The Misanthrope

Author : Molière,
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199540187
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays written by Molière, and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback, 2001.

Author : Molière
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486112950
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope written by Molière and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best of Molière's comedies, focusing on a man who is quick to criticize the faults of others, yet remains blind to his own. Publisher's Note.

Author : Meghan Rowland
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440527776
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope's Guide to Life written by Meghan Rowland and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misanthrope, n.: 1.) One who hates mankind; a curmudgeon; a loner; 2.) The guy in your office who responded to your e-mail of baby photos with "D-. Passing, but not college material"; 3.) A Realist From The Misanthrope's Guide to Life In this guide, you'll learn how to get away from the pain-in-the-asses who make you seriously consider investing in a fallout shelter and making it your new home. You'll take isolated comfort in these survival strategies, including how to: Conduct managed incoherence to get the delivery boy from the lobby to your door Take a "French leave" in order to eat alone at work Get ousted from your kickball league by dressing as Magnum, P.I. for every game Get back at the jerk yapping on his cell phone by reciting the lyrics to Harry Chapin's version of "Cat's in the Cradle" End a conversation by "Gwynething" (also known as playing the "I'm delightfully foreign" act) someone to death This is the survival guide you will be annoyed not to have.

Author : Jean-Baptiste Moliere
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141913231
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope and Other Plays written by Jean-Baptiste Moliere and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seventeenth century, Molière raised comedy to the pitch of great art and, three centuries later, his plays are still a source of delight. He created a new synthesis from the major comic traditions at his disposal. This collection demonstrates the range of Molière's comic vision, his ability to move between the broad and basic ploys of farce to the more subtle and sophisticated level of high comedy. The Misanthrope appears along with Such Preposterously Precious Ladies, Tartuffe, A Doctor Despite Himself, The Would-Be Gentleman, and Those Learned Ladies.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141392096
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four French Plays written by Jean Racine and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, John Edmunds became the founder-director of Aberystwyth University's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).

Author : Catharina SMITH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misanthrope Father; Or, the Guarded Secret: a Novel. By Miss Smith. [The Preface Signed: Catharina.] written by Catharina SMITH and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence King
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312094140
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book With Charity Toward None written by Florence King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unreconstructed people-hater offers her piece de resistance: a guided tour of the misanthropic life, and an inspirational handbook for Americans grown tired of goo-goo humanitarianism and sensitivity that never sleeps. The only trouble with this book is that its covers are too close together.--The New York Times.

Author : Molière,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849439680
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grouch written by Molière, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-15 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How I deplore the bogus ways Of society these days - A sort of national contest To find out who can a se-lick best!” In this witty cutting version of Le Misanthrope Molière's angry hero Alceste becomes Alan - journalist, intellectual and free spirit-who finds himself adrift in a social whirl of false flattery and schmooze. In a world where nobody calls a spade a spade (or even knows what a spade is for), how can the cantankerous but high-minded Alan secure the affections of Celia - a spoiled, feckless, fickle socialite, who happens to be the love of his life? The Grouch was first performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse in February 2008

Author : Moliere
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598537121
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moliere: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations, Volume 2 written by Moliere and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays--themselves towering achievements in English verse--are brought together by Library of America in a two-volume edition One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molière's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. "Wilbur," the critic John Simon once wrote, "makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one." Now, for the first time, all ten of Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. The second volume includes the elusive masterpiece, The Misanthrope, often said to occupy the same space in comedy as Shakespeare's Hamlet does in tragedy; the fantastic farce Amphitryon, about how Jupiter and Mercury commandeer the identities of two mortals ; Tartuffe, Molière's biting satire of religious hypocrisy; and The Learned Ladies, like Tarfuffe, a drama of a household turned suddenly upside down. This volume includes the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and a foreword by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur's translations.

Author : Scott Oden
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250022886
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Gathering of Ravens written by Scott Oden and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scott Oden's epic novel A Gathering of Ravens is "satisfying...complex...and a pleasure to read" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). To the Danes, he is skraelingr; to the English, he is orcnéas; to the Irish, he is fomoraig. He is Corpse-maker and Life-quencher, the Bringer of Night, the Son of the Wolf and Brother of the Serpent. He is Grimnir, and he is the last of his kind—the last in a long line of monsters who have plagued humanity since the Elder Days. Drawn from his lair by a thirst for vengeance against the Dane who slew his brother, Grimnir emerges into a world that’s changed. A new faith has arisen. The Old Ways are dying, and their followers retreating into the shadows; even still, Grimnir’s vengeance cannot be denied. Taking a young Christian hostage to be his guide, Grimnir embarks on a journey that takes him from the hinterlands of Denmark, where the wisdom of the ancient dwarves has given way to madness, to the war-torn heart of southern England, where the spirits of the land make violence on one another. And thence to the green shores of Ireland and the Viking stronghold of Dubhlinn, where his enemy awaits. But, unless Grimnir can set aside his hatreds, his dream of retribution will come to nothing. For Dubhlinn is set to be the site of a reckoning—the Old Ways versus the New—and Grimnir, the last of his kind left to plague mankind, must choose: stand with the Christian King of Ireland and see his vengeance done or stand against him and see it slip away? Scott Oden's A Gathering of Ravens is a novel of vengeance, faith, and the power of myth.