Robert Lethbridge: 2 books
by Guy de Maupassant, Robert Lethbridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2001
'Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever.' Henry James Henry James's admiration for 'this masterly little novel' has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning-point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional...
by �mile Zola, Robert Lethbridge
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2008
Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'....