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Author : Janet Raitt
Release : 1971
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Madame de Lafayette and "La Princesse de Clèves." by : Janet Raitt
Download or read book Madame de Lafayette and "La Princesse de Clèves." written by Janet Raitt. This book was released on 1971. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jason Lane
Release : 2003
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis General and Madame de Lafayette by : Jason Lane
Download or read book General and Madame de Lafayette written by Jason Lane. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marquise (1759-1807), born Adrienne de Noailles, shared the same controversial beliefs as her husband, supporting and defending him wholeheartedly despite ongoing political persecution - including the Marquis's exile in an Austrian dungeon and her own imprisonment (and near-execution) by French radicals.
Author : Mary MacDermot Crawford
Release : 1907
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Madame de Lafayette and Her Family by : Mary MacDermot Crawford
Download or read book Madame de Lafayette and Her Family written by Mary MacDermot Crawford. This book was released on 1907. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Nelson
Release : 2015-06-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 089/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature by : Brian Nelson
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to French Literature written by Brian Nelson. This book was released on 2015-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging, highly accessible and informative introduction to French literature from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author : Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Release : 2007-11-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Zayde by : Marie-Madeleine Lafayette
Download or read book Zayde written by Marie-Madeleine Lafayette. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the critical juncture between traditional romance and early novelistic realism, Zayde is both the swan song of a literary tradition nearly two thousand years old and a harbinger of the modern psychological novel. Zayde unfolds during the long medieval struggle between Christians and Muslims for control of the Iberian Peninsula; Madame de Lafayette (1634-93) takes the reader on a Mediterranean tour typical of classical and seventeenth-century romances—from Catalonia to Cyprus and back again—with battles, prophecies, and shipwrecks dotting the crisscrossed paths of the book’s noble lovers. But where romance was long and episodic, Zayde possesses a magisterial architecture of suspense. Chaste and faithful heroines and heroes are replaced here by characters who are consumed by jealousy and unable to love happily. And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire. Unavailable in English for more than two centuries, Zayde reemerges here in Nicholas Paige’s accessible and vibrant translation as a worthy representative of a once popular genre and will be welcomed by readers of French literature and students of the European novelistic tradition.
