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  • Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Dual-Language)

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    This volume brings together six outstanding French tales, each by a different author, originally published between 1829 and 1886. Representing a variety of 10th-century literary trends (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and even a foretaste of Symbolism), the stories include Mateo Falcone (by Prosper Mérimée), Sylvie (by Gérard de Nerval), Alphonse Daudet's La mule du Pape (The Pope's Mule), ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Lazarillo de Tormes

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Anonymous ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue's adventures and misadventures — full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and wordplay. Introduction, Notes, and new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • First French Reader

    A Beginner's Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    This excellent anthology offers the beginning French-language student a first taste of some of the world's most significant prose. Chosen for both their eloquence and ease of reading, excerpts from such masterpieces as Les Misérables, The Red and the Black, Madame Bovary, Carmen, and The Three Musketeers will open new worlds for linguists. Readers will savor the words of fifty great writers of ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum, James Camner ...
    Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers — the names of composers of great American musicals are household words. But many of the stars who introduced these songwriters' classic triumphs and whose names were on everybody's lips a few decades ago have been all but forgotten. Now, with this book, you can take a fascinating journey into the days when Lillian Russell and Frank Daniels, or ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Poem of My Cid (Selections) / Poema de Mio Cid (Selección)

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    Early in the eighth century, Berbers from Morocco invaded Spain and quickly gained control of almost the entire peninsula. During the centuries-long struggle to reconquer their country, Christian warlords carved out small territories from the Moors, including the kingdom of Castile. Rodrigo Diaz, a Castilian knight who reclaimed much of Islamic Spain, ultimately achieved legendary status, and his ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther/Die Leiden des jungen Werther

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    Translated by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    Loosely based on Goethe's personal experiences, the novel is written mostly in the form of letters in which Werther recounts his unrequited love for a married woman. Its Sturm und Drang style, portraying the rebellion of youthful genius against conventional standards, makes it a perennial favorite with readers of every era. ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Chicago World's Fair of 1893

    A Photographic Record

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Originally conceived to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was one of the largest (633 acres) and most influential aggregations of human talent, energy, and industry ever assembled. More than 27 million visitors entered the grounds (now Jackson Park) to marvel at the exhibits and displays housed in some 200 buildings, ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Spanish-American Short Stories / Cuentos hispanoamericanos

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language Spanish
    These seventeen stories from the Caribbean and Central and South America encompass a tremendous variety of subjects, settings, moods, and styles — from worldly sophistication to outright savagery. Ranging in publication dates from 1867 to 1922, each story is by a different writer from a different country. All are well-known names in Spanish-American literature — Rubén Darío, José Martí, Amado ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Introduction to French Poetry

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language French
    An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets — 30 in all — from the mid-fifteenth century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Chénier, Hugo, Musset, Gautier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Five Great German Short Stories

    A Dual-Language Book

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    In the nineteenth century, in the hands of such writers as Heinrich von Kleist and E. T. A. Hoffmann, the short story established itself as one of the most expressive and characteristic genres in German literature. Twentieth-century authors such as Arthur Schnitzler, Thomas Mann, and Franz Kafka continued to deepen and strengthen the tradition.Now five of the finest German short stories — each a ... Read more

    $9.09 USD

  • Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke

    A Dual-Language Book

    by Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke ...
    Series series Dover Dual Language German
    At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse.Twelve of ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Medieval Tales and Stories

    108 Prose Narratives of the Middle Ages

    Edited by Stanley Appelbaum ...
    Ranging from half-page morality tales to hilarious bawdy stories several pages long, these centuries-old narratives offer revealing glimpses into many elements of medieval culture. Witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, and trial by torture are here, along with church councils, mercantile life, such famous figures as Abelard, Dante, and Giotto, and much ... Read more

    $7.19 USD