#eugenie grandet

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Eugénie Grandet, Balzac

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Artist, by Kalliope Amorphous

"Hangi durumda olursa olsun, kadınların erkeklerden daha fazla acı çekme nedenleri vardır, bu yüzden erkeklerden daha çok acı çekerler. Erkek güçlüdür, gücünün etkisini gösterir: Gider, gelir, düşünür, bir şeyler yapmaya çalışır, geleceği anlayıp teselli bulur. Charles da işte böyle yapıyordu. Ama kadın, yaşadığı yerde, hiçbir şeyin avutamadığı kederiyle baş başadır; kederin açmış olduğu uçurumun dibine kadar iner, derinliğini ölçer; onu, genellikle duaları ve gözyaşlarıyla doldurur. Eugénie de böyle yapıyordu."

Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet

[itsnothingbutluck]

…Moliere và Balzac là hai trong sốnhững tác gia có đóng góp đáng kểcho nền văn học thếgiới. Cuộc đời và sựnghiệp sáng tác của họ đã đểlại trong lòng người đọc rất nhiều ấn tượng sâu sắc. Molier được coi là người đã sáng lập ra hài kịch cổ điển Pháp thếkỉXVII và đưa nó tới đỉnh cao xán lạn. St Beuve đã nhận xét : “Nếu có một đại hội các thiên tài văn học cổkim trên thếgiới thì người đại diện cho văn học Pháp phải là Moliere”. Và không phải ngẫu nhiên mà “trong 209 tác giả được Balzac nhắc tới trong tác phẩm của mình, Moliere đứng đầu với 240 lần” (Theo J.Belatre). Mặc dù sinh ra trong một gia đình tưsản hầu cận nhà vua, có một cuộc sống khá vất vảvà khó khăn nhưng bằng tài năng và lòng yêu thích nghệ thuật đặc biệt là kịch, ông đã sáng tạo nên những tác phẩm để đời. Trong những tác phẩm của ông chất hài kịch rất đậm nét. Thông qua tiếng cười để phê phán, đảkích thói xấu xa của giai cấp quí tộc, tăng lữ, phong kiến Pháp, thểhiện quan điểm của ông trước hiện thực xã hội. Những thăng trầm và trải nghiệm trong cuộc sống đã là chất liệu và cảm hứng đểMolier kiến tạo ra những tác phẩm hài kịch đặc sắc…

[dreams-of-mutiny]

MORTIMER ADLER’S READING LIST (PART 2)

Reading list from “How To Read a Book” by Mortimer Adler (1972 edition).

Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man

Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu: Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws

Voltaire: Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones

Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets

David Hume: Treatise on Human Nature; Essays Moral and Political; An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: On the Origin of Inequality; On the Political Economy; Emile, The Social Contract

Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy; A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments; The Wealth of Nations

Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason; Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals; Critique of Practical Reason; The Science of Right; Critique of Judgment; Perpetual Peace

Edward Gibbon: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Autobiography

James Boswell: Journal; Life of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D.

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier: Traité Élémentaire de Chimie (Elements of Chemistry)

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison: Federalist Papers

Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation; Theory of Fictions

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust; Poetry and Truth

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier: Analytical Theory of Heat

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Phenomenology of Spirit; Philosophy of Right; Lectures on the Philosophy of History

William Wordsworth: Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems; Biographia Literaria

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice; Emma

Carl von Clausewitz: On War

Stendhal: The Red and the Black; The Charterhouse of Parma; On Love

Lord Byron: Don Juan

Arthur Schopenhauer: Studies in Pessimism

Michael Faraday: Chemical History of a Candle; Experimental Researches in Electricity

Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology

Auguste Comte: The Positive Philosophy

Honore de Balzac: Père Goriot; Eugenie Grandet

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative Men; Essays; Journal

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

John Stuart Mill: A System of Logic; On Liberty; Representative Government; Utilitarianism; The Subjection of Women; Autobiography

Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species; The Descent of Man; Autobiography

Charles Dickens: Pickwick Papers; David Copperfield; Hard Times

Claude Bernard: Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine

Henry David Thoreau: Civil Disobedience; Walden

Karl Marx: Capital; Communist Manifesto

George Eliot: Adam Bede; Middlemarch

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; Billy Budd

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary; Three Stories

Henrik Ibsen: Plays

Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace; Anna Karenina; What is Art?; Twenty-Three Tales

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; The Mysterious Stranger

William James: The Principles of Psychology; The Varieties of Religious Experience; Pragmatism; Essays in Radical Empiricism

Henry James: The American; ‘The Ambassadors

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil; The Genealogy of Morals; The Will to Power

Jules Henri Poincare: Science and Hypothesis; Science and Method

Sigmund Freud: The Interpretation of Dreams; Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis; Civilization and Its Discontents; New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

George Bernard Shaw: Plays and Prefaces

Max Planck: Origin and Development of the Quantum Theory; Where Is Science Going?; Scientific Autobiography

Henri Bergson: Time and Free Will; Matter and Memory; Creative Evolution; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion

John Dewey: How We Think; Democracy and Education; Experience and Nature; Logic; the Theory of Inquiry

Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics; Science and the Modern World; The Aims of Education and Other Essays; Adventures of Ideas

George Santayana: The Life of Reason; Skepticism and Animal Faith; Persons and Places

Lenin: The State and Revolution

Marcel Proust: Remembrance of Things Past

Bertrand Russell: The Problems of Philosophy; The Analysis of Mind; An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth; Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits

Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain; Joseph and His Brothers

Albert Einstein: The Meaning of Relativity; On the Method of Theoretical Physics; The Evolution of Physics

James Joyce: ‘The Dead’ in Dubliners; A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man; Ulysses

Jacques Maritain: Art and Scholasticism; The Degrees of Knowledge; The Rights of Man and Natural Law; True Humanism

Franz Kafka: The Trial; The Castle

Arnold J. Toynbee: A Study of History; Civilization on Trial

Jean Paul Sartre: Nausea; No Exit; Being and Nothingness

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The First Circle; The Cancer Ward

Source: mortimer-adlers-reading-list

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✦Anna Friel

Cadfael S02E03 — under development A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 — under development

✦Catherine Mouchet

The Monk 2011 — part 1, part 2, part 3

✦Déborah François

Dombais et fils 2007 — under development The Monk 2011 — part 1, part 2 L'état sauvage 2019 Never Grow Old 2019 Fleur de tonnerre 2016 Mes cheres etudes 2010 Les fourmis rouges 2007

✦Dominic West

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 — under development

✦Frédéric Noaille

The Monk 2011 — part 1, part 2

✦Joséphine Japy

Eugenie Grandet 2021— under development The Monk 2011 — (690 x 388px), (300 x 169px)

✦Kevin Kline

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 — under development

✦María Valverde

La carga 2016 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8 Libertador 2013 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 Los Borgia 2006 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9 Melissa P. 2005 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8

✦Paz Vega

Carmen 2003 — under development Los Borgia 2006 — part 1, part 2, part 3 One Thousand and One Nights 2012 — under development

[psalm22-6]

Everybody would like to know: what are the 

?

Of course, they also want to know:

The answer is Les Misérables (sometimes).  While I was looking through the California Digital Newspaper Collection, I made note of the articles which mentioned that Les Misérables was included in the local library.  To begin, in 1885 the Napa Free Library opened in Napa, California, which seems to have been a subscription library furnished with  a watercooler “where he who seeks the fountain of knowledge may at the same time slake his thirst tor water.” The library’s board of Trustees selected which books the library would carry, and Les Misérables was among the first 35 selected.  Missouri’s Saint-Louis Republic reported in 1889: “When ‘Les Miserables’ first appeared fifty copies answered the demand, although this is one of the most constantly read books in the library.”

