37 results for '"RACINE"'

... Admirable et vertueuse Andromaque ! Et surtout admirable Hermione ! Coupable d'un crime horrible, oui, mais c'est tout juste si on n'y applaudit pas tant est belle et touchante la passion qui...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the...

Product description "L'ide de Narcisse, d'Agrippine et de Nron, l'ide si noire et si horrible qu'on se fait de leurs crimes, ne saurait s'effacer de la mmoire du spectateur", crit Saint-Evremond...

Text: French, Greek

"Tragédie ambitieuse, cette pièce marque le terme et le sommet de l'oeuvre chrétienne de Racine."--

Les six pièces de Racine que contient ce volume forment le premier versant de l'oeuvre, celui de la prodigieuse et presque immédiate ascension d'un écrivain vers la perfection de son art. Racine a...

Pièce à part parmi les grandes tragédies de Racine, cette comédie est une satire des hommes de loi, menée dans la tradition de la commedia dell'arte.

A comprehensive, up-to-date textbook on nonparametric methods for students and researchers Until now, students and researchers in nonparametric and semiparametric statistics and econometrics have...

A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful...

Monsieur Racine wakes up one day to find his precious pear tree looted of all the award-winning fruit. When he discovers that the culprit is funny-looking beast, his anger gives way to curiosity and...

Racine's poetry is always thought to be untranslatable; so one of the world's great dramatists remains inaccessible to readers without French. This is the best translation into English; Professor...

The wealth of splendid photography in this singular publication features military cemeteries and memorials, conveying their grace, solemn beauty, and deep emotional resonance. Hundreds of cemeteries...

A history and theory of settler colonialism and social controlMany would rather change worlds than change the world. The settlement of communities in 'empty lands' somewhere else has often been...

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term...

In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French...

La masturbation au XIXe siècle est un vice affreux qui décime la jeunesse. On lui prête des effets sur la santé à ce point néfastes qu'elle apparaît comme une forme d'auto-destruction. Cette histoire...

La Poétique est l'ouvrage qui fonde la réflexion sur la poésie et l'objet littéraire en Europe : du Tasse à Lessing, de Racine à Nietzsche, tous les grands créateurs, tous les grands théoriciens...

Spitzer discusses the method he evolved for bringing together the two disciplines, linguistics and literary history, and examines the work of Cervantes, Racine, Diderot, and Claudel in the light of...

A landmark account of the work, thought, and life of the seventeenth-century French painterIn this book, Anthony Blunt presents a rich account of the paintings, life, and development of the great...