Catalogue de la belle et intéressante collection de M. M... comprenant livres rares anciens et curieux... dessins anciens et modernes... antiquités de toutes sortes... dont la vente aura lieu les... 23... 24... 25... 26... novembre 1885... à Lille par le ministère de Me Henri Genet, commissaire-priseur assisté de M. Perrot, expert à Rouen
Title | Catalogue de la belle et intéressante collection de M. M... comprenant livres rares anciens et curieux... dessins anciens et modernes... antiquités de toutes sortes... dont la vente aura lieu les... 23... 24... 25... 26... novembre 1885... à Lille par le ministère de Me Henri Genet, commissaire-priseur assisté de M. Perrot, expert à Rouen PDF eBook |
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Release | 1885 |
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Catalogue de la belle collection de dessins et aquarelles anciens et modernes réunie par feu m. L.X. Lannoy, des collections de gravures et eaux-fortes anciennes et modernes de m.m. L. Brender à Brandis et H.G. Buisman ainsi que de la collection de lithographies formée par le dr. H.C. Valkema Blouw
Title | Catalogue de la belle collection de dessins et aquarelles anciens et modernes réunie par feu m. L.X. Lannoy, des collections de gravures et eaux-fortes anciennes et modernes de m.m. L. Brender à Brandis et H.G. Buisman ainsi que de la collection de lithographies formée par le dr. H.C. Valkema Blouw PDF eBook |
Author | R.W.P. de Vries |
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Pages | 146 |
Release | 1925 |
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Catalogue de la belle collection de dessins anciens appartenant à M. E. N.
Title | Catalogue de la belle collection de dessins anciens appartenant à M. E. N. PDF eBook |
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Pages | 26 |
Release | 1860 |
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Catalogue des livres rares et précieux
Title | Catalogue des livres rares et précieux PDF eBook |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1874 |
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Catalogue : Estampes, suites de vignettes et portraits anciens et modernes, dessins originaux, le tout choisi et dessiné pour l'illustration de la collection de M. M.... [Maiseau], dont la vente aura lieu Hôtel des commissaires-priseurs, rue Drouot... du lundi 5 au samedi 10 avril 1869...
Title | Catalogue : Estampes, suites de vignettes et portraits anciens et modernes, dessins originaux, le tout choisi et dessiné pour l'illustration de la collection de M. M.... [Maiseau], dont la vente aura lieu Hôtel des commissaires-priseurs, rue Drouot... du lundi 5 au samedi 10 avril 1869... PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Eugène Vignères |
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Pages | 121 |
Release | 1869 |
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Memoirs of an Egotist
Title | Memoirs of an Egotist PDF eBook |
Author | Stendhal |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2021-03-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1528765311 |
This book contains the memoirs of Stendahl or in his own words the 'chatter about his private life' between 1821 and 1830. It was between these dates that he moved to Paris and here looks back on his life as an eccentric bachelor. 'As well as Beyle the clairvoyant self-investigator, the sardonic analyst of Parisian salon society and deliberate cultivator of wit, here emerges Beyle the despairing lover, the shakespearean enthusiast, whose romantic sentiment run always parallel with his eighteenth-century logic'. Marie-Henri Beyle - better-known by his pen name, Stendhal - was born in Grenoble, France in 1783. He turned to writing after the final defeat of Napoleon in 1815, notable works include A Life of Rossini (1824), A Life of Napoleon (1929) and The Red and the Black published in 1830. A number of works were published posthumously, including Lamiel (1889), Memoirs of an Egotist (1892) and Lucien Leuwen (1894). Stendhal is now regarded as one of the earliest and foremost practitioners of literary realism.
Orestes
Title | Orestes PDF eBook |
Author | Voltaire |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2013-08-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1627933212 |
Orestes was produced in 1750, an experiment which intensely interested the literary world and the public. In his Dedicatory Letters to the Duchess of Maine, Voltaire has the following passage on the Greek drama: "We should not, I acknowledge, endeavor to imitate what is weak and defective in the ancients: it is most probable that their faults were well known to their contemporaries. I am satisfied, Madam, that the wits of Athens condemned, as well as you, some of those repetitions, and some declamations with which Sophocles has loaded his Electra: they must have observed that he had not dived deep enough into the human heart. I will moreover fairly confess, that there are beauties peculiar not only to the Greek language, but to the climate, to manners and times, which it would be ridiculous to transplant hither. Therefore I have not copied exactly the Electra of Sophocles-much more I knew would be necessary; but I have taken, as well as I could, all the spirit and substance of it."