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Auguste De Villiers De L Isle-Adam
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R895
Discovery Miles 8 950
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Auguste Comte Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
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R863
Discovery Miles 8 630
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Cette uvre (edition relie) fait partie de la serie TREDITION
CLASSICS. La maison d'edition tredition, basee a Hambourg, a publie
dans la serie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de
deux millenaires. Ils etaient pour la plupart epuises ou uniquement
disponible chez les bouquinistes. La serie est destinee a preserver
la litterature et a promouvoir la culture. Avec sa serie TREDITION
CLASSICS, tredition a comme but de mettre a disposition des
milliers de classiques de la litterature mondiale dans differentes
langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
Take one inventive genius indebted to the friend who saved his
life; add an English aristocrat hopelessly consumed with a selfish
and spiritually bankrupt woman; stir together with a Faustian pact
to create the perfect woman--and voila! Tomorrow's Eve is served.
Robert Martin Adams's graceful translation is the first to bring to
English readers this captivating fable of a Thomas Edison-like
inventor and his creation, the radiant and tragic android Hadaly.
Adams's introduction sketches the uncompromising idealism of the
proud but penurious aristocrat Jean Marie Mathias Philippe Auguste,
Count Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, a friend and admired colleague of
Charles Baudelaire, Stephane Mallarme, and Richard Wagner. Villiers
dazzles us with a gallery of electronic wonders while unsettling us
with the implications of his (and our) increasingly mechanized and
mechanical society. A witty and acerbic tale in which human nature,
spiritual values, and scientific possibilities collide, Tomorrow's
Eve retains an enduring freshness and edge.
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Contes Cruels
Auguste De Villiers De L Isle-Adam
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R688
Discovery Miles 6 880
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Axël (Paperback)
Auguste Comte Villiers De L'Isle-Adam
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R657
Discovery Miles 6 570
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Villiers De L'isle Adam was one of the greatest symbolist writers
of the 19th century. His works, in the Romantic style, are often
fantastic in plot and filled with mystery and horror. Originally
published in 1886, 'The Future Eve' is a stunning work, noted for
popularizing the term 'android'. Many of the horror stories of
monsters and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s
and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We
are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
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