In 1890 the Chicago Tribune quoted a bookseller as saying “I sell a copy of Victor Hugo's ‘Les Miserables’ every ten days regularly.” (I know I said this was about libraries but I just thought that one was interesting). 

In 1891, in the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, “of French books, the one most read is Victor Hugo's ‘Les Miserables.’” Of course it’s not just about what people like to read, it’s also about what is considered to be “good literature” and “worth reading” by those in charge. For example, see this headline from the San Pedro News Piolet in 1919

The high school’s librarian writes: 

What do we mean by “better books?” During the last hour I have been considering the subject with a group of young people who happened to be gathered in the school library for study. The discussion was precipitated by the following request from a young girl:

“Please get me something to read that will be good for, me.” You may think that such a request must be either unusual or insincere, but it is neither. It comes to me constantly in one form or another. “What is a real good story?” “I want something beside fiction.” “Will this book be good enough to make an English report on?” “What is the difference between Harold Bell Wright’s stories and those of Ralph Connor?” etc., etc. The debate today drew into its vortex all the occupants of the study hall and, at times, grew a little warm. Several were enthusiastic supporters of Harold Bell Wright, and I tried to explain to them the difference between the sentimental, poorly written novel and the vigorous tale of adventure and romance. The following list of books is the one the young girl in question actually considered reading. It might be interesting to look through the titles and check those we have read or that we know something about. They can all be found at the public library, and I feel sure that anyone who reads them all will be richly rewarded. To make the acquaintance of a great book is in itself an education. She chose from the list Les Miserables, the greatest of all novels. If she reads it intelligently it will be an addition to her mental life that she must appreciate and feel as long as she lives and thinks. Following is the list: Victory — Joseph Conrad. Adam Bede — George Eliot. Fathers and Sons — Turgenev. Smoke — Turgenev. The Crime of Sylvester Bonnard — Anatole France. The Rise of Silas Lapham — William U. Howells. A Modern Instance — William D. Howells. Eugenie Grandet — Balzac. The Iron Woman — Margaret Deland. Anna Karenina —Tolstoy. Les Miserables — Victor Hugo. Jane Eyre—Charlotte Broute [sic]. This is a chapter from real life, and this list is given because it is one actually discussed on this occasion. Other lists as good might be made.

A little out of order for the timeline but that same theme was explored by E.L. Kellogg, the library of the Carnegie library located in San Luis Obispo in 1917 and she had this to say: 

But the reading of light, overdrawn, ephemeral fiction only, is a species of intemperance, which not only vitiates the taste, but shuts out a whole world of profit and pleasure among the works of real genius. There is Dickens whose “every page is crowded with jostling life,” to read whom is like taking a walk down some "highway of life where we may come into contact with humanity.” What a pity to go through life unacquainted with the episode of the stolen candle-sticks In Les Miserables, or the splendid Doctor of the Old School in The Bonnie Brier Bush!

In the San Mateo Daily News Leader, in 1912, it was reported that the local library was able to purchase “a handsome four volume edition of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables with recent gift money.” However reader’s desiring other books not in the library’s collection, they would have to consult the state library or “kindly confer with the librarian. If a number of books are ordered at one time the cost for each applicant will be trifling. Expressage is the only expense.”

Books were not just for solitary reading and individual improvement. As reported in the Hanford Journal in December of 1913: 

There are a number of useful books and magazines that are full of the suggestions that will aid any one who plans on entertaining during the holidays. These volumes will be found at the Hanford public library: Powers' “Dialogues for Little Folks” contains a couple of plays for children, entitled a “Christmas Gift” and “Edna’s Christmas Wishbones.” Knight's “Dramatic Reader for Grammar Grades” gives Dickens' famous story of "Ebenezer Scrooge's Christmas," written in dramatic form, and "Little Cosette” and “Father Christmas” adapted from Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables.” [Wow I just learned about another adaptation thanks to this.]

