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L’Ange     LE VAISSEAU-FANTÔME (CINQ MAI).     LE CHANT DU TSAR IVAN VASSILJEVITCH, DE SON JEUNE GARDE DU CORPS ET DU HARDI MARCHAND KALACHNIKOV.     I.     II.     III.     IV.

La obra poética completa de uno de los escritores más influyentes de la literatura española ** ** La figura de Federico García Lorca abarca, tanto en España como en el exterior, mucho más que su literatura. Su poesía, traducida a infinidad de lenguas, recorre paisajes, hurga en tradiciones...

At a time when the Romantic movement was sweeping the European continent in the early 19th century, among musicians, writers and playwrights, perhaps nobody embodied and personified the Romantic movement quite like Lord Byron, the famous English poet whose life and works are both the stuff of legend....

Honoré de Balzac (/ˈbɔːlzæk, ˈbæl-/;[1] French: [ɔ.nɔ.ʁe d(ə) bal.zak]; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La Comédie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in...

Queen of Deception is the first novel by Danish royal author Trine Villemann. It’s a scandalous tale which focuses on the death bed regrets of the Queen of a small anonymous northern European kingdom, as well as the self destructive escapades of the country’s Crown Prince Franz.Queen of Deception...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Joué pour la première fois à l’Hôtel de Bourgogne, le 13 décembre 1669, Britannicus, tragédie en cinq actes et en vers de Jean Racine (1639-1699), est une réflexion sur l’histoire, la politique, les calculs de cour,...

The Poems of Giovanni Pascoli, Translated in English, next to their Original Italian Text. Giovanni Pascoli (b. at San Mauro Romagna, December 31, 1855, d. at Barga April 6, 1912) was a classical scholar and one of the greatest European poets of his times. The work of Giovanni Pascoli is considered...

notas de rodapé tem na diversidade temática uma das suas características mais fortemente identitárias. Da reinterpretação mitológica patente no poema “édipo antes de édipo?” ao poema de pendor autobiográfico “gelo canadiano”,...

This bilingual anthology of fifty one poems selected from Júdice’s extensive poetic opus covers the years of 1967 to 2005 and contains the original Portuguese poems face à face with their English translations. Although his works have been translated into twelve languages in twenty...

The late poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the summits of European poetry in the twentieth century. Completed in 1922, as were T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses, Duino Elegies ranks with them as a classic of literary Modernism and as an inquiry into the spiritual...

Charles Desnoyer (1806-1858) and Léon Beauvallet (1828-1885) were French playwrights of the mid-nineteenth century. THE KING OF ROME focuses on the Emperor Napoleon's only son, the Duke of Reichstadt, who was held a captive by his maternal grandfather, the Emperor of Austria. Fearing that he would emulate...

Wars do not break out, they are not brokered or declared as is always written. They are brought about by those who desire them.' In June 1914, Europe was enjoying unprecedented peace and prosperity. Little over a month later, the world was at war – and only a handful of people...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Chant de l’Épouse : c’est ainsi que Jean de la Croix (1542-1591), frère carme, désignait le poème dont il composa un commentaire en prose. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Azur (1888) et Proses profanes (1896) inauguraient avec éclat le modernisme, mouvement littéraire qui s’était imposé dans le monde hispanique à la fin du XIXe siècle. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue...