The Marquise

Author : Heinrich Von Kleist
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782275299

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The Marquise of O– by Heinrich Von Kleist Pdf

A vivid new translation of a timeless classic: Kleist's tense, ambiguous novella about an unexpected pregnancy In a Northern Italian town during the Napoleonic Wars, Julietta, a young widow and mother of impeccable reputation, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. This follows an attack on the town's citadel, in which several Russian soldiers tried to assault her before she was rescued by Count F-, at which point she fell unconscious. Thrown out of her father's house, Julietta publishes an announcement in the local newspaper stating that she is pregnant and would like the father of her child to make himself known so that she can marry him. What follows is an ambiguously comic drama of sexuality and family respectability. One of Kleist's best-loved works, The Marquise of O- is an ingenious and timeless story of the mystery of human desire, and Nicholas Jacobs's new translation captures the full richness of its irony.

Author : Carrie Pagels
Publisher : Pelican Ventures Book Group
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781611165531

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Saving The Marquise's Granddaughter by Carrie Pagels Pdf

In a land fraught with religious strife, they must break the barriers between status and faith to forge a fresh future in a new world...After her Huguenot father is arrested, aristocrat Suzanne Richelieu escapes Versailles. Handsome German peasant, Johan Rousch, risks his life to bring her to the safety of his family’s farm in the Palatinate duchy, but when Suzanne’s brother and the French army arrive with a warning that they plan to burn the area, she and Johan are forced to flee. With no money or options, both become indentured servants in exchange for safe passage to Philadelphia. Suzanne falls gravely ill aboard ship and marries Johan, only to survive with no memory of the wedding—a reality made worse when Johan spots the “priest” who married them working as a surveyor and later in Quaker cleric garb. Are their wedding vows valid? When Suzanne's former fiancé arrives in port, planning to abduct her, Johan must save her again—but can he do so before Suzanne is lost to him forever?

Author : George MacDonald
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547400219

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Malcolm + The Marquise's Secret by George MacDonald Pdf

"Malcolm; or The Fisherman's Lady" tells the story of a poor fisherman Malcolm MacPhail. Young man is raised by his grandfather and discovers that he has noble origins and that he is actually the true son of the Marquise of Lossie. He manages to find employment in the castle and gains the mad laird's trust. Step by step he is entering the new world and introducing the life that was taken from him in the first place. The Marquis' Secret completes the story of Malcolm, a young fisherman set to become new Marquise of Lossie. Malcolm decides to hide his true identity, so he can help his sister who got herself under some very bad influences in London. He reveals the truth about his origins to her and goes on to take his position as a marquis. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence". MacDonald has been credited with founding the "kailyard school" of Scottish writing.

Author : Frances Aymar Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076052020

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The Marquise's Millions by Frances Aymar Mathews Pdf

Author : Charles Perrault,Francois-Timoleon De Choisy,Choisy (abbé de),Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier,Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon
Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0873529324

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The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville by Charles Perrault,Francois-Timoleon De Choisy,Choisy (abbé de),Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier,Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon Pdf

The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her--or his--true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross-dress. Will they live happily ever after? In the introduction, Joan DeJean presents the fascinating puzzle of authorship of this lighthearted gender-bending tale written in the late seventeenth century in France. Was it François-Timoléon de Choisy, an abbot who was happiest in drag? Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier, an outspoken defender of women's writing of her day? Or Charles Perrault, L'Héritier's uncle and the famous author of such fairy tales as "Sleeping Beauty"? DeJean argues that the tale was a collaboration of all three and discusses the permeable borderline between masculinity and femininity, transvestism, and tolerance--then and now.

Author : Claude Mauriac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015010450354

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The Marquise Went Out at Five by Claude Mauriac Pdf

With "La marquise went out at 5 am" Claude Mauriac wanted to challenge Paul Valéry. With La marquise went out at 5 o'clock, Claude Mauriac added a third volume to the series inaugurated in 1957 by Tous les femmes sont fatales, followed two years later by the Dinner in town (Prix Médicis 1959).

Author : James Frederick Skinner Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Bishops
ISBN : MINN:31951002295682O

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Ecclesiastical Chronicle for Scotland by James Frederick Skinner Gordon Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609771065

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The Marquise De Ganges by Alexandre Dumas Pdf

She was a woman of about twenty-five or twenty-six, who, unlike other women, evidently desired to appear older than she was. She was dressed in black; her hair hung in plaits; her neck, arms, and feet were bare; the belt at her waist was clasped by a large garnet which threw out sombre fires. In her hand she held a wand, and she was raised on a sort of platform which stood for the tripod of the ancients, and from which came acrid and penetrating fumes; she was, moreover, fairly handsome, although her features were common, the eyes only excepted, and these, by some trick of the toilet, no doubt, looked inordinately large, and, like the garnet in her belt, emitted strange lights.

Author : The Marquis de Sade,Will McMorran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : French literature
ISBN : 9780198848288

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The Marquise de Gange by The Marquis de Sade,Will McMorran Pdf

'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!' It was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse, Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbé and the Chevalier, want Euphrasie for themselves. Published in English for the first time, The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026593167

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The House of Argyll and the Collateral Branches of the Clan Campbell, from the Year 420 to the Present Time by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Augustus Sala,Edmund Yates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : English periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015024479969

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Temple Bar by George Augustus Sala,Edmund Yates Pdf

Author : Maria M. Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : English fiction
ISBN : PRNC:32101072913062

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The Sun-maid by Maria M. Grant Pdf

Author : Rachilde
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603292559

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Monsieur Venus by Rachilde Pdf

When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

Author : Marie Sophie Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Swedish fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HWPVJR

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Birth and Education by Marie Sophie Schwartz Pdf

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112114884486

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The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas Pdf