Belles lettres : manuscripts by the masters of French literature /
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| Uniform title: | Plus beaux manuscrits de la littérature française. English. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2001. |
| Description: | 239 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4515465 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Guillaume de Lorris (d. ca. 1240) - The Romance of the Rose, early thirteenth century
- Lancelot, ca. 1225
- Christine de Pizan (1365-1430?) - The Book of the City of Ladies, 1405
- Charles d'Orleans (1494-1465) - Rondels
- Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) - Discourse on Joy and Sadness, 1576
- Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) - Essays, 1588
- Francois de Malherbe (1555-1628) - Sonnets, 1608
- Cardinal de Retz (1613-1679) - Memoirs, 1636
- Rene Descartes (1596-1630) - Letter to Constantijn Huygens, 1642
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) - Memorial, 1654
- Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) - The Little Billiards Table, 1660
- Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) - Letter to the Abbe de Pure, 1660
- Jean Racine (1639-1699) - Iphigenia in Taurus, 1674
- Marquise de Sevigne (1626-1696) - Letter to Madame de Grignan, 1684
- Fenelon (1651-1715) - The Adventures of Telemachus, ca. 1694
- The Duc de Saint-Simon (1675-1753) - Memoirs, 1697
- Marivaux (1688-1763) - The Inheritance, 1736
- Montesquieu (1689-1755) - The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- Denis Diderot (1713-1784) - The Nun, 1760
- Voltaire (1694-1778) - Letter to d'Alembert concerning Rousseau, 1762 or 1763
- Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) - Dangerous Liaisons, 1778
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - Confessions, 1782
- Beaumarchais (1732-1799) - The Marriage of Figaro, 1784
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) - Paul and Virginia, 1785
- Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) - The Misfortunes of Virtue, 1787
- Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) - Memoirs of My Life, 1809
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) - Meditations, 1816
- Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) - Lorenzaccio, 1834
- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) - Pere Goriot, 1835
- Prosper Merimee (1803-1870) - The Venus of Ille, 1837
- Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) - "The Death of the Wolf," after 1838
- Stendhal (1783-1842) - Lucien Leuwen, 1840
- Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870) - The Count of Monte Cristo, 1844
- George Sand (1804-1876) - The Devil's Pool, 1846
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) - "Tomorrow, at dawn," 1874
- Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895) - The Lady of the Camellias, 1848
- Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) - Aurelie, 1855
- Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874) - Sophie's Misfortunes, 1858
- The Goncourt Brothers (1830-1870; 1822-1896) - Journal, 1858
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) - My Heart Laid Bare, 1859
- Tristan Corbiere (1845-1875) - "The Morlaisian Plaint," 1863
- Theophile Gautier (1811-1872) - Captain Fracasse, 1863
- Jules Michelet (1798-1874) - Journal, 1865
- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) - A Sentimental Education, 1869
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) - "Letter of the Seer," 1871
- Jules Verne (1828-1905) - Around the World in Eighty Days, 1873
- Villiers de L'Isle-Adam (1838-1889) - Cruel Tales, 1874
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) - "It weeps in my heart," 1874
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-1896) - The She-Devils, 1876
- Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) - Jack, 1876
- Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898) - Monologue of a Faun, 1876
- Jules Valles (1832-1885) - The Bachelor, 1878
- Ernest Renan (1823-1892) - Recollections of My Youth, 1883
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893) - The Horla, 1883
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907) - Against the Grain, 1884
- Emile Zola (1840-1902) - The Rougon-Macquart Novels, 1893
- Jules Renard (1864-1910) - Carrot-Head, 1893
- Leon Bloy (1864-1917) - My Diary, 1896
- Pierre Loti (1850-1923) - A Tale of the Pyrenees, 1897
- Edmond Rostand (1868-1918) - Cyrano de Bergerac, 1897
- Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) - Diary of a Chambermaid, 1900
- Anna, Countess de Noailles (1876-1933) - "Imprint," 1901
- Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) - Ubu in Montmartre, 1901
- Victor Segalen (1878-1919) - The Ageless Ones, 1903
- Paul Claudel (1868-1955) - Clearing at Noon, 1905
- Colette (1873-1954) - "The Tendrils of the Vine," 1905
- Andre Gide (1869-1951) - Strait is the Gate, 1906
- Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) - A Flea in Her Ear, 1907
- Charles Peguy (1873-1914) - Presentation from the Beauce Region to the Virgin of Chartres, 1912
- Anatole France (1844-1924) - The Gods Are Thirsty, 1912
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) - "The Pont Mirabeau," 1913
- Marcel Proust (1971-1922) - Swann's Way, 1913
- Alain-Fournier (1886-1914) - Meaulnes: The Lost Domain, 1913
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) - "The Marching Wood," 1914
- Max Jacob (1876-1944) - The Dice Cup, 1916
- Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) - Elastic Poems, 1919
- Andre Breton (1896-1966) and Philippe Soupault (1897-1990) - Magnetic Fields, 1920
- Robert Desnos (1900-1945) - "Love of Homonyms," 1922
- Raymond Radiguet (1903-1923) - Count d'Orgel's Ball, 1923
- Jules Romains (1885-1972) - Dr. Knock, 1923
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893-1945) - The Will-o'-The-Wisp, 1931
- Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) - The Vipers'Tangle, 1932
- Andre Malraux (1901-1967) - Man's Fate, 1933
- Marcel Ayme (1902-1967) - The Green Mare, 1933
- Jean Giono (1895-1970) - Joy of Man's Desiring, 1935
- Louis Aragon (1897-1982) - The Elegant Districts, 1936
- Georges Bernanos (1888-1948) - Diary of a Country Priest, 1936
- Simone Weil (1909-1943) - Factory Life, ca. 1937
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) - Nausea, 1938
- Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) - Exile, 1941
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944) - The Little Prince, 1942
- Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) - Malatesta, 1943
- Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) - The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1945
- Albert Camus (1913-1960) - The Plague, 1947
- Rene Char (1907-1988) - The Friendship of Georges Braque, 1947
- Boris Vian (1920-1959) - Mood Indigo, 1947
- Jacques Audiberti (1899-1965) - There Is Evil Abroad, 1947
- Cioran (1911-1995) - A Short History of Decay, 1949
- Eugene Ionesco (1912-1994) - The Bald Soprano, 1950
- Francis Ponge (1899-1989) - "Olives," 1950
- Rene-Guy Cadou (1920-1951) - "Those who happen to enter," 1950
- Paul Eluard (1895-1952) - "Here, there, everywhere," 1953
- Michel Butor (b. 1926) - Passage from Milan, 1954
- Georges Schehade (1907-1989) - The Voyage, 1961
- Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) - Manon of the Springs, 1964
- Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) - The Abyss, 1968
- Georges Perec (1936-1982) - Life: A User's Manual, 1972
- Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) - The Lover, 1984
- Andree Chedid (b. 1920) - Stroll Through the Centuries, 1987
- Bibliography
- List of Illustrations and Photograph Credits
- Index
