Roger Pearson Editor > Compare Discount Book Prices & Save up to 90%

The Masterpiece(Reprint)
(Oxford World's Classics)
von Émile Zola, Thomas Walton, Roger Pearson, Mile Zola
Paperback, 400 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953691-7, ISBN: 0-19-953691-0

"The Masterpiece is the tragic story of Claude Lantier, an ambitious and talented young artist from the provinces who has come to conquer Paris and is conquered by the flaws in his own genius. While his boyhood friend Pierre Sandoz becomes a successful novelist, Claude's originality is mocked at the Salon and turns gradually into a doomed obsession with one great canvas. Life - in the form of his model and wife Christine and their deform ..."

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 ..."

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 ..."

Horticultural Flora of South-Eastern Australia Volume 5
von Roger Spencer, Su Pearson
Paperback, 638 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-86840-832-3, ISBN: 0-86840-832-8

"This is the fifth and final volume of the Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. The series gives gardeners, horticulturalists, landscape designers, park managers, students and botanists the means to identify garden plants, and provides detailed information on their botany and cultivation. Like the previous four volumes, Volume 5 is written to be accessible to non-specialists with the key aim of facilitating the identification ..."

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, ..."

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 ..."

Merton & Buddhism(1st Edition)
(The Fons Vitae Thomas Merton series)
von Bonny Bowman Thurston, Roger Lipsey, James A. Wiseman, Paul M. Pearson, Thomas Merton, Jonathan Montaldo, Roger Corless, Gray Henry, Roger I. Corless
Paperback, 271 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2007 von Fons Vitae
ISBN-13: 978-1-887752-84-8, ISBN: 1-887752-84-6

Voltaire Almighty
von Roger Pearson
480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2008 von Bloomsbury Publishing Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-59691-877-1, ISBN: 1-59691-877-2

"Enter François-Marie Arouet, once known as Zozo. Voltaire had remained in touch with the baron de Breteuil over the intervening years, seeking his help or influence on a number of occasions. The baron for his part was a great admirer of the young man's work—though quite evidently not of his eligibility as a husband. Indeed that thought would never have occurred to him. As to his daughter, she was not unlike Monsieur de Voltaire: sh ..."

Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Candide and Other Stories
von Roger Pearson, Francois Voltaire
Veröffentlicht 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-151770-9, ISBN: 0-19-151770-4

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)."

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 ..."

Voltaire Almighty
A Life in Pursuit of Freedom
von Roger Pearson
Hardcover, 384 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2005 von Bloomsbury Usa
ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-630-4, ISBN: 1-58234-630-5

"With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs, and tireless battles against his critics, priests and king, Roger Pearsonâs Voltaire Almighty brings the father of Enlightenment to vivid life. Voltaire Almighty provides a lively look at the life and thought of one of the major forces behind European Enlightenment. A rebel from start to finish (1694-1778), Voltaire was an ailing and unwanted bastard child who refu ..."

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 ..."

Candide and Other Stories
(Oxford World's Classics)
von Roger Pearson Voltaire, Roger Pearson, Francois Voltaire
Paperback, 352 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2006 von Oxford University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280726-7, ISBN: 0-19-280726-9

"'If this is the best of all possible worlds, then what must the others be like?' Young Candide is tossed on a hilarious tide of misfortune, experiencing the full horror and injustice of this 'best of all possible worlds' - the Old and the New - before finally accepting that his old philosophy tutor Dr Pangloss has got it all wrong. There are no grounds for his daft theory of Optimism. Yet life goes on. We must cultivate our garden, ..."

Germinal(Reprint)
(Penguin Classics)
von Émile Zola, Roger Pearson, Ã‰Mile Zola
Paperback, 592 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Penguin Classics
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-044742-2, ISBN: 0-14-044742-3

"The thirteenth novel in Émile Zola’s great Rougon-Macquart sequence, Germinal expresses outrage at the exploitation of the many by the few, but also shows humanity’s capacity for compassion and hope. Etienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a dangerous temper. Forced to take a back-breaking job at Le Voreux mine when he cannot get other work, he discovers that his fellow miners are ill, ..."

Hail Mary
The Drew Pearson Story
von Drew Pearson, Frank -. Editors Luksa, Roger -. Forreword Staubach
Hardcover, 296 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2004 von Rogers Publishing And Consulting, Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-9727488-2-7, ISBN: 0-9727488-2-2

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