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  • Pierre and Luce

    A Tale of Love, Sacrifice, and War: An Intimate Portrait of the Human Experience

    by Romain Rolland ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    In "Pierre and Luce," Romain Rolland crafts a poignant narrative set against the tumultuous backdrop of World War I, exploring the themes of love, sacrifice, and the transformative power of art. The prose exhibits Rolland's signature lyrical style, intertwining philosophical reflections with the harrowing realities of war. The novel captures the struggles of two young lovers in Paris, revealing ... Read more

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  • Istanbul

    Living with Difference in a Global City

    by Nora Fisher-Onar, Susan C. Pearce, Çaglar Keyder, Sami Zubaida, Feyzi Baban, Charles King, Ilay Romain Örs0, Amy Mills1, Anna Bigelow2, Kristen Sarah Biehl3, Hande Paker4 ...
    Series series New Directions in International Studies
    Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern and southern, religious and secular. Heir of ancient empires, Istanbul is the premier city of a ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Rollercoaster of Gambling: 12 Books

    Tales of Chance, Deception, Fortune, and Ruin from Victorian, Russian, and American Classics

    by Edward Moore, G. Frank Lydston, Bret Harte, William Le Queux, Clarence Louis Cullen, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Ralph Nevill, James Harold Romain, Charles Dickens, Harry Harrison, Burt L. Standish ...
    The Rollercoaster of Gambling: 12 Books gathers twelve works in which wagering becomes a lens for chance, desire, deception, and social aspiration. Moving among tales, sketches, sensation fiction, adventure, satire, and moral reflection, the volume ranges from card tables shadowed by obsession to racetracks, confidence games, and speculative schemes. Its strongest effects arise from this formal ... Read more

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  • Pierre & Luce (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Poignant World War I Romance of Parisian Artists, Tragic Young Love, and the Enduring Power of Human Connection

    by Romain Rolland, Jordan Pierce ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    Romain Rolland's *Pierre & Luce* is a compact, lyrical novella set in Paris during the final year of the First World War. It follows Pierre, a politically disillusioned young man, and Luce, an artistic and spiritually generous woman, whose unexpected love briefly creates a private refuge from militarism, grief, and social division. Rolland's spare narrative, luminous imagery, and recurring ... Read more

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  • Pierre and Luce (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Historical Romance Novel

    by Romain Rolland, Faye Roswell ...
    Translated by Charles De Kay ...
    Romain Rolland's Pierre and Luce is a lyrical antiwar novella set in Paris during the final phase of the First World War. Centered on the brief, fragile love between Pierre, a young bourgeois student awaiting conscription, and Luce, an artist's daughter earning her living by painting copies, the work opposes private tenderness to public catastrophe. Its style is intimate, symbolic, and musical, ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: 1

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  • The Girl with The Golden Eyes

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  • Original Short Stories — Volume 12

    by Louise Charlotte Garstin Quesada, Albert M. C. McMaster, A. E. Henderson, Guy de Maupassant ...
    Lemonnier had remained a widower with one child. He had loved his wife devotedly, with a tender and exalted love, without a slip, during their entire married life. He was a good, honest man, perfectly simple, sincere, without suspicion or malice. ... Read more

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