Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425075266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
L'Assommoir (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425075266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425075266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
L'Assommoir (EasyRead Large Edition)
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425064086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Published in 1877, the seventh novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola, L'Assommoir is about the suffering of the Parisian working-class. It revolves around the character of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress who yearns to have a happy family. Zola depicts the most dreadful scenes of poverty, hardship, and alcoholism faced by the working poor in Paris.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425064086
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Published in 1877, the seventh novel in the Les Rougon-Macquart series by Emile Zola, L'Assommoir is about the suffering of the Parisian working-class. It revolves around the character of Gervaise Macquart, a laundress who yearns to have a happy family. Zola depicts the most dreadful scenes of poverty, hardship, and alcoholism faced by the working poor in Paris.
L'Assommoir Volume 1 of 2 (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425093507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1425093507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
L'Assommoir Volume 2 of 2 (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142509452X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 142509452X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Reviews (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) (Volume 1 of 2)
Author:
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427068895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427068895
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Bel-Ami
Author: Guy de Maupassant
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140443150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"We fancied each other and that's that. Now it's over." Georges Duroy (the protagonist of
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0140443150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
"We fancied each other and that's that. Now it's over." Georges Duroy (the protagonist of
The Painted Girls
Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101603798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101603798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
A heartrending, gripping novel about two sisters in Belle Époque Paris and the young woman forever immortalized as muse for Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. 1878 Paris. Following their father’s sudden death, the van Goethem sisters find their lives upended. Without his wages, and with the small amount their laundress mother earns disappearing into the absinthe bottle, eviction from their lodgings seems imminent. With few options for work, Marie is dispatched to the Paris Opéra, where for a scant seventeen francs a week, she will be trained to enter the famous ballet. Her older sister, Antoinette, finds work as an extra in a stage adaptation of Émile Zola’s naturalist masterpiece L’Assommoir. Marie throws herself into dance and is soon modeling in the studio of Edgar Degas, where her image will forever be immortalized as Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. There she meets a wealthy male patron of the ballet, but might the assistance he offers come with strings attached? Meanwhile Antoinette, derailed by her love for the dangerous Émile Abadie, must choose between honest labor and the more profitable avenues open to a young woman of the Parisian demimonde. Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of “civilized society.” In the end, each will come to realize that her salvation, if not survival, lies with the other.
Blood Meridian
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307762521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307762521
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
Author: Peter Boxall
Publisher: Cassell
ISBN: 1844037193
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1277
Book Description
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.
Publisher: Cassell
ISBN: 1844037193
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1277
Book Description
Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.
After the Reich
Author: Giles MacDonogh
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465006205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany was literally starving to death. An astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era. A shocking account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich draws on an array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period to offer a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465006205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The shocking history of the brutal occupation of Germany after the Second World War When the Third Reich collapsed in 1945, Germany was a nation in tatters, in many places literally flattened by bombs. In the ensuing occupation, hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Hundreds of thousands of Germans and German-speakers died in the course of brutal deportations from Eastern Europe. By the end of the year, denied access to any foreign aid, Germany was literally starving to death. An astonishing 2.5 million ordinary Germans were killed in the post-Reich era. A shocking account of a massive and brutal military occupation, After the Reich draws on an array of contemporary first-person accounts of the period to offer a bold reframing of the history of World War II and its aftermath.