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Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe

Daniel Bellingradt,Paul Nelles,Jeroen Salman
Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe Book PDF

Author : Daniel Bellingradt,Paul Nelles,Jeroen Salman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319533667

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Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe by Daniel Bellingradt,Paul Nelles,Jeroen Salman Pdf

This book presents and explores a challenging new approach in book history. It offers a coherent volume of thirteen chapters in the field of early modern book history covering a wide range of topics and it is written by renowned scholars in the field. The rationale and content of this volume will revitalize the theoretical and methodological debate in book history. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the field of early modern book history as well as in a range of other disciplines. It offers book historians an innovative methodological approach on the life cycle of books in and outside Europe. It is also highly relevant for social-economic and cultural historians because of the focus on the commercial, legal, spatial, material and social aspects of book culture. Scholars that are interested in the history of science, ideas and news will find several chapters dedicated to the production, circulation and consumption of knowledge and news media.

The Girl who Played with Fire

Stieg Larsson
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Author : Stieg Larsson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Blomkvist, Mikael (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780307476159

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The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson Pdf

When the reporters to a sex-trafficking exposé are murdered and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander is targeted as the killer, Mikael Blomkvist, the publisher of the exposé, investigates to clear Lisbeth's name.

History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe

Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe Book PDF

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027295538

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History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe by Marcel Cornis-Pope,John Neubauer Pdf

National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans. History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, which covers the last two hundred years, reconceptualizes these literary traditions by de-emphasizing the national myths and by highlighting analogies and points of contact, as well as hybrid and marginal phenomena that traditional national histories have ignored or deliberately suppressed. The four volumes of the History configure the literatures from five angles: (1) key political events, (2) literary periods and genres, (3) cities and regions, (4) literary institutions, and (5) real and imaginary figures. The first volume, which includes the first two of these dimensions, is a collaborative effort of more than fifty contributors from Eastern and Western Europe, the US, and Canada.The four volumes of the History comprise the first volume in the new subseries on Literary Cultures.

The Europeans

Orlando Figes
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Author : Orlando Figes
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627792158

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The Europeans by Orlando Figes Pdf

From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture. The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age of cultural globalization—an epoch when mass communications and high-speed rail travel brought Europe together, overcoming the barriers of nationalism and facilitating the development of a truly European canon of artistic, musical, and literary works. By 1900, the same books were being read across the continent, the same paintings reproduced, the same music played in homes and heard in concert halls, the same operas performed in all the major theatres. Drawing from a wealth of documents, letters, and other archival materials, acclaimed historian Orlando Figes examines the interplay of money and art that made this unification possible. At the center of the book is a poignant love triangle: the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev; the Spanish prima donna Pauline Viardot, with whom Turgenev had a long and intimate relationship; and her husband Louis Viardot, an art critic, theater manager, and republican activist. Together, Turgenev and the Viardots acted as a kind of European cultural exchange—they either knew or crossed paths with Delacroix, Berlioz, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt, the Schumanns, Hugo, Flaubert, Dickens, and Dostoyevsky, among many other towering figures. As Figes observes, nearly all of civilization’s great advances have come during periods of heightened cosmopolitanism—when people, ideas, and artistic creations circulate freely between nations. Vivid and insightful, The Europeans shows how such cosmopolitan ferment shaped artistic traditions that came to dominate world culture.

Heidi

Johanna Spyri
Heidi Book PDF

Author : Johanna Spyri
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781467787024

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Heidi by Johanna Spyri Pdf

When Heidi's parents pass away, her aunt takes her in, but she soon sends Heidi to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first, Heidi's grandfather seems gruff, but over time he becomes fond of her. Heidi grows to love the mountains and spends many hours with the goats and Peter, the goatherd, until she is sent to back to the city to be a companion to Clara, an invalid, and receive an education. Heidi learns that though the people in the city have more money, the people in the country lead richer lives. This classic Swiss children's book by Johanna Spyri was published in two parts in 1880 and 1881. This unabridged version comes from a 1915 edition, translated from the original German by Elisabeth P. Stork and illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.

A History of European Literature

Walter Cohen
A History of European Literature Book PDF

Author : Walter Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191078910

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A History of European Literature by Walter Cohen Pdf

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.

DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series)

James Joyce
DUBLINERS Modern Classics Series Book PDF

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806455

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DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "DUBLINERS (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by James Joyce and they present a penetrating analysis of the stagnation and paralysis of Dublin society. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changing self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity. James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's Odyssey are paralleled in an array of contrasting literary styles, perhaps most prominent among these the stream of consciousness technique he utilized. Table of Contents: The Sisters An Encounter Araby Eveline After the Race Two Gallants The Boarding House A Little Cloud Counterparts Clay A Painful Case Ivy Day in the Committee Room A Mother Grace The Dead

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Book PDF

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063290648

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Pdf

“Far more than a conventional novel. It is a meditation on life, on the erotic, on the nature of men and women and love . . . full of telling details, truths large and small, to which just about every reader will respond.” — People In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera tells the story of two couples, a young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing, and one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel "the unbearable lightness of being" not only as the consequence of our pristine actions but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. This magnificent novel is a story of passion and politics, infidelity and ideas, and encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, illuminating all aspects of human existence.