Great holiday fun for the whole family.  In 1916 they got a whole lot of new books in Calexico (sorry for the low quality. Les Mis is in there): 

In 1911 an advice columnist for the San Francisco Call advised readers that “if you have never read ‘Les Miserables,’ you might attack that this summer.” (Or, of course, if that isn’t your cup of tea, “promise yourself that you will read a dozen good books on hypnotism and clairvoyance and the other manifestations of the unknown world into which science is trying to peek.) (Two years later that same columnist reported that her neighbor was forced to stop reading most magazines due to financial problems, but that that neighbor had said “It has driven us to make more use of our fine library, and the other day we discovered we hadn’t read half the books on our own shelves. So now I’m absorbed in Les Miserables and Jack is reading one of Thackeray‘s that he hadn’t happened to read — both books right off our own bookshelves.”) And that’s just about it as far as anything remotely interesting goes! 

[psychedelic-charm]

All of the academia essentials are here.

Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby - N. Scott Fitzgerald

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

The Rebel - Albert Camus

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Last Days of Socrates - Plato

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

The Iliad - Homer

Eugenie Grandet - Honore de Balzac

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Candide - Voltaire

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Orlando - Virginia Woolf

The Fall of the House of Usher - Edgar Allen Poe

Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth

Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre

The Odyssey - Homer

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Ship - C.S. Forester

The General - C.S. Forester

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Cheri and the Last of Cheri - Colette

The Good Soldier: Schweik - Jaroslav Hašek

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets - Stephen Crane

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

The Laurel Poetry Series - Edgar Allan Poe

The Histories - Herodotus

When the Going Was Good - Evelyn Waugh

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

The Deerslayer - James Fenimore Cooper

Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

20,000 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury

[byronsmuse]

If I'd had a man of my own, I'd have followed him . . . down to hell.

Balzac, Eugenie Grandet

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Part 181: Saturday, 25th December 1965, 10.25p.m.

.A very brief entry, want to see second instalment of Eugenie Grandet on TV at 10.35. Pain in left shoulder-blade yesterday, quite a definite pain. Gone to-day (except perhaps for a very slight twinge if I think about it, but I didn’t have to think about yesterday’s pain). It’s the schmallippiger Antlitz des Lebens [allusion to Thomas Mann’s “Royal Highness”. The prince’s educator, Doctor���

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gorgeous edition of Eugénie Grandet❤️

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"Fizik olarak, Grandet, kısaca boylu, tıknaz, dört köşe biriydi, bacakları kalın, dizleri ağaç gövdeleri gibi güçlü, omuzlarıysa genişti. Yuvarlak, güneş yanığı, çiçek bozuğu bir yüzü vardı. Çenesi düz, dudakları kıvrıntısız, dişleri de beyazdı. Gözlerinin durgun, ölü gibi bakışı kabaca kertenkele bakışı denilen türdendi. Derin çizgili alnı, yüzden insan doğasını keşfeden bir uzman için hiç de anlamsız sayılmayacak biçimde çıkıntılıydı. Sarımsı saçları artık kırlaşmaktaydı. Monsieur Grandet hakkında şaka yapmanın ne ciddi bir sorun olduğunun farkına varmamış birtakım gençlere göre de bu saçlar altın ve gümüş gibiydi. Burnunun ucu kalındı ve üzerinde damarlı bir yumru vardı, her nedense halk arasında bu yumrunun kötülük dolu olduğu söylenirdi. Yüzünden, tehlikeli bir kurnazlık, hesaplı bir doğruluk, gün be gün, duygularını para biriktirmek ve dünyada kendisine bir şey ifade eden tek varlık olan kızı, tek varisi Eugelie üzerinde yoğunlaştıran bir adamın bencilliği okunuyordu. Halinde, davranışında, duruşunda, tavrında, kendisiyle ilgili her şeyde; giriştiği hiçbir işten başarısız çıkmayan birinin kendine güveni vardı. Görünürde uysal ve yumuşak konuşan biriydi ama Monsieur Grandet'nin demir gibi bir ruh