Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Averroès et l'averroïsme	Ernest Renan	On the philosophy of Averroës, 1126-1198, Arab philospher.	OL1068546W
L’étranger	Albert Camus	L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienn…	OL1230613W
Conrad Aiken	Frederick John Hoffman	A critical study of Aiken's work set against the background of his life and times.	OL1263642W
E. M. Forster	Mike Edwards	"This guide seeks to explore creatively the fascination of Forster's writing and to show how interesting ideas can emerge from close reading of extracts from the novels. Detailed analysis brings out …	OL134556W
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Doctor's Dilemma / Heartbreak House / Major Barbara / Pygmalion)	George Bernard Shaw	Contains: - Doctor's Dilemma - Heartbreak House - Major Barbara - [Pygmalion](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1066524W/Pygmalion)	OL15013904W
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	This unforgettable novel tells the story of Tom, a devoutly Christian slave who chooses not to escape bondage for fear of embarrassing his master. However, he is soon sold to a slave trader and sent …	OL152161W
Thomas Hardy	Harold Bloom	A collection of critical essays on Hardy, his novels, and poems with a chronology of events in the author's life.	OL16062355W
Sophie Ristelhueber	Sophie Ristelhueber	"How do we distinguish the boundaries - if they exist - between reality and fiction? And how does an artist suggest such discoveries are of consequence? For Sophie Ristelhueber, the greatest truth is…	OL17903350W
Christianity in Bakhtin	Ruth Coates	The work of the great Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin has been examined from a wide variety of literary and theoretical perspectives. None of the many studies of Bakhtin begins to do justice, howeve…	OL1807298W
Adversity and grace	Preston M. Browning,Nathan A. Scott	Religious implications in the works of Saul Bellow, Bernard Molamud, William Styron, and J. D. Salinger, and others.	OL18298646W
On extended wings	Helen Hennessy Vendler	Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Helen Hennessy Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. Stevens' central theme--t…	OL1851135W
The Cambridge Chaucer companion	Piero Boitani,Jill Mann	"Contains a series of essays by internationally known Chaucer experts, designed to provide a challenging introduction to the poet. The collection is divided between pieces which concentrate squarely …	OL18531775W
Chaucer	Valerie Allen	Over the last few decades, literary criticism has come increasingly to consider its relation to politics, socio-economics, gender, psychoanalysis, language and cultural values. Chaucer's most popular…	OL20940392W
Ramón María del Valle-Inclán	Roberta L. Salper	"This book is a collection of eleven essays devoted to the work of Ramon del Valle-Inclan (1866-1936). Long the recipient of critical analyses from various perspectives, Valle-Inclan's writing has ne…	OL21413005W
Glamorous sorcery	David Rollo	"Through the analysis of magic as a metaphor for the mysterious workings of writing, Glamorous Sorcery sheds light on the power attributed to language in shaping perceptions of the world and conferri…	OL221190W
Jean-Luc Godard, tout est cinéma	Richard Brody	Le critique américain Richard Brody s'appuie sur des centaines d'entretiens avec les amis, collaborateurs et membres de la famille de Godard ainsi que sur des séquences d'archives inédites pour dress…	OL24274210W
Maria Chapdelaine de Louis Hémon	Delphine Bailly	Cette petite collection didactique propose : 1. Des analyses documentées d'oeuvres littéraires québécoises et de livres de référence d'appoint; 2. Des synthèses sur les questions abordées en cours; 3…	OL24284658W
Montaigne ou La vie comme chef-d'oeuvre	Bertrand Vergely,Bertrand Vergely	La pensée que Montaigne, grand philosophe de la condition humaine, a véhiculé à travers son oeuvre, est décryptée.	OL24843302W
Ramón del Valle-Inclán	Robert Lima	This is a brief critical and biographical study in the distinguished series published by Columbia University Press.	OL2793335W
L'effet Sherlock Holmes	Victor Ieronim Stoichiţă	Réflexion sur le regard que l'artiste porte sur le monde, qui se manifeste dans la production artistique d'une époque et analyse de deux révolutions visuelles, picturale et cinématographique, liées p…	OL28591572W