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"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as «Dumpling», «Butterball», «Ball of Fat» or «Ball of Lard») is a famous short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled «Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre» («Dumpling and Other Stories of the War»). The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently...
| Автор | Guy de Maupassant |
"Boule de Suif" (translated variously as «Dumpling», «Butterball», «Ball of Fat» or «Ball of Lard») is a famous short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled «Boule de Suif et Autres Contes de la Guerre» («Dumpling and Other Stories of the War»). The story is set in the Franco-Prussian War and follows a group of French residents of Rouen, recently...
| Автор | Guy de Maupassant |
Barchester Towers is the second novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire». Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
Barchester Towers is the second novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the «Chronicles of Barsetshire». Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, gentle Mr Harding, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, gentle Mr Harding, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen...
| Автор | Anthony Trollope |
Fully entitled “Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ’Eighty,” this novel was Dickens’ first attempt at a historical novel. As such, it is the precursor to his more famous “A Tale of Two Cities”, in which his exploration of mob violence, and especially the effect of public events on individual lives, becomes apparent. This work centers on Barnaby Rudge, a mentally simple son, and his loving mother, who are a part of the small village of Epping Forest, just outside of London. This community...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
