"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 ..."
"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."
Alaska in Maps(1stEdition) A Thematic Atlas-CD-ROM von Marjorie Hermans, RogerPearson Cd, Veröffentlicht 2000 von Alaska Geographic Society ISBN-13: 978-0-9707555-0-6, ISBN: 0-9707555-0-3
Stendhal(1stEdition) "The Red and the Black" and "The Charterhouse of Parma" (Modern Literatures In Perspective) von RogerPearson 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 ..."
"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 ..."
A Life(1stEdition) The Humble Truth (Oxford World's Classics) von Guy De Maupassant, RogerPearson 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, ..."
Unacknowledged Legislators(1stEdition) The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France von RogerPearson 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(1stEdition) een leven lang op zoek naar vrijheid von RogerPearson 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)."
Mallarmé and Circumstance(1stEdition) The Translation of Silence von RogerPearson 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 ..."
Unfolding Mallarmé(1stEdition) The Development of a Poetic Art von RogerPearson 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(1stEdition) A Study of Voltaire's "Contes Philosophiques" von RogerPearson 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 ..."
Anthropological Glossary(1stEdition) von RogerPearson 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."
"From alternative medicine to murder, F.Paul Wilson's Diagnosis: Terminal reveals terrors surgical, psychological, and institutional. In stark, operating-room light these fourteen writers take scalpel and pen to the body and soul of humanity as it lies stretched out on the stainless-steel page. Rendered in laser-sharp detail, these incisive narrative reveal our needs, our hurts, our desires, and our fears.This unsettling anthology submer ..."