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Author : John Daniel Barry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Women circus performers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1GTA
Author : John D. Barry
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9356576998
This Book "Mademoiselle Blanche: A Novel" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : John D. Barry
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0483917419
Excerpt from Mademoiselle Blanche: A Novel At the Cirque Pan'sz'en There 's Made moiselle Blanche, the acrobat. They say she 's a marvel, monsieur, and beautiful, the most beautiful woman in Paris. She dives from the top of the building backwards hundreds of feet. 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 : André Gide
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0252028449
Andre Gide's lifelong fascination with the conventions of society led naturally to a strong interest in France's judicial system. At the age of sixty Gide published Judge Not, a collection of writings detailing his own experiences with the law as well as his thoughts on truth, justice, and judgment.Gide's obsession with crime and punishment was not just a morbid hobby; rather, it struck at the heart of his themes as a writer. In the literary tradition of Dostoyevsky and Conrad, Gide frequently used criminals as central characters to explore human nature and the individual's place in society.In the first essay in Judge Not, "A Memoir of the Assize Court," Gide writes about his experience as a juror in several trials, including that of an arsonist (Gide actively sought jury duty, so great was his interest in legal matters). In "The Redureau Case" and "The Confined Woman of Poitiers" Gide analyzes two famous crimes of his day, an inexplicable slaughter by Marcel Redureau, a docile fifteen-year-old vineyard laborer who violently murdered his employer's family, and the respected Monnier family's confinement of their daughter, Blanche. Both cases fascinated Gide--elements of each would appear in his later fiction--and he looks closely at the facts of each as they came out in court. In addition, in "News Items" Gide analyzes the way newspapers present crime narratives, drawing from the hundreds of press clippings he collected throughout his life.Andr Gide (1869-1951) wrote The Counterfeiters; several brief works of fiction including Strait Is the Gate and The Immoralist; a number of plays; and several works of literary criticism. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1947 and in 1950 was made an honorary corresponding member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.Benjamin Ivry has translated from the French Vanished Splendors: The Memoirs of Balthus, Raoul Dufy's My Doctor, Wine, and Jules Verne's Magellania, among other books. He is the author of the poetry collection Paradise for the Portuguese Queen as well as the biographies Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel: A Life.
Author : John Barry
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503099067
"Andre!" "Yes, monsieur." The little waiter, with anxiety in his smooth, blond face, hurried to the table. "Bring me the Soir." Andre shot away, and presently returned, paper in hand. "What is there good at the theatres, Andre?" Andre wiped his hands in his soiled apron, and looked thoughtful. "There's the Folies Bergeres, monsieur. Dumont sings to-night." "Oh, she tires me. Her voice is cracked." "There's Madame Judic at the Varietes," Andre suggested, tentatively. "I saw her in the last piece." Andre scratched his head, and stared at the figure at the table. "Monsieur likes the Cirque, does he not?"
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1973-09-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141907956
The stories in this volume demonstrate Dostoyevsky's genius for fusing caricature, irony and the grotesque to create a powerful dark humour. The Gambler is a breathtaking portrayal of an intense and futile obsession. Based on Dostoyevsky's own experience of financial desperation and the compulsive desire to win money, it focuses on the characters that take their places at the gaming tables of 'Roulettenburg': the outspoken, aristocratic 'Grandmamma', the mercenary Mademoiselle Blanche, the cool, mysterious Polina and Alex, the author's self-portrait; a man gripped by exhilaration and hopelessness. Bobok is a blackly comic satire in which a desolate writer becomes drawn into the conversations of the dead, and A Nasty Story is a humorous look at the disparity between a man's exaggerated ideal of himself and the sad reality.
Author : Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387096958
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Gary M. Hamburg
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817923662
Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885&–1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905&–7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified—and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
Author : Ludovic Halévy
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Paris (France)
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKD1Y
1894. With introduction by Brander Matthews. A collection of short stories by the French author of the charming novel The Abbe Constantin. Contents: Only a Waltz; The Dancing-Master; The Circus Charger; Blacky; The Most Beautiful Woman in Paris; The Story of a Ball-Dress; The Insurgent; The Chinese Ambassador; and In the Express. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Author : Svetlana Evdokimova
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666945300
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Gambler is one of the most profound literary works to treat the phenomenon of gambling with a remarkable depth of psychological analysis and a wide-ranging cultural and philosophical exploration of obsessive behavior, from addictive gambling to erotic passion. This novel delves into the cultural, psychological, and philosophical issues surrounding games of chance such as temporality, freedom, rebellion, choice, uncertainty, determinism, and creativity. This is the first book in English dedicated to The Gambler. This volume considers the phenomenon of gambling from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, focusing not only on medical and psychological concepts of gambling as pathology, but also on the broader cultural, philosophical, religious, and aesthetic aspects of the problem. What triggers fascination with risk-taking and various aleatory activities? What are the relations between gambling, play, and creativity? Can gambling be seen as a form of social or existential rebellion and protest or even a quest for freedom? Scholars from a variety of fields, including psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, literary studies, and musicology, have contributed to this volume and analyzed Dostoevsky’s view of gambling as a fundamental problem of human existence, with implications in the realms of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics.
Author : Edouard Roditi
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081120670X
Edouard Roditi's The Delights of Turkey is a confection that reminds us that short fiction need not be only a relentless probing of everyday anguish. Here is a score of witty and ingenious stories, set for the most part in Asia Minor, where the centuries-long mingling of Turks and Armenians, Greeks and Jews has evolved a vibrant culture rich in diversity. The tales are often bawdy or fanciful in the manner of the Thousand and One Nights, while others are more poignantly humorous in style, as we meet pasha, princess, and peasant, become privy to the intrigues of the Ottoman harem, or follow the merchant caravans on their journeys east. The collection itself is arranged thematically in four parts. "A City Built on Seven Hills" sketches a timeless Istanbul. "The Chronicles of Bok Köy" tell of an Anatolian village and the legendary prowess of its young men, the redoubtable Achmet Hodja most especially. In "Orient Express" baffled European meets mysterious Levantine. The last section, "The Eternal and Ubiquitous City" returns once more to Istanbul, this time in its contemporary guise.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079893628
Author : David Brailovsky
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781583487587
A Covenant in Shanghai is about survival and alienation. We follow Daniel and his three friends as they grow from childhood to adolescence and to early manhood. We share their tensions, frustrations, and their anxieties, as they struggle to survive by overcoming the temptations that this sybaritic and decadent city offers at every corner. It is about alienation, of not accepting and of not being accepted by an ancient and proud culture. The four friends do not feel at home in the East, nor are they comfortable in the West. They have to learn how to live and survive in this limbo. The four boys of different backgrounds: American, English, French and Russian, accentuate the kaleidoscopic nature of a fascinating, yet often ominous and tragic lifestyle. This is also the story of the survival of a majestic and resilient city that suffers with dignity the humiliations of shortages, the ravages of epidemics, the conflict of political ideologies, and refuses to be conquered by desecrations of wars. This multi-ethnic, multicultured metropolis is neither Western nor Chinese. Like its population it is alien to both. It is a tragic hybrid grafted on the map of China.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112110962625
Author : Jean Joubert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2357800011
Julien arrive à Montpellier à la fin des années 1950, pour y achever ses études, cette ville tour à tour solaire et nocturne, et qui est comme la double image des femmes qui la hantent, Il rencontre Blanche Montagnac, dite mademoiselle Blanche, enseignante dans un collège voisin et demeure prisonnière des traditions. Une passion secrète, à la fois pudique et impudique, les unis.