Author: André MauroisPublisher: London : James Barrie
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Climates of Love
Author: André MauroisPublisher: London : James Barrie
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Climates
Author: Andre MauroisPublisher: Other Press, LLC
ISBN: 1590515382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Written in 1928 by French biographer and novelist Andre Maurois, Climates became a best seller in France and all over Europe. The first 100,000 copies printed of its Russian translation sold out the day they appeared in Moscow bookstores. This magnificently written novel about a double conjugal failure is imbued with subtle yet profound psychological insights of a caliber that arguably rivals Tolstoy's. Here Phillipe Marcenat, an erudite yet conventional industrialist from central France, falls madly in love with and marries the beautiful but unreliable Odile despite his family's disapproval. Soon, Phillipe's possessiveness and jealousy drive her away. Brokenhearted, Phillipe then marries the devoted and sincere Isabelle and promptly inflicts on his new wife the very same woes he endured at the hands of Odile. But Isabelle's integrity and determination to save her marriage adds yet another dimension to this extraordinary work on the dynamics and vicissitudes of love.
Climats. The Climates of Love. (Translated by Violet Schiff and Esme Cook.).
Author: André MauroisLove in a Cold Climate
Author: Nancy MitfordLove in a Cold Climate
Author: Nancy MitfordRomantic Climates
Author: Anne CollettPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030162419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This book seeks to uncover how today’s ideas about climate and catastrophe have been formed by the thinking of Romantic poets, novelists and scientists, and how these same ideas might once more be harnessed to assist us in the new climate challenges facing us in the present. The global climate disaster following Mt Tambora’s eruption in 1815 – the ‘Year without a Summer’ – is a starting point from which to reconsider both how the Romantics responded to the changing climates of their day, and to think about how these climatic events shaped the development of Romanticism itself. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, climate is an inescapable aspect of Romantic writing and thinking. Ideologies and experiences of climate inform everything from scientific writing to lyric poetry and novels. The ‘Diodati circle’ that assembled in Geneva in 1816 – Lord Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, John Polidori and John Cam Hobhouse and the gothic novelist MG ‘Monk’ Lewis – is synonymous with the literature of that dreary, uncanny season. Essays in this collection also consider the work of Jane Austen, John Keats and William Wordsworth, along with less well-known figures such as the scientist Luke Howard, and later responses to Romantic climates by John Ruskin and Virginia Woolf.
Milton and the Climates of Reading
Author: Balachandra RajanPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802091059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Scholarly criticism of John Milton's writings has in recent decades been distinguished by a methodological prudence that separates it from other forms of literary scholarship. One critic, however, stands apart from his colleagues and has consistently offered a corrective to this prudence: Balachandra Rajan. In Milton and the Climates of Reading, Elizabeth Sauer undertakes the daunting work of bringing together a selection of Rajan's essays on Milton, some hitherto unpublished, in order to chart trends and changes in Milton scholarship over the last sixty years and to consider future directions in this vital field of inquiry. This collection, which is framed by Sauer's insightful introduction and an eloquent afterword by Joseph Wittreich, demonstrates Rajan's critical range and his ability to adapt to 'new' ideas, always reformulating them in his own characteristic and individual manner. Milton and the Climates of Reading offers timely statements about the ways in which Milton's writings not only addressed their own time, but also speak profoundly and powerfully to ours.
The Spirit of Laws. Translated [by Thomas Nugent] ... With Corrections and Additions Communicated by the Author
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Author: Charles de Secondat baron de MontesquieuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate
Author: Nancy MitfordLove in a Warm Climate
Author: Kelley AitkenPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 9780889842007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
`These are stories to shout about. They are boldly, daringly original without being difficult to understand -- no mean feat. The first-person voice, a common feature of writing these days, is made to do unexpected things, to behave in unexpected ways.'