Paul Bourget

التلميذ

(Sensations D'Italie)

The Glamour of Italy

Monica, and Other Stories

Guy de Maupassant

Robert Arnot

The sowing of the seed ; Germination ; The birth of suspicion ; In the furnace of doubt ; The portrait ; Gehenna and Hymen ; Denunciation ; A three-cornered council ; Expatriation ; The heritage ; Toine ; An enthusiast ; The traveler's story ; A jolly fellow ; Father Matthew

Mademoiselle Fifi ; Monsieur Parent ; Useless beauty ; An affair of state ; The wooden shoes ; Babette ; Mamma Stirling ; Madame Tellier's excursion ; A cock crowed ; Lilie Lala ; The story of a farm-girl ; The bandmaster's sister ; A vagabond ; The mountebanks ; Ugly ; The debt ; A Normandy joke ; The father ; The artist ; False alarm ; That pig of a morin

Impressions of America

Outre-mer

The Disciple

Complications Sentimentales. (L'Écran.-L'Inutile Science.-Sauvetage.).

Mensonge. Physiologie de l'amour moderne

Mensonges

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A Living Lie: Mensonges

A Living Lie

Portraits d'ecrivains. Notes d'esthétique

A Tragic Idyl

"A Cruel Enigma," tells the story of a young man who takes a married woman for his first mistress. Excerpt: "Love," its author has said elsewhere, "has, like death, remained irreducible to human conventions. It is wild and free in spite of codes and modes. The woman who disrobes to give herself to a man lays aside her entire social personality with her garments. For him, she again becomes what he, too, becomes again for her—the natural, solitary creature to whom no protection can guarantee happiness, and from whom no decree can avert woe." These lines sum in brief the teaching of the book. Its author has, after his fashion, made an uncompromising analysis of the passion that he undertakes to describe, and, stripping from it all the adventitious grace and mysticism and sentiment with which society is wont to shroud it, have found it to consist, in the last resort, of a single and simple fact: the physical, fleshly desire of man for woman and woman for man. Hence it is that Theresa while receiving, and rejoicing exceedingly in, Hubert's loftier and more ideal affection, betrays it at the first opportunity for the sensual brutishness of a hard-living roué, and hence, too, it is that the pure-souled Hubert, even while he scorns his mistress for her treachery and loathes himself for his weakness, returns loveless and despairing to her arms."

A Cruel Enigma

Con che dolore le povere anime tormentate del nostro tempo avranno cercato una verità, ch'era così semplice e vicina, anzi sotto mano! Ma il dolore della ricerca non è forse una preghiera? Quando sentiamo che Dio ci manca, Egli ci sta appresso. Il professor Michel Ortègue è un famoso chirurgo parigino. A quaranta quattro anni è al culmine della carriera, quando nella sua vita entrano la giovane Catherine e la tragedia della Grande Guerra. Il suo ospedale diventa una trincea dove si combatte per la vita e per comprenderne il significato. E un terribile segreto agita la vita della piccola comunità dell'ospedale. Nel romanzo più 'forte' di Paul Bourget, il problema del senso della morte e quindi del senso della vita viene indagato nel corso di una storia semplice e avvincente, con alto livello di pathos e su un vivissimo sfondo storico. Quale sguardo sa leggere meglio l'esperienza umana? quello del chirurgo? o quello del suo zoppo assistente? o forse quello del giovane ferito al fronte?

Il senso della morte

In the sun ; The sea ; Algiers ; The Province of Oran ; Bou-Amama ; The Province of Algeria ; A salt lake ; Kabylia, Bougie ; Constantine ; At the seashore ; In Brittany ; The Creusot Ironworks ; Weariness ; Night ; The Italian coast ; Sicily ; From Algiers to Tunis ; Tunis ; On the road to Kairwan

In various roles ; The false gems ; Countess satan ; A useful house ; The viaticum ; Mad ; The hermaphrodite ; The colonel's ideas ; Violated ; Two little soldiers ; Ghosts ; Was it a dream? ; The new sensation ; Virtue ; The thief ; The diary of a madman ; In flagrante delictu ; On perfumes ; The will ; In his sweetheart's livery ; The confession ; An unfortunate likeness ; A night in Whitechapel ; Lost ; A country excursion ; The relics ; A rupture ; Margot's tapers ; The accent ; Profitable business ; Bertha ; The last step ; A mesalliance ; An honest ideal ; The log ; Delila ; The ill-omened groom

Cosmopolis

Paul Bourget

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