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  • Le Diable amoureux

    by Jacques Cazotte ...
    Le Diable amoureux (sous-titré Nouvelle espagnole) est un roman de Jacques Cazotte publié en 1772. Ce texte est considéré comme précurseur du récit fantastique.Un jeune homme, Alvare, décide par forfanterie de convoquer le diable en compagnie de trois amis. Le diable lui apparaît d'abord sous les traits d'un chameau, puis d'un épagneul et enfin sous les traits gracieux de Biondetta, dont il ... Read more

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  • The Devil In Love

    by Jacques Cazotte ...
    The Devil in Love (French: Le Diable amoureux, 1772) is an occult romance by Jacques Cazotte published in English in 1793. The novel tells of Alvaro, a young but wise man who invokes Satan. Upon seeing the young Alvaro, Satan falls in love with him, and assumes the appearance of a young woman and follows him as his page. In the journey that unfolds, Satan disguised as a woman tries to seduce ... Read more

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  • The Devil in Love

    by Jacques Cazotte ...
    � A brief but sparkling bon-bon from the French writer Jacques Cazotte, who was guillotined in 1792. A young captain, stationed in Naples, is tempted into summoning up Beelzebub, who appears first in the guise of a hideous camel, then as a cute spaniel, and lastly - and most dangerously - as a gorgeous, pouting nymphette who declares herself enamoured of the young man and follows him everywhere. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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    First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit — Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night — Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot", Baudelaire remarked that he had read Bertrand's work at least twenty times for starting "Paris Spleen" ... Read more

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  • The Poems And Prose Poems Of Charles Baudelaire

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    The Poems And Prose Poems Of Charles Baudelaire by Charles Baudelaire. ... Read more

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    Baudelaire is a masculine poet. He carved rather than sang; the plastic arts spoke to his soul. A lover and maker of images. Like Poe, his emotions transformed themselves into ideas. Bourget classified him as mystic, libertine, and analyst. He was born with a wound in his soul, to use the phrase of Père Lacordaire. Recall Baudelaire's prayer: "Thou, O Lord, my God, grant me the grace to produce ... Read more

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  • A Love Story

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    Here are few sentences from the Book,"Whosoever will charge these travails with many oversights, he shall need no solemn pains to prove them."And upon the view taken of this book sithence the impression, I dare assure them, that shall observe most faults therein, that I, by gleaning after him, will gather as many omitted by him, as he shall shew committed by me. ... Read more

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  • The Painter of Modern Life

    by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire ...
    Translated by P. E. Charvet ...
    Series series Penguin Great Ideas
    Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life.GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - ... Read more

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  • Five Books

    by Thomas Love Peacock ...
    This file includes: Headlong Hall (1815), Nightmare Abbey (1818), Maid Marian (1822), Crotchet Castle (1831), and Gryll Grange (1861. ... Read more

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  • Love

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    Translated by Gilbert Sale, Suzanne Sale ...
    In 1818, when he was in his mid-thirties, Stendhal met and fell passionately in love with the beautiful Mathilde Dembowski. She, however, was quick to make it clear that she did not return his affections, and in his despair he turned to the written word to exorcise his love and explain his feelings. The result is an intensely personal dissection of the process of falling - and being - in love: a ... Read more

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  • A Journey Around My Room

    by Xavier De Maistre ...
    Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer uses his imagination to travel around his room, using the various objects it contains as inspiration for a delightful parody of contemporary travel-writing and exercise in Sternean picaresque, and humorously demonstrating what one can explore without having to travel to exotic locations. Contains a foreword by Alain de Botton ... Read more

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