Emile: 1072 books

Der erste Band der erfolgreichen Rougon-Macquard-Reihe, der Saga einer französischen Familie unter dem Zweiten Kaiserreich. Hier lernen wir zunächst Adelaide kennen, ein halb wahnsinniges, der wilden Sinnenlust ergebenes Weib, das von einem im Wahnsinn verstorbenen Vater, dem Krautgärtner Fouque...

An authoritative biography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the greatest medieval English poet, this volume is a remarkable portrait of the poet and the events that shaped him. Legouis examines Chaucer’s life, the relationship of his work to his times—it also studies the sources and composition of Chaucer’s masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.

This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies...

The camp was pitched in the centre of a fertile plain at a mile or so from Mulhausen, in the direction of the Rhine. In the twilight of a sultry day in August, under the dull sky, across which heavy clouds were drifting, the rows of shelter-tents could be seen stretching out amid a broad expanse of...

We first meet Nana in the Variety Theatre, where the captivating eighteen-year-old is appearing in the lead role of a musical—even though she can't act or sing. "Nana has something that makes up for everything else," the theater owner explains, and he's right. Instead of booing her off the stage, the...

Extrait du livre:  PENDANT le rude hiver de 1860, l'Oise gela, de grandes neiges couvrirent les plaines de la basse Picardie ; et il en vint surtout une bourrasque du nord-est, qui ensevelit presque Beaumont, le jour de la Noël. La neige, s'étant mise à tomber dès...

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Originally titled "Contes à Ninon" (1864) and "Nouveaux Contes à Ninon" (1874). Table of Contents: Stories For Ninon: To Ninon Simplice, The Ball-Program, She Who Loves Me, The Love-Fairy, Blood, The Thieves And The Ass, Sister-Of-The-Poor, The Adventures Of Big Sidoine And Little...

In a quiet rural village in late 19th-century France, an eleven-year-old boy is found dead in his room, sexually molested and strangled by an unknown assailant. The shocked townsfolk erupt in outrage: Who could have committed this horrible crime? Rumors immediately begin to fly and suspicions shift...

"Abbé Mouret's Transgression" (La Faute de l'Abbé Mouret), written in 1874, is perhaps the most powerful and poetic of all Zola's tales; it is that in which fantasy bears the greatest part, and in which "naturalisme" for a while disappears. The opening chapters describe a profligate and almost pagan...

Therese Raquin is one of the most famous realistic novels of Zola, and is a tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes of Parisian society of the nineteenth century. Located in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a drab haberdashery shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel...

One of the most important, though controversial, French novelists of the late nineteenth century, and founder of the Realist movement, was Émile Zola (1840-1902). He was the most important example of the literary genre of naturalism, and an integral part of developing theatrical naturalism. "The Rush...