The play follows the emotional journey of a woman, often perceived as delicate and ethereal, whose life and relationships are marked by intense, passionate, and sometimes tragic experiences. The central character struggles with personal identity and the pressures placed upon her by society and love. The narrative unfolds as she navigates these internal and external conflicts, leading to a profound emotional revelation.Clair de Lune is known for its poetic language and emotional depth. Mich...

Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the heart of the global political economy. Despite the WTO’s centrality and the growing popularity of methods utilizing discourse theory, no other text has yet demonstrated how these two fields of learning can be productively combined. The book seeks to move beyond existing literatures that assume the WTO to be a structure, institution or normative fra...

The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities wrought by a domineering woman upon her husband, children, and household. “Wilbur...makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one” (John Simon, New York). Introductions by Richard Wilbur.This single volume contains two of Molière’s most enduring comedies, ...

Gerard was on his way to meet the beautiful Fluerette when he wandered into Averoigne's forest… a place of mystery and danger… (note: single title, non-omnibus edition)

When the night came, he went to the meeting-place, and quietly let himself be blindfolded.Raw as Honoré de Balzac is famed to be, this daring novella—never before published as a stand-alone book—is perhaps the most outlandish thing he ever wrote. While still concerned with the depiction of the underside of Parisian life, as is most of Balzac’s oeuvre, The Girl with the Golden Eyes considers not the working lives of the poor, but the sex lives of the upper ...

Honore De Balzac may only have lived for 51 years but his work lives on through such vital classics as his novella A Second Home (Une Double Famille). Set in 1815, an impoverished mother and daughter slave away as embroiderers barely making ends meet. A part of his famous series La Comedie Humaine (The Human Comedy) which parodies and depicts French life in the period of the Resotration and the July Monarchy between 1815 and 1848 De Balzac keeps to an astonishing standard.

In "Yvette," Guy de Maupassant delves into the complexities of love, desire, and societal expectations through the lens of romantic realism. The novella unfolds the poignant story of Yvette, a young woman caught in a tumultuous liaison with a wealthy man, exposing the stark realities of class distinctions and the struggle for autonomy in a male-dominated society. Maupassant'Äôs concise prose, marked by vivid characterizations and stirring emotional depth, captures the nuances of human rela...

As they were leaving the Cafe Riche, Jean de Servigny said to Leon Saval: “If you don't object, let us walk. The weather is too fine to take a cab.

I have spent thousands of years in this earthly world, it would appear, and the spiritualistic component of my own being must have been successively transmitted in the continuity of human creatures, before it became my privilege to be one of the denizens of the planet of Mars, my present dwelling. "How happy he will be," will exclaim those unfortunate mortals who still weep on earth, "for has he not left our vale of tears?" No such thing! You are entirely mistaken, for I feel very dull her...

While on a journey to Prague with his wife for the opening night of Don Giovanni, Mozart is caught picking an orange on the grounds of a stately home. But when the resident family finds out who they are dealing with, they are delighted to be in the presence of the celebrated composer and invite him to their daughter's wedding. This vivid and imaginative depiction captures both the humorous and the more pensive side of the genius composer.

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The story follows an unnamed narrator who visits a mental institution in southern France (more accurately, a "Maison de Santé") known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the "system of soothing". A companion with whom he is travelling knows Monsieur Maillard, the originator of the system, and makes introductions before leaving the narrator. The narrator is shocked to learn that the "system of soothing" has recently been abandoned. He questions this, as he has...