISBN: 0-19-282261-6 ""La bete humaine" (1890), the 17th novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, 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. This new translation captures Zola's fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style, while the introduction and detailed notes place the novel in its social, hist ..." |
 | | Candide and Other Stories(Updated) (Oxford World's Classics) von Roger Pearson Voltaire, Roger Pearson, Francois Voltaire Paperback, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1998 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283426-3, ISBN: 0-19-283426-6 "'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' "Candide", published simultaneously in five European capitals in 1759, became an instant bestseller and is now regarded by many as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. A master story-teller, Voltaire found the philosophical tale the perfect vehicle for his preoccupations with evil, human folly, and intolerance. He combined often wildly entertaining ac ..." |
 | | The Charterhouse of Parma(Updated) (The World's Classics) von Margaret Mauldon, Henri Stendhal, Roger Pearson Paperback, 560 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1997 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-283183-5, ISBN: 0-19-283183-6 "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 ..." |
 | | The Masterpiece(Updated) (The World's Classics) von Thomas Walton, Roger Pearson, Emile Zola, Mile Zola Paperback, 464 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1993 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282906-1, ISBN: 0-19-282906-8 "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, Roger Pearson, 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 ..." |
 | | The Red and the Black(Updated) A Chronicle of the Nineteenth Century (The World's Classics) von Catherine Slater, Roger Pearson Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 1991 von Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-281715-0, ISBN: 0-19-281715-9 "The son of a carpenter, Julian Sorel is inspired by the writings of Napoleon to conquer the heights of society. His initial plan to work his way up through the church is, however, thwarted when he is forced to accept employment as a tutor--and this rash social entrepreneur certainly has not considered the dangers of falling in love. Stendhal's novel is an amusing and piquant study of hypocrisy and free will in post-Napoleonic France." |
 | | Conversations About the End of Time Gould, Steven J; Eco, Umberto; MacLean, Ian and Pearson, Roger(Updated) von Umberto Eco, Jean Delumeau, Jean-Claude Carriere, Stephen Jay Gould, Ian Maclean, Roger Pearson, Gould Eco, Steven J. Gould Paperback, 240 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Penguin Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028514-7, ISBN: 0-14-028514-8 "This discussion of some millennial themes consists of interviews with the principals followed by a certain amount of mutual comment and some final conclusions. Gould does his standard act about the arbitrariness of the millennium and the importance of the growth awareness of deep time--a sense of the vast age of the world and the universe is important to that perspective which might help us behave decently to each other. Carriere, a Chr ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |