Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia)

Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia) PDF Author: Malama Katulwende
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
Based on real events and written by a young Zambian poet and intellectual, this is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about the life of young people in today's Africa, .

Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia)

Bitterness (An African Novel from Zambia) PDF Author: Malama Katulwende
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569031X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Book Description
Based on real events and written by a young Zambian poet and intellectual, this is one of the most realistic and passionate contemporary novels about the life of young people in today's Africa, .

The Flood (French Classics)

The Flood (French Classics) PDF Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Book Description
From the perspective of the family's patriarch, 70-year-old Louis Roubien, Zola provides the reader with emotionally charged and detailed descriptions of a large family's desperate struggle against the rising flood waters and of the destruction of their farm.

The Gods are Athirst (French Classics)

The Gods are Athirst (French Classics) PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Book Description
Anatole France's novel The Gods are Athirst (Les Dieux ont soif, 1912) tells the story of the painter Evariste Gamelin, who developed into a fanatical Jacobin during the French Revolution at the beginning of the 90's in the 18th century. Filled with a sense of fairness and justice as a young man, he soon became a bloodthirsty judge, sending hundreds of people, including many innocent ones and even close friends, to the guillotine, until he himself became a victim of the historical developments.

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard PDF Author: Anatole France
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569059X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Sylvestre Bonnard, an elderly and highly esteemed scholar, encounters unexpected problems when he embarks upon a search for an ancient ecclesiastical literary document that takes him from Paris to Sicily and then into his own life history. For the sake of justice and love, he ends up committing acts that at best are of doubtful legality. --- With "The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard," Anatole France (1844-1924) wrote a novel that is both clever and wise and in the manner of the great masters of literary style - a book that is full of suspense from beginning to end.

Money

Money PDF Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Book Description
"Judged by the standard of popularity, "Money" may be said to rank among M. Zolas notable achievements . . . This is not surprising, as the book deals with a subject of great interest to every civilized community."--Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

Strait is the Gate

Strait is the Gate PDF Author: André Gide
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569062X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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"Strait is the Gate", first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite", is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- André Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, without at the same time betraying one's values... --- "For Gide was very different from the picture most people had of him. He was the very reverse of an aesthete, and, as a writer, had nothing in common with the doctrine of art for art's sake. He was a man deeply involved in a specific struggle, a specific fight, who never wrote a line which he did not think was of service to the cause he had at heart." (Francois Mauriac)

Germany, a Winter Tale

Germany, a Winter Tale PDF Author: Heinrich Heine
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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Book Description
This historic bilingual edition presents Heine's German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year. The original work, published in 1844, was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated.

Pierre and Luce

Pierre and Luce PDF Author: Romain Rolland
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102

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Paris, 1918: Amidst the cries of fanatic patriots bent on war, a tender relationship slowly develops between two young Parisians, beginning with a first shy encounter and growing into a passionate love that in the end falls victim to the psychological and physical destruction all around them. --- The great French writer Romain Rolland (1866-1944, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1915) wrote his famous tragic love story "Pierre and Luce" at the end of World War I. Its protagonists recall the lovers of classical antiquity as well as those of the Middle Ages.

Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition)

Pelle the Conqueror (Complete Edition) PDF Author: Martin Andersen Nexø
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 159569028X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 822

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Book Description
Complete edition (Parts I to IV): I. Boyhood; II. Apprenticeship; III. The Great Struggle; IV. Daybreak. Martin Andersen Nexo (1869-1954) was born in the slums of Copenhagen into extreme poverty. He was the fourth of eleven children. His father, a stone mason, was an alcoholic and his mother was a daughter of a blacksmith. When he was eight, the family moved to the town of Nexo on the island of Bornholm, whose name he adopted in 1894 as his own. His breakthrough work, the Danish classic Pelle the Conqueror, appeared between 1906 (Part I) and 1910 (Part IV). It tells the story of Pelle, a poor boy, whose life in Part I shares much similarities with Nexø's. "The great charm of the book lies in the fact that the writer knows the poor from within; he has not studied them as an outsider may, but has lived with them and felt with them, at once a participant and a keen-eyed spectator. He is no sentimentalist, and so rich is his imagination that he passes on rapidly from one scene to the next, sketching often in a few pages what another novelist would be content to work out into long chapters or whole volumes. His sympathy is of the widest, and he makes us see tragedies behind the little comedies, and comedies behind the little tragedies, of the seemingly sordid lives of the working people whom he loves." (Otto Jespersen) "Pelle" has conquered the hearts of the reading public of Denmark and of the world. The first part of the book was filmed by Bille August; in 1989 the film won the Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Film.

Socialism, Utopian and Scientific

Socialism, Utopian and Scientific PDF Author: Frederick Engels
Publisher: Mondial
ISBN: 1595690468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106

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Book Description
This volume is a reprint of Engel's masterwork, which was originally published in the late 1880s in 10 languages.