The Scarlet Pimpernel Illustrated

Baroness Orczy
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Author : Baroness Orczy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798711698692

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The Scarlet Pimpernel Illustrated by Baroness Orczy Pdf

"he Scarlet Pimpernel is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title enjoyed a long run in London, having opened in Nottingham in 1903.The novel is set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution. The title is the nom de guerre of its hero and protagonist, a chivalrous Englishman who rescues aristocrats before they are sent to the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life: apparently nothing more than a wealthy fop, but in reality a formidable swordsman and a quick-thinking escape artist. The band of gentlemen who assist him are the only ones who know of his secret identity. He is known by his symbol, a simple flower, the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). Marguerite Blakeney, his French wife, does not share his secret. She is approached by the new French envoy to England, Chauvelin, with a threat to her brother's life if she does not aid in the search for the Pimpernel. She aids him, and then discovers that the Pimpernel is also very dear to her. She sails to France to stop the envoy."

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature

Patricia García
The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth Century European Literature Book PDF

Author : Patricia García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030837761

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The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature by Patricia García Pdf

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction. Focusing on the literary city and literary representations of urban experience throughout the nineteenth century, the works discussed incorporate supernatural occurrences in a European city and the supernatural of these stories stems from and belongs to the city. The argument is structured around three primary themes. “Architectures”, “Encounters” and “Rhythms” make reference to three axes of city life: material space, human encounters, and movement. This thematic approach highlights cultural continuities and thus supports the use of the label of “urban fantastic” within and across the European traditions studied here.

War & War

László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
War War Book PDF

Author : László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811220118

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War & War by László Krasznahorkai,George Szirtes Pdf

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize A novel of awesome beauty and power by the Hungarian master, Laszla Krasznahorkai. Winner of a 2005 PEN Translation Fund Award. War and War, Laszla Krasznahorkai's second novel in English from New Directions, begins at a point of danger: on a dark train platform Korim is on the verge of being attacked by thuggish teenagers and robbed; and from here, we are carried along by the insistent voice of this nervous clerk. Desperate, at times almost mad, but also keenly empathic, Korim has discovered in a small Hungarian town's archives an antique manuscript of startling beauty: it narrates the epic tale of brothers-in-arms struggling to return home from a disastrous war. Korim is determined to do away with himself, but before he can commit suicide, he feels he must escape to New York with the precious manuscript and commit it to eternity by typing it all on the world-wide web. Following Korim with obsessive realism through the streets of New York (from his landing in a Bowery flophouse to his moving far uptown with a mad interpreter), War and War relates his encounters with a fascinating range of humanity, a world torn between viciousness and mysterious beauty. Following the eight chapters of War and War is a short "prequel acting as a sequel," "Isaiah," which brings us to a dark bar, years before in Hungary, where Korim rants against the world and threatens suicide. Written like nothing else (turning single sentences into chapters), War and War affirms W. G. Sebald's comment that Krasznahorkai's prose "far surpasses all the lesser concerns of contemporary writing."

Digressions in European Literature

A. Grohmann,C. Wells
Digressions in European Literature Book PDF

Author : A. Grohmann,C. Wells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230292529

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Digressions in European Literature by A. Grohmann,C. Wells Pdf

With studies of, amongst others, Miguel de Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Charles Baudelaire and Henry James, this landmark collection of essays is a unique and wide-ranging exploration and celebration of the many forms of digression in major works by fifteen of the finest European writers from the early modern period to the present day.

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera Book PDF

Author : Gaston Leroux
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782322271771

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The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Pdf

The story of a man named Erik, an eccentric, physically deformed genius who terrorizes the Opera Garnier in Paris. He builds his home beneath it and takes the love of his life, a beautiful soprano, under his wing.

Metamorphosis and Other Stories

Franz Kafka
Metamorphosis and Other Stories Book PDF

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141900025

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Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka Pdf

This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he himself thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation; Meditation, a collection of his earlier studies; The Judgement, written in a single night of frenzied creativity; The Stoker, the first chapter of a novel set in America and a fascinating occasional piece, and The Aeroplanes at Brescia, Kafka's eyewitness account of an air display in 1909. Together, these stories reveal the breadth of Kafka's literary vision and the extraordinary imaginative depth of his thought.

“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture

V. Glajar,D. Radulescu
Gypsies in European Literature and Culture Book PDF

Author : V. Glajar,D. Radulescu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230611634

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“Gypsies” in European Literature and Culture by V. Glajar,D. Radulescu Pdf

This book traces representations of "Gypsies" that have become prevalent in the European imagination and culture and influenced the perceptions of Roma in Eastern and Western European societies.