"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 ..."
"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 ..."
La Bête Humaine(Reprint) (Oxford World's Classics) von Émile Zola, RogerPearson, 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, 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, ..."
"'The Ringmaster' has sent a group of robotic clowns to the Queen's garden party to kidnap her. Jack and Wanda have to stop the clowns and save Her Majesty ... but will they end up with custard pie on their faces?"
"Jack and Wanda are hired to babysit a baby Wolmump from the Cetus constellation. It seems like an easy job, but the baby Wolmump has other ideas."
Modern Literatures in Perspective Ser. Stendhal : The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma von RogerPearson 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-89492-6, ISBN: 1-317-89492-8
"remains that the pursuit of happiness would prove impossible in a universe that
was irremediably divided. And one can also say that it did indeed prove
impossible, that Stendhal's own lived experience ended in failure. ... De l'
influence de l'habitude sur lafaculté de penser [Of the Influence ofHahit on the
Faculty of Thought], ed. ... soon flounders as he experiences the first onset of raw
vanity; whereas souls like that of Fabric ..."
Nott Farfromu von RogerPearson Paperback, 80 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Tate Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-63122-646-5, ISBN: 1-63122-646-0
""How long have they been transformed Mago?" "Just for a few hours Lambro." "Then there is still time?" Lambro said relief evident in his voice. "Yes Lambro, they should be fine." "How much time have they got Mago?" "They should be alright for at least four or five more hours Lambro?" "Four or five hours, Mago you know that won't be nearly enough time! You do know what will happen to them if that powder wears off with them still in these ..."
Modern Literatures in Perspective Ser. Stendhal : The Red and the Black and the Charterhouse of Parma von RogerPearson 256 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2014 von Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-317-89491-9, ISBN: 1-317-89491-X
"Even if the term 'madness' drops from the author's lips initially in the guise of '
quoted speech', of a borrowed signifier to which he himself does not subscribe,
he none the less ends up recuperating the word, gradually adopting it as his own
by investing it with new values, by seducing it into serving his own particular ends
. Henceforth, when he uses it, the notion of madness implies both a way of being
which is special to his pa ..."
Critical Lives Stephane Mallarme von RogerPearson 224 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von Reaktion Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86189-727-5, ISBN: 1-86189-727-8
"... electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior
permission of the publishers. Printed and bound in Great Britain by cpi Antony
Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Pearson, Roger Stephane Mallarme. – (Critical lives) 1. Mallarme, Stephane,
1842–1898. 2. Poets, French 19th century Biography. I. Title II. Series 841.8-dc22
isbn 978 1 86189 659 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 Co ..."
"At the age of fifty Stephane Mallarme (1842-98) spoke of his published work as very precise reference points on my mind's journey. In "Stephane Mallarme", Roger Pearson charts that journey for the first time, blending a biographical account of the poet's life with a detailed analysis of his evolving poetic theory and practice. A poet on this earth must be uniquely a poet', he declared at the age of twenty-two, and he duly lived a poet's ..."
Voltaire Almighty A Life in Pursuit of Freedom von RogerPearson Ebook, 480 Seiten, Veröffentlicht 2010 von A&C Black ISBN-13: 978-1-4088-2080-3, ISBN: 1-4088-2080-3
"His family nicknamed him Zozo: he later called himself Voltaire. While he
believed in God Almighty, he none the less considered that there was still work to
be done. 'God created man free,' he wrote at the age of seventythree: 'and that is
what I have become.'1 This is the story of his extraordinary life, the story of a
search for freedom. Zozo was probably a bastard. Like Candide, the hero of his
most famous work. Officially littl ..."