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  | | La Bête Humaine(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) von Émile Zola, Roger Pearson, 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |