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Nihilist Girl
Häftad, 2001
234 kr
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First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically changed by Alexander I's …
Monsieur Venus
Av Rachilde, Melanie Hawthorne m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
299 kr
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When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule’s suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the …
Lettres De Mistriss Henley Publiées Par Son Amie
Av Isabelle de Charrière, Joan Hinde Stewart
Häftad, 1993
359 kr
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Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie was composed as a response to Samuel de Constant's misogynist novel, The Sentimental Husband (1783). Charrière presents six letters …
Letters of Mistress Henley Published by Her Friend
Häftad, 1993
359 kr
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Considered by many scholars to be among the most brilliant novels written in French during the eighteenth century, Lettres de Mistriss Henley publiées par son amie was composed as a response to Samuel de Constant's misogynist novel, The Sentimental Husband (1783). Charrière presents six letters …
Lettres D'Une Peruvienne
Av Francoise De Graffigny, Joan DeJean
Häftad, 1993
299 kr
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One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Péruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation in 1747. In the novel the Inca princess Zilia is kidnapped by Spanish conquerors, captured by the …
Letters from a Peruvian Woman
Häftad, 1993
299 kr
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One of the most popular works of the eighteenth century, Lettres d'une Péruvienne appeared in more than 130 editions, reprints, and translations during the hundred years following its publi cation in 1747. In the novel the Inca princess Zilia is kidnapped by Spanish conquerors, captured by the …
Ourika
Av Claire De Duras, Joan DeJean
Häftad, 1995
236 kr
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Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is rescued from slavery and raised by an aristocratic French family during the French Revolution.
Ourika
Häftad, 1995
218 kr
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John Fowles presents a remarkable translation of a nineteenth-century work that provided the seed for his acclaimed novel The French Lieutenant's Woman and that will astonish and haunt modern readers.Based on a true story, Claire de Duras's Ourika relates the experiences of a Senegalese girl who is …
Adelneit Von Rastenberg
Av Eleonore Thon, Karin A. Wurst
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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When the knight Adelbert leaves his beloved Adelheit for the Crusades, her father arranges for her to marry the rich and powerful Robert von Rastenberg, whom she does not love. Several years later, while strolling through the forest, Adelheit encounters her former lover, who has returned to …
Adelneit Von Rastenberg
Häftad, 1996
332 kr
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When the knight Adelbert leaves his beloved Adelheit for the Crusades, her father arranges for her to marry the rich and powerful Robert von Rastenberg, whom she does not love. Several years later, while strolling through the forest, Adelheit encounters her former lover, who has returned to …
El Encaje Roto Y Otro Cuentos
Av Emilia Pardo Bazán, Joyce Tolliver
Häftad, 1996
326 kr
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Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns. Noted for narrative complexity, stylistic variety, and feminist themes, Pardo Bazán's stories explore many aspects of the relationships between men …
Torn Lace and Other Stories
Häftad, 1996
364 kr
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Although written a century ago, the sixteen stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán collected in this volume are strikingly relevant to contemporary concerns. Noted for narrative complexity, stylistic variety, and feminist themes, Pardo Bazán's stories explore many aspects of the relationships between men …
Histoire D'Ernestine
Av Marie Riccoboni, Joan Hinde Stewart
Häftad, 1998
332 kr
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Set in prerevolutionary France, Histoire d'Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches on a portrait when the marquis de Clémengis, elegant and handsome, enters the studio. …
Story of Ernestine
Av Marie Riccoboni, Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
Häftad, 1998
332 kr
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Set in prerevolutionary France, The Story of Ernestine tells of the love between an innocent young woman and an aristocrat. Ernestine, German-born and orphaned, is an apprentice painter putting the finishing touches on a portrait when the marquis de Clémengis, elegant and handsome, enters the …
Opgang
Av Dovid Bergelson, Joseph Sherman
Häftad, 1999
429 kr
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Bergelson’s 1920 novella describes thecomplex Jewish life of Russia and Ukrainethrough the turbulent period leading up to theOctober Revolution of 1917.
Descent
Häftad, 1999
429 kr
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Bergelson’s 1920 novella describes thecomplex Jewish life of Russia and Ukrainethrough the turbulent period leading up to theOctober Revolution of 1917.
Nigilistka
Av Sofya Kovalevskaya, Natasha Kolchevska
Häftad, 2001
254 kr
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First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Нигилистка is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically changed by Alexander I's …
La Signorina E Altri Racconti
Av Anna Banti, Carol Lazzaro-Weiss
Häftad, 2001
395 kr
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Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death in 1985. The five tales in "La signorina" e altri racconti display her talent across many genres—fiction, science …
Signorina and Other Stories
Av Anna Banti
Häftad, 2001
364 kr
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Greatly influenced by writers ranging from Dickens and Proust to Woolf and Colette, Anna Banti was a prominent figure on the Italian literary scene from the 1940s until her death in 1985. The five tales in "The Signorina" and Other Stories display her talent across many genres—fiction, science …
Rencontres Essentielles
Av Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, Cheryl Toman
Häftad, 2002
313 kr
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Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Its story of love, infertility, a failed marriage, and adultery looks at both interpersonal connections andnational politics from a feminist perspective.
Essential Encounters
Häftad, 2002
313 kr
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Published in 1969, Essential Encounters is the first novel by a woman of sub-Saharan francophone Africa. Thérèse Kuoh-Moukoury, of Cameroon, wrote it "to inspire other women to write." Its story of love, infertility, a failed marriage, and adultery looks at both interpersonal connections and …
Anthology of Modern Urdu Poetry
Av M. A. Habib, M. A. R. Habib
Häftad, 2003
364 kr
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Currently spoken by almost 250 million people in Pakistan and India and the second most widely spoken language in Britain, Urdu has one of the richest literatures of all south Asian languages. The modern Urdu poets presented in this book offer a fascinating range of forms and styles that grew out …
Mademoiselle Giraud, Ma Femme
Av Adolphe Belot, Christopher Rivers
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the right mix of salaciousness and propriety. (Under the initials A. B. he dispensed entirely with …
Mademoiselle Giraud, My Wife
Häftad, 2002
429 kr
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Adolphe Belot was the envy of his contemporaries Émile Zola and Gustave Flaubert: his books, unlike theirs, were best-sellers. He specialized in popular fiction that provided readers with just the right mix of salaciousness and propriety. (Under the initials A. B. he dispensed entirely with …
Claire D'Albe
Av Sophie Cottin, Margaret Cohen
Häftad, 2002
364 kr
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Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire and Frédéric gradually develops into a …
Claire D'Albe
Häftad, 2002
364 kr
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Both Claire and her husband, M. d'Albe, are virtuous and upstanding, and Frédéric, her husband's nineteen-year-old adopted son and factory assistant, is honest and noble-hearted. But in the beautiful and secluded Loire Valley, the friendship between Claire and Frédéric gradually develops into a …
Dammerung
Av Elsa Bernstein, Susanne Kord
Häftad, 2003
395 kr
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Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Fontane, Henrik Ibsen, and Thomas Mann. Her plays, written under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, are noteworthy for their …
Twilight
Häftad, 2003
364 kr
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Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Fontane, Henrik Ibsen, and Thomas Mann. Her plays, written under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, are noteworthy for their …
Monsieur Venus
Av Rachilde, Melanie Hawthorne
Häftad, 2004
299 kr
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In this key text from the French decadent movement, an aristocratic young woman becomes enamored of a young man who makes artificial flowers for a living.
Histoire De La Marquise
Av François-Timoléon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
359 kr
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The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her—or his—true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross-dress. Will they live happily …
