A Century Of French Fiction Classic Reprint

Author : Benjamin W. Wells
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Page : 410 pages
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Release : 2015-07-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1331113059

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A Century of French Fiction (Classic Reprint) by Benjamin W. Wells Pdf

Excerpt from A Century of French Fiction This book is a study of novels, not of novelists. It seeks to show the development of what has come to be the chief genre in the most artistic of European literatures. The limitations that this purpose involves are obvious. Biography belongs here only in so far as heredity or environment influence those qualities in an author by which he in turn influences the development of fiction. With some novelists, such as George Sand, these are very significant; with others, such as Daudet, they are hardly significant at all. The poems, dramas, or essays of novelists are usually passed in silence, though they may be, as with Sainte-Beuve, the chief title to literary distinction. And in regard to the novels themselves, this book is less concerned with what is done than with how it is done; it seeks, not to retell a story, but to convey an artistic impression, and in the space that it accords to the 115 novelists and 688 novels or short stories that it names it is less influenced by an author's popularity than by the excellence or novelty of his technic, his style, or his ideas of the functions, ethical, social, philosophical, or artistic, of the novel. Many writers are little read who have been studied by those who are read much. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Mme. Sophie Cornu,William Beer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
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Release : 1898
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015033432744

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List of French Fiction by Mme. Sophie Cornu,William Beer Pdf

Author : Madame Mary Duclaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
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Release : 2015-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1331841828

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Twentieth Century French Writers by Madame Mary Duclaux Pdf

Excerpt from Twentieth Century French Writers: Reviews and Reminiscences I meant this book to be an image, a reflection, of the Twentieth Century in France, so far as it is shown in literature during the first fourteen years of its course. But my book is small, the subject is vast: an actual, living movement, a growing generation, is a difficult thing to copy - it will not keep still! And it branches out so wide: there are so many French writers of the younger sort! I am overcome with remorse when I think of the gifted beings whom I have left out! I remember that child whom Saint Augustine saw, trying to gather the sea into his little shell; like him, I see the waters stretching inimitably: I have only brought away a sample. Yet those who taste it may have some faint idea, if not of the breadth and the numerousness of the literary movement in France, at least of its savour and its quality. Given the limits of my little volume, I was compelled to make a choice; and there is always some injustice in a selection. Why should some be taken and others left? Why accept Rostand and reject Bataille? Why give Madame de Noailles and say nothing of Fernand Gregh? Why gather up Boylesve and Andre Gide, neglecting Estaunie, and Sageret, and Paul Adam? If I have Marie Leneru, why not Sacha Guitry? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : A -G -P BRUGIERE BARON DE. BARANTE
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 278 pages
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Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0243054564

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A Tableau of French Literature During the Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint) by A -G -P BRUGIERE BARON DE. BARANTE Pdf

Excerpt from A Tableau of French Literature During the Eighteenth Century Without doubt, we mav apply here the words of an illustrious academician, spoken the following year, in the bosom of that assembly in which he was about to take his place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Henry Hudson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 336 pages
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Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330980174

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A Short History of French Literature (Classic Reprint) by William Henry Hudson Pdf

Excerpt from A Short History of French Literature Mr. Hudson's death on the 12th of August 1918, at Droitwich, came as a shock; but not altogether to those by whom he was best known as an unanticipated blow. In 1913 he had had a disabling attack of rheumatic fever, and he was well aware his heart was weak. Indeed, he once remarked to one who some eight years ago remonstrated with him for overtaxing his strength that he had good reason to suppose his span of life would be short, and that he had much that he wished to write. This is the nemesis of the critical profession. Before one can criticise, one must have read and studied; and when at fifty "the ship is cheered," one may perhaps hear the evening bell. Not that Mr. Hudson's energy was in any degree abated. His last book on Nineteenth Century Literature was as ripe and easy as anything he had produced, a thing let fall from copiousness and a mind stored to the full. Learning is a word that in this country has come to bear a very particular connotation. One must know more about some one subject, however minute or subdivided, than others do; or one must labour in the mine and bring to the surface what has not been properly accessible before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 502 pages
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Release : 2015-07-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1330759214

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History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century (Classic Reprint) by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet Pdf

Excerpt from History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century Let us not consider as mere chance, gentlemen, a state of mind, which is easily explained. The seventeenth century is the logical sequence, the natural production of the sixteenth. In reference to philosophy and thought in general, the human mind always proceeds in this manner: it makes progress by antithesis and reaction, and resembles the pendulum, which unceasingly oscillates from right to left and from left to right. But the pendulum moves in a fixed space, and the value of one of its oscillations is constantly compensated by that of the other, while the action and reaction of the human mind do not entirely destroy each other, some quantity remains, and these quantities, added together, make up the sum of its progress. At the first glance, man seems to us to undo to the same extent what he has already done; but if we extend the field of our observation, we shall be convinced of the real and gradual advancement of human nature. Whether this advancement is for good or evil, is a different question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gustave Masson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0265323231

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Select Tales by Modern French Writers by Gustave Masson Pdf

Excerpt from Select Tales By Modern French Writers: Edited With English Notes And A Chronological Table Illustrating The History Of French Fiction The spirit of rebellion against authority would naturally manifest itself strongly in a society where class-distinctions stood out so clearly marked, and where, between the feudal barons on the one side and the immense crowd of vassals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Willard Huntington Wright
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 448 pages
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Release : 2017-01-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1334922187

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The Great Modern French Stories by Willard Huntington Wright Pdf

Excerpt from The Great Modern French Stories: A Chronological Anthology Mme. De Stael, however, had much to do with the liberal izing Of French letters. On the formal and aesthetic side Of literature her in uence was nugatory, but she reacted in a salutary manner against the cramping restrictions Of the purely classic viewpoint. She brought new, if borrowed, ideas to the novel; she broadened its outlook; and she awakened in the younger generation of writers a spirit Of freedom and intrepidity. It was the fecundity of her thought which enriched all the serious fiction writing which fol lowed her. Her Delphine and Corinne, though scarcely read today, played very much the same part in the devel Opment Of French fiction that the works of Richter and Goethe played in the development Of German fiction. The novel became a medium not for esthetic form but for esthetic ideas. In her the literature Of her country donned the garb of cosmopolitanism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : Charles Woodward Hutson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 356 pages
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Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0267347731

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A History of French Literature (Classic Reprint) by Charles Woodward Hutson Pdf

Excerpt from A History of French Literature The French monarchy and the French people really have their historical beginning with the crowning at Rheims of Hugues Capet, Count of Paris, as King of the French, in the year 987. The Franks of the West were then formally sepa rated from the Franks of the East, who remained an integral part of the German Kingdom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : M. S. Van De Velde
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0483571881

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French Fiction of To-Day, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by M. S. Van De Velde Pdf

Excerpt from French Fiction of to-Day, Vol. 1 of 2 I? U'y a plus de Pyrenees! What was true in politics is equally true now in literature. Frontiers no longer exist between the talent and genius of one nationality and that of another; they flow free and unchecked into distant chan nels, which they fertilise; there are no longer prohibitive barriers of protection to overthrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Kathleen T. Butler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0656135298

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A History of French Literature, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by Kathleen T. Butler Pdf

Excerpt from A History of French Literature, Vol. 2 of 2 The romantic drama I. Influences Affecting its Development 2. The Theory of the Romantic Drama 3. The Romantic Dramatists: Victor Hugo Dumas the Elder - Alfred de Vigny - Alfred. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Lytton Strachey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0331937611

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Landmarks in French Literature (Classic Reprint) by Lytton Strachey Pdf

Excerpt from Landmarks in French Literature Some of these qualities are already distinctly visible in the earliest French works which have come down to us - the Chansons de Geste. These poems consist of several groups or cycles of narrative verse, cast in the epic mould. It is probable that they first came into existence in the eleventh and twelfth centuries; and they continued to be produced in various forms of repetition, rearrangement, and at last degradation, throughout the Middle Ages. Originally they were not written, but recited. Their authors were the wandering minstrels, who found, in the crowds collected together at the great fairs and places of pilgrimage of those early days, an audience for long narratives of romance and adventure drawn from the Latin chronicles and the monkish traditions of a still more remote past. The earliest, the most famous, and the finest of these poems is the Chanson de Roland, which recounts the mythical incidents of a battle between Charlemagne, with all his peerage', and the hosts of the Saracens. Apart from some touches of the marvellous - such as the two hundred years of Charlemagne and the intervention of angels - the whole atmosphere of the work is that of eleventh-century France, with its aristocratic society, its barbaric vigour, its brutality, and its high sentiments of piety and honour. The beauty of the poem lies in the grand simplicity of its style. Without a trace of the delicacy and variety of a Homer, farther still from the con summate literary power of a Virgil or a Dante, the unknown minstrel who composed the Chanson de Roland possessed nevertheless a very real gift of art. He worked on a large scale with a bold confidence. Discarding absolutely the aids of ornament and the rhetorical elaboration of words, he has succeeded in evoking with an extraordinary, naked vividness the scenes of strife and heroism which he describes. At his best - ih the lines of farewell between Roland and Oliver, and the well-known account of Roland's death -he rises to a restrained and severe pathos which is truly sublime. This great work - bleak, bare, gaunt, majestic - stands out, to the readers of to-day, like some huge mass of ancient granite on the far horizon of the literature of France. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Geoffroy Atkinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1528376137

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The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 (Classic Reprint) by Geoffroy Atkinson Pdf

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature Before 1700 Although I had originally intended to make a complete study of the history of the Extraordinary Voyage as a type of novel in French Literature, I have been obliged, by the extent of the subject, to limit my study in the present volume to the period preceding the year 1700. It is my purpose to continue in a second volume the investigation of the Extraordinary Voyages published since that date. It is only fitting to say that without the suggestion of Professor Lanson the present work never would have been begun, and that, without his continued interest, it certam never would have been completed. If in its accomplishment any credit whatever is to be accorded, this will have been due in large measure to the inspira tion received from Professor Lanson. If on the other hand, errors of statement or of judgment are discovered in it, they may be set down as exclusively my own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Geoffroy Atkinson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0332504409

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The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature from 1700 to 1720 (Classic Reprint) by Geoffroy Atkinson Pdf

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature From 1700 to 1720 In The Extraordinary Voyage in French Literature before 1700, I have acknowledged my indebtedness to M. Danson for his original suggestion of this field of research and for his continued interest while I was preparing that study for publication. It is a pleasure to acknowledge here the more recent inspiration and advice received from M. Lanson in the summer of 1920. His suggestions for this second book, at a time when I was reading in Paris and had access to the original documents, have been invaluable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : G. Eugène Fasnacht
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0331740168

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Select Specimens of the Great French Writers in the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries by G. Eugène Fasnacht Pdf

Excerpt from Select Specimens Of The Great French Writers In The 17th, 18th, And 19th Centuries: With Literary Appreciations By The Most Eminent French Critics And A Historical Sketch Of French Literature At the same time, I have attempted to do full justice to the leading men of the 17th century; nor have the guiding stars of the intellectual movement of our age been slighted at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.