Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel. Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style.
Pierre (Esprios Classics)
Author: Herman Melville
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel. Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style.
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Pierre; or, The Ambiguities is the seventh book by American writer Herman Melville, first published in New York in 1852. The novel, which uses many conventions of Gothic fiction, develops the psychological, sexual, and family tensions between Pierre Glendinning; his widowed mother; Glendinning Stanley, his cousin; Lucy Tartan, his fiancée; and Isabel Banford, who is revealed to be his half-sister. According to scholar Henry A. Murray, in writing Pierre Melville "purposed to write his spiritual autobiography in the form of a novel" rather than to experiment and incidentally work some personal experience into the novel. Published after the lukewarm reaction to Moby-Dick, Pierre was a critical and financial disaster. Reviewers universally condemned its morals and its style.
Pierre and Jean (Esprios Classics)
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781715749507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 -1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements (outcomes). Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his masterpiece.
Publisher: Blurb
ISBN: 9781715749507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (1850 -1893) was a 19th-century French author, remembered as a master of the short story form, and as a representative of the Naturalist school. Maupassant was a protégé of Gustave Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, seemingly effortless dénouements (outcomes). Many are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s, describing the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught up in events beyond their control, are permanently changed by their experiences. He wrote 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. His first published story, "Boule de Suif" ("The Dumpling", 1880), is often considered his masterpiece.
Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror (Esprios Classics)
Author: Richard Linthicum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359859984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359859984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pierre Grassou (Esprios Classics)
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pierre Grassou is an 1839 short story by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Pierre Grassou de Fougères is a mediocre and unoriginal painter who lives off painting imitative works commissioned by an old swindler and art-dealer named Elias Magus. Grassou paints works in the style of Titian, Rembrandt, and other famous artists. Magus passes these off as genuine and sells them for a large profit to members of the Petite bourgeoisie who are incapable of appreciating good art. Monsieur Vervelle, a prosperous bottle-dealer obsessed with art, is introduced to Grassou by Magus, who introduces the painter as a grand master.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pierre Grassou is an 1839 short story by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie privee section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. Pierre Grassou de Fougères is a mediocre and unoriginal painter who lives off painting imitative works commissioned by an old swindler and art-dealer named Elias Magus. Grassou paints works in the style of Titian, Rembrandt, and other famous artists. Magus passes these off as genuine and sells them for a large profit to members of the Petite bourgeoisie who are incapable of appreciating good art. Monsieur Vervelle, a prosperous bottle-dealer obsessed with art, is introduced to Grassou by Magus, who introduces the painter as a grand master.
Captain Fracasse (Esprios Classics)
Author: Theophile Gautier
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359578624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359578624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
My Life as an Author (Esprios Classics)
Author: Martin Farquhar Tupper
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716149193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1716149193
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Fruitfulness (Esprios Classics)
Author: Emile Zola
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678036080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678036080
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Doctor Pascal (Esprios Classics)
Author: Emile Zola
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678036064
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1678036064
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Mediaeval Socialism (Esprios Classics)
Author: Bede Jarrett
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387619047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"The title of this book may not unnaturally provoke suspicion. After all, howsoever we define it, socialism is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions. It is an economic theory which has been evolved under pressure of circumstances which are admittedly of no very long standing. How then, it may be asked, is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of old time and those which have grown out of present-day conditions of life? Surely whatever analogy may be drawn between them must be based on likenesses which cannot be more than superficial."First published in 1913. Includes chapters on Social Conditions, the Communists, the Schoolmen, the Lawyers, the Social Reformers and the Theory of Alms-Giving.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387619047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
"The title of this book may not unnaturally provoke suspicion. After all, howsoever we define it, socialism is a modern thing, and dependent almost wholly on modern conditions. It is an economic theory which has been evolved under pressure of circumstances which are admittedly of no very long standing. How then, it may be asked, is it possible to find any real correspondence between theories of old time and those which have grown out of present-day conditions of life? Surely whatever analogy may be drawn between them must be based on likenesses which cannot be more than superficial."First published in 1913. Includes chapters on Social Conditions, the Communists, the Schoolmen, the Lawyers, the Social Reformers and the Theory of Alms-Giving.
In the Brooding Wild (Esprios Classics)
Author: Ridgwell Cullum
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794763775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794763775
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description