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  • The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother

    by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ...
    Translated by David Coward ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother were the first plays to use a set of recurring characters who develop over time. They chronicle the slide of the ancien regime into revolution and Figaro was seen as a threat to the establishment. The impertinent, bustling servant was appropriated by Mozart and Rossini for their own purposes, and Beaumarchais became eighteenth ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Follies of a Day or The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ...
    The play unfolds over the course of a single day in Count Almaviva’s estate. Figaro, a clever and resourceful valet, is about to marry Suzanne, but their plans are threatened by the Count's attempts to seduce her. Figaro, Suzanne, and the Countess team up to expose and outsmart the Count, ultimately revealing his hypocrisy. The plot is a mix of deception, hidden identities, and humorous ... Read more

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  • A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks

    Classic Tales of Courtship, Domestic Conflict, Social Convention, and Changing Gender Roles

    by George Bernard Shaw, John Kendrick Bangs, George Farquhar, Susanna Centlivre, Henrik Ibsen, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Allan Monkhouse, Humphry Mrs. Ward, Charlotte Skinner, P. Jones, Mrs. Gordon Smythies, Arthur Hornblow, George Howells Broadhurst, Florence L. Barclay, A. S. M. Hutchinson, Archibald Marshall, Arthur Stringer, George Sand, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Margaret Widdemer, Mabel Barnes-Grundy, Neith Boyce, Martha Morton, W. Heimburg, Albert Delpit, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, George Moore, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Walter Besant, Alfred Ollivant, Cornelia A. P. Comer, August Strindberg, P. G. Wodehouse, Mae M. Franking, Katherine Anne Porter, Honoré de Balzac, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, George Gissing, Rudyard Kipling, Ella D'Arcy, Elinor Glyn, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hannah More, Mary Croom Brown, Fowl, Helen Rowland, Burt L. Standish, Annie F. Johnston, Carolyn Wells, James Montgomery Flagg, Sir John Dillon, Edward Ward, Frank Chapman Bliss ...
    A Journey Through Marital Tales: 52 Storybooks surveys marriage as contract, comedy, ordeal, aspiration, and social institution across an unusually broad transnational archive. Its stories and dramatic selections move from satirical intrigue and drawing-room wit to domestic realism, psychological conflict, sentimental romance, and pointed social critique. Comic reversals, contested inheritances, ... Read more

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  • The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro

    Enriched edition. A comedy, as it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. From the French of M. de Beaumarchais

    by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Jenna Whitmore ...
    Translated by Thomas Holcroft ...
    In his seminal play "The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro," Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais deftly intertwines comedy and social critique, encapsulating the tensions of 18th-century French society. With its witty dialogues and intricate plot, the play follows Figaro, the clever servant, as he navigates a labyrinth of romantic entanglements and class dynamics, all while subverting ... Read more

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  • The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre de Beaumarchais ...
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Follies of a Day; or, The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais

    by Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de ...
    The Marriage of Figaro is a comedy in five acts, written in 1778 by Pierre Beaumarchais. This play is the second in the Figaro trilogy, preceded by The Barber of Seville and followed by The Guilty Mother. ... Read more

    $2.00 USD

  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais ...
    A French courtier, secret agent, libertine and adventurer, Beaumarchais (1732-99) was also author of two sparkling plays about the scoundrelly valet Figaro - triumphant successes that were used as the basis of operas by Mozart and Rossini. A highly engaging comedy of intrigue, The Barber of Seville portrays the resourceful Figaro foiling a jealous old man's attempts to keep his beautiful ward from ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro

    by Pierre Beaumarchais ...
    Eighteenth century French author Pierre Beaumarchais is best known today for his Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat, and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a series of lawsuits in Paris, the accounts of his trials made his reputation as a sarcastic, effective, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Barber of Seville

    by Pierre de Beaumarchais ...
    Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat and a financer of revolutions. His literary career was as turbulent as his personal life. After a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    600 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 17th Century

    intégrale

    by William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jean Racine, Jean de La Bruyère, Beaumarchais, Miguel de Cervantes ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty, Katie Haigh ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 30 min

    '600 Quotations from the Great Writers of the 17th Century' features the wit and wisdom of some of the 17th century's greatest-ever writers, including Miguel de Cervantes, novelist and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, French playwright Jean Racine, and English playwright William Shakespeare, one of the most quoted people in the world.This carefully curated compilation is motivating, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    3500 Final Quotes

    by Jane Austen, Jane Austen, Platon, Platon, Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill, William Shakespeare, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Oscar Wilde, Anne Frank, Ralph Waldo Emerson0, Albert Einstein1, Marcel Proust2, Søren Kierkegaard3, Friedrich Nietzsche4, Buddha5, Laozi6, Fyodor Dostoevsky7, Mahatma Gandhi8, Voltaire9, Henry David Thoreau0, Montesquieu1, Immanuel Kant2, Arthur Schopenhauer3, Denis Diderot4, Marcus Aurelius5, Abraham Lincoln6, Baruch Spinoza7, Charles de Gaulle8, Cicero9, Confucius0, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg1, Leonardo da Vinci2, Martin Luther King3, Napoleon Bonaparte4, Nicolas de Chamfort5, Beaumarchais6, Socrates7 ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty8 ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 35 min

    Ready yourself for this carefully crafted collection of quotes from some of the greatest minds the world has ever seen!Featuring world-famous playwrights, philosophers, activists, Presidents and physicists, from Churchill and Shakespeare to Gandhi and Einstein, this is an entertaining and inspiring compilation covering everything from Ancient Rome to modern-day Britain.'3500 Final Quotes' is ideal ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    100 Quotes by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

    by Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais ...
    Narrated by Brad Carty ...

    Unabridged

    20 min

    Packed with thoughts, reflections, witticisms, and lines from his extensive body of work, '100 Quotes by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' is a superb read for fans of this accomplished writer.Ideal for dipping in and out of, readers of this collection will find themselves surprised as to how many of his sayings have found their way into modern parlance.A welcome addition to any coffee table. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus