Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
La Horda
La Horda
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibez
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
La Horda
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539417385
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
La Horda
Esther Happy
Author: Honoré de Balzac
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
"Esther Happy" is one of the four parts of the serial novel, "The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans (also known as, "A Harlot High and Low,") a novel by French novelist Honoré de Balzac. Lucien de Rubempré and Carlos Herrera (Vautrin) have made a pact, in which Lucien will arrive at success in Paris if he agrees to follow Vautrin's instructions blindly. Esther van Gobseck throws a wrench into Vautrin's best-laid plans, however, because Lucien falls in love with her and she with him. One night, however, the incredibly rich banker Baron de Nucingen spots Esther and falls deeply in love with her. When Vautrin realizes that Nucingen's obsession is with Esther, he decides to use her power as a tool to help advance Lucien by extrapolating the maximum amount of money from the Baron as possible. Something that will result in a series of tragic results...
The Dead Command
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ibiza (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ibiza (Spain)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Democracy, Nationalism and Multiculturalism
Author: Ramón Máiz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276966
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book provides an up to date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134276966
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This book provides an up to date review of subnational and multicultural issues in Western multinational states.
The Shadow of the Cathedral
Author: Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465534628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465534628
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
French Opera at the Fin de Siècle
Author: Steven Huebner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199719921
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199719921
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This is the first book-length study of the rich operatic repertory written and performed in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. Steven Huebner gives an accessible and colorful account of such operatic favorites as Manon and Werther by Massenet, Louise by Charpentier, and lesser-known gems such as Chabrier's Le Roi malgré lui and Chausson's Le Roi Arthus.
The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815-1930
Author: Susan Rutherford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185167X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052185167X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
An examination of the female opera singer during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Opera Acts
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107004268
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107004268
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.
Prince of Europe
Author: Philip Mansel
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780753818558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he met. He stayed with Madame du Barry, dined with Frederick the Great and travelled to the Crimea with Catherine the Great. But Ligne was more than a frivolous charmer. He participated in and recorded some of the most important events and movements of his day: the Enlightenment; the struggle for mastery in Germany; the decline of the Ottoman Empire; the birth of German nationalism; and the wars to liberate Europe from Napoleon. He had surprisingly radical views, believing for example in property rights for women, legal rights for Jews and the redistribution of wealth. He was also a highly respected writer and his books on gardens, his letters from the Crimea and his epigrams are considered minor classics of French literature.