La Curee

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199536929
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kill written by Émile Zola and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It was the time when the rush for spoils filled a corner of the forest with the yelping of hounds, the cracking of whips, the flaring of torches. The appetites let loose were satisfied at last, shamelessly, amid the sound of crumbling neighbourhoods and fortunes made in six months. The city had become an orgy of gold and women.' The Kill (La Curée) is the second volume in Zola's great cycle of twenty novels, Les Rougon-Macquart, and the first to establish Paris - the capital of modernity - as the centre of Zola's narrative world. Conceived as a representation of the uncontrollable 'appetites' unleashed by the Second Empire (1852-70) and the transformation of the city by Baron Haussmann, the novel combines into a single, powerful vision the twin themes of lust for money and lust for pleasure. The all-pervading promiscuity of the new Paris is reflected in the dissolute and frenetic lives of an unscrupulous property speculator, Saccard, his neurotic wife Renée, and her dandified lover, Saccard's son Maxime. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : J. A. Medford
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039178995
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kill written by J. A. Medford and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consciousness is an aberration in the Cosmos and must be eradicated. So says the Inner, a bodyless visitor to the Milky Way Galaxy. In an effort to destroy consciousness, he sets up the environment to play his game, The Kill. If he can get two gamers, one from Earth and one from Genesis, to enter the electromagnetic eye on Genesis, the magnetosphere which protects Earth from charged cosmic particles will be destroyed. His gamers, Lodgemen and Sacred Sisters ritualize their avatars and it’s game on. But the gamers, Luther Keyes and Sek, the Beast of Genesis wound each other, exchange blood, and break the rules of The Kill. As the controller searches for consciousness while struggling to retain control of his game, Luther, a former playboy,now in the throes of his first love, realizes that whether he wins or loses The Kill, the outcome will mean Earth’s demise. This science fiction/fantasy/romance follows the Inner on his relentless search for consciousness, and Luther Keyes, as he finds true love and realizes he may have to lose it to save us all.

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Curée written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James John Baran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor, Myth and Desire in Zola's La Curee written by James John Baran and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rush for the Spoil written by Émile Zola and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry Duffy
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401202125
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Grand Transit Moderne written by Larry Duffy and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores fictional responses to the changing transport and urban infrastructure of nineteenth-century France, arguing that networks of movement (and an accompanying ‘culture of networks’) which had become firmly established by the time of the Second Empire constitute a privileged subject for representation, and that naturalist fiction in particular is that representation’s privileged form. Contextualizing the study’s critical focus by way of a brief historical outline of the development of infrastructural networks in nineteenth-century France and a delineation of the problematical parameters of French naturalism, Duffy examines literary representations of new forms and conceptualisations of movement, principally in works by Flaubert, Zola, and Maupassant. Other authors discussed include the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Baudelaire and Claretie. Literary texts are examined alongside a range of related scientific, sociological and medical texts. What emerges strikingly from consideration of these works and the discourses they – often subversively – incorporate, is that movement, central to nineteenth-century industrial society’s view of itself, is frequently perceived and presented self-deludingly in the idealised metaphorical terms of smoothly-functioning systems of perpetual motion, and that naturalist fiction, by exploiting to their full potential the same metaphors in its narratives, challenges this ‘anti-entropic’ vision.

Author : Jan Hokenson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640104
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japan, France, and East-West Aesthetics written by Jan Hokenson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan, France is the first comprehensive history of the idea of Japan in France, as tracked through close readings of canonical French writers and thinkers from the 1860s to the present. The focus is literary and intellectual, the context cultural. The discovery of Japanese woodblock prints in Paris, following the opening of Japan to the West in 1854, was a startling aesthetic encounter that played a crucial role in the Impressionists' and Post-Impressionists' invention of Modernism. French writers also experimented with Japanese aesthetics in their own work, in ways that similarly thread into the foundations of literary Modernism. Japonisme (the practice of adapting Japanese aesthetics to creative work in the West) became a sustained French tradition, in texts by such writers as Zola and Proust through Barthes and Bonnefoy. Each generation discovered new Japanese arts and genres, commented on the work of their predecessors in this vein, and broke still more ground in East-West aesthetics to innovate in the forms of Western literature and thought. To read literary history in this way unsettles Eurocentric assumptions about many of the French writers who are commonly considered the

Author : Pierre Larousse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Dictionnaire Universel [du XIXe Siecle] Francais: A-Z 1805-76 written by Pierre Larousse and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Editions Bréal
ISBN 13 : 2749523656
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book written by and published by Editions Bréal. This book was released on with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Baguley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815625667
Total Pages : 1546 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Bibliography of French Literature written by David Baguley and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: