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Cousin Bette (Paperback)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Sylvia Raphael; Introduction by David Bellos
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Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel,
and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s
and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of
violent jealousy and sexual passion.
Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic
France struggling with massive industrial and economic change,
Balzac's characters span many classes of society, from impoverished
workers and wealthy courtesans to successful businessmen and
official dignitaries.
The tragic outcome of the novel is relieved by occasional flashes
of ironic comedy and the emergence of a younger generation which
has come to terms with the new political and econimic climate.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Corinne - or Italy (Paperback)
Madame De Stael; Edited by Sylvia Raphael; Introduction by John Isbell
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R285
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`Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.' Corinne, or
Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald,
Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the
landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy,
Oswald immediately falls under Corinne's magical spell as she is
crowned a national genius at the Captitol. Yet, on returning to
England, he succumbs to convention and honours his late father's
wish by marrying the dutiful English girl, Lucile, despite having
learned that Corinne is Lucile's Italian half-sister. Corinne dies
of a broken heart and Lord Nelvil is left with a seared conscience.
Stael weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and
allegory into her romance, and its publication saw her order of
exile renewed by Napoleon. Indeed, the novel stands as the birth of
modern nationalism, and introduces to French usage the word
`nationalitie'. It is also one of the first works to put a woman's
creativity centre stage. Sylvia Raphael's new translation preserves
the natural character of the French original and the edition is
complemented by notes and and introduction which serve to set an
extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and
political contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Indiana (Paperback)
George Sand; Translated by Sylvia Raphael; Edited by Naomi Schor
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R230
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The first novel that George Sand wrote without a collaborator, this
is not only a vivid romance, but also an impassioned plea for
change in the inequitable French marriage laws of the time, and for
a new view of women. It tells the story of a beautiful and innocent
young woman, married at sixteen to a much older man. She falls in
love with her handsome, frivolous neighbor, but discovers too late
that his love is quite different from her own. This new
translation, the first since 1900, does full justice to the passion
and conviction of Sand's writing, and the introduction fully
explores the response to Sand in her own time as well as
contemporary feminist treatments.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and a homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. Staël weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, whose publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon. This new translation is complemented by notes and an introduction which serve to set an extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political contexts.
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Eugenie Grandet (Paperback)
Honore De Balzac; Translated by Sylvia Raphael; Edited by Christopher Prendergast
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'Who is going to marry Eugenie Grandet?'
This is the question that fills the minds of the inhabitants of
Saumur, the setting for Eugenie Grandet (1833), one of the earliest
and most famous novels in Balzac's Comedie humaine. The Grandet
household, oppressed by the exacting miserliness of Grandet
himself, is jerked violently out of routine by the sudden arrival
of Eugenie's cousin Charles, recently orphaned and penniless.
Eugenie's emotional awakening, stimulated by her love for her
cousin, brings her into direct conflict with her father, whose
cunning and financial success are matched against her determination
to rebel.
Eugenie's moving story is set against the backdrop of provincial
oppression, the vicissitudes of the wine trade, and the workings of
the financial system in the aftermath of the French Revolution. It
is both a poignant portrayal of private life and a vigorous
fictional document of its age.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more."
This collection includes "El Verdugo," "Domestic Peace," "A Study in Feminine Psychology," "An Incident in the Reign of Terror," "The Conscript," "The Red Inn," "The Purse," "La Grande Bretèche," "A Tragedy by the Sea," "The Atheist’s Mass," "Facino Cane," and "Pierre Grassou."
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