Richard Howard
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Marie-Henri Beyle (January 23, 1783 - March 23, 1842), better known by his penname Stendhal, was a 19th-century French writer. Known for his acute analysis of his characters' psychology, he is considered one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of realism. The Charterhouse of Parma is often cited as an early example of realism, a stark contrast to the Romantic style popular while Stendhal was writing. It is considered by many authors to be a...
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Pub. Date
2000
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The beloved classic story about a young prince's travels through space??—??a profound tale about loneliness and loss, and love and friendship.
A pilot crashes in the Sahara Deser and encounters a strange young boy who calls himself the Little Prince. The Little Prince has traveled there from his home on a lonely, distant asteroid with a single rose. The story that follows is a beautiful and
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Pub. Date
2021.
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193 pages ; 21 cm.
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"During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, involved with him during his lifetime in different capacities - a distant relative, an orderly and a jockey who had an affair with his wife - remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the man and his death"--
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Pub. Date
2015
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Two novels by the pioneering French author and founder of the Nouveau Roman literary movement—with essays by Roland Barthes and others.
In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown city. From these deceptively...
In Jealousy, a man living on a banana plantation obsessively watches everything around him, from the landscape and insects to his wife's every move. In the Labyrinth follows a an increasingly desperate soldier as he carried a mysterious package through an unknown city. From these deceptively...