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Montaigne

Montaigne

Hugo Friedrich

Friedrich considers the Montaigne of the Essays on of the first "moralists" in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce as he saw it.
On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

On The Aesthetic Education Of Man

Friedrich Schiller

-Friedrich Schiller Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. - Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schiller Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller - - Friedrich Schiller
Victor Hugo and His Times

Victor Hugo and His Times

Alfred Barbou

This book was approved by Victor Hugo and his wife, was translated into several languages, and is generally considered to be the best life of Victor Hugo.
The Works of Victor Hugo

The Works of Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

This collection includes: The History of a Crime The Hunchback of Notre Dame Les Miserables The Man Who Laughs The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Napoleon the Little
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition

Victor Hugo

Inhis 1859 preface, Hugo had indicated that The Legendof tke Ages was to be completed by two other poems: The End of Satan, which was to be the " dénouement" of the Legend, and God, which was to be its "crown." Both poems were ...
The Poet and the Countess: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's ...

The Poet and the Countess: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's ...

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The English translation of the correspondence between the turn-of-the-century Austrian poet and librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Countess Ottonie Degenfeld.
A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

A Victor Hugo Encyclopedia

John Andrew Frey

This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his life and literature. The volume begins with a biography that places Hugo within the context of 19th-century France.
Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Contributions of ...

Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Contributions of ...

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Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich Lösel, whom we are honoring with this book on the occasion of his retirement from active service at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg in September 2011. Presenting Friedrich Lösel and his scientific ...
Les misérables

Les misérables

Victor Hugo

This expansive French tale of injustice and social unrest is widely considered to be writer Victor Hugo's masterpiece.
Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel

Victor Brombert

Analyzes the major themes and motifs in Hugo's novels, describes his poetic and moral vision, and assesses his accomplishments as a writer
Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

Victor Hugo in Exile: From Historical Representations to ...

William VanderWolk

This book, examining these two works and the nonfictional Napoleon le petit, argues that through such texts Hugo can be seen as an important historian of his time, a polemicist and prophet whose version of past events and vision of the ...
Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Christopher Middleton. to send it. Perhaps this book, with its content a question mark, will not be to your taste; perhaps its form will be. A man who has seriously and devotedly concerned himself with the German ...
A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

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New essays by leading scholars re-examining major aspects of the work of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the great Austrian poet and dramatist.
Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Hugo's Works: William Shakespeare

Victor Hugo

Volume Nineteen of The Works of Victor Hugo features "William Shakespeare."
Victor Hugo: A Biography

Victor Hugo: A Biography

Graham Robb

Victor Hugo was the most important writer of the nineteenth century in France: leader of the Romantic movement; revolutionary playwright; poet; epic novelist; author of the last universally accessible masterpieces in the European tradition, ...
The Essential Victor Hugo

The Essential Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Famous scenes from the novels Notre-Dame, Les Mis--eacute--;rables, and The Toilers of the Sea are included, as well as excerpts from his intimate diaries, poems of love and loss, and scathing denunciations of the political establishment.
Live Television Drama, 1946-1951

Live Television Drama, 1946-1951

William Hawes

... dentist who still hated Hugo (Hume Cronyn), the fellow who stole his girl. Bi› plots his revenge when Hugo has a toothache during a visit to. Marc Daniels directed Fay Bainter in “Night Must Fall,” for Ford Theater, on CBS-TV, ¡9 December ...
Advanced Linear Algebra

Advanced Linear Algebra

Hugo Woerdeman

... by Mihály Bakonyi and Hugo J. Woerdeman. Indeed, we have 1·0+2·6+3·9+4·1 +5·1+6·2+7·8+8·8+9·9+10·8 = rem(341|11) = 0. Check that the 10-digit ISBN number 3034806388 has a correct check digit. Exercise 1.5.23 A not so secure way ...
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The affair began probably in 1844 with a woman named Leonie Biard (nee d' Aunet)70 who was married to an academic and fashionable painter of about the same age as Hugo. She had moved into the luxurious residence of the wealthy ...
Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen

Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen

Friedrich August Schmidt

Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight. 1821 erschienenes Prachlwer'k. m!t kolorlrten Kupfern nach Zeichnungen von Schütz, deutsch und von John Blake ins Engl, überseht; „Die Lahn» und Maingegen. den" ( Wiesbaden I82l).
The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

This collection reflects those extremes, including both the sparkling social comedy of "the difficult man" Hans Karl, so sensitive that he cannot choose between the two women he loves, and the haunting fictional letter to Francis Bacon in ...
Thayer's Life of Beethoven

Thayer's Life of Beethoven

Alexander Wheelock Thayer

Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Elliot Forbes, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, Henry Edward Krehbiel ... Carl Friedrich, 806, 809, 816 Herbst (horn player), 970 Herbst, Kurt, 193 Herder (poet), 568 Hermann, F. R. (poet), 568 Herrosee, Karl Fr. , ...
George Eliot and Europe

George Eliot and Europe

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Nonetheless, romantic is as romantic does. The character's name, of course, is Sir Hugo. 1 Morris Greenhut and Edgar W. Hirshberg have examined Lewes's articles n Hugo as indications of his critical practice: Morris Greenhut, 'George Henry ...
My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo ...

Juliette Drouet

The anonymous Mémoires de Madame Ludovica (Douglas Siler, ed., Flaubert et Louise Pradier: Le Texte intégral des ... The most complete information on Laure Krafft is to be found in Jean Savant, La Vie sentimentale de Victor Hugo, ...
Christoph Friedrich von Ammon nach Leben, Ansichten und ...

Christoph Friedrich von Ammon nach Leben, Ansichten und ...

Christoph Friedrich von AMMON

Christoph Friedrich von AMMON, Ernst Heinrich PFEILSCHMIDT. Christoph Friedrich von Ammon - nach Leben , Ansichten und Wirken . Ein Lichtbild aus der evangelischen Kirche , „ Wenn der Weisen viel sind , das ist der Welt Heil . “ B . d .
Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Vicki L. Ruiz

VICTORIA REID AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY María Raquel Casas Madame looks like a rose from Castile. Hugo Reid Sometime in September 1836, the widow Victoria Bartolomea married Hugo Reid at the San Gabriel mission, located ...
An meinen Geist: Friedrich der Große in seiner Dichtung: ...

An meinen Geist: Friedrich der Große in seiner Dichtung: ...

Friedrich der Große

Eine Anthologie Friedrich der Große Jürgen Overhoff, Vanessa de Senarclens ... AN HERRN VON GRUMBKOW, DEN GROSSMÜTIGEN KASCHUBEN Deutsche Übersetzung von Jürgen Overhoff. EPISTEL AN MEINE SCHWESTER IN ...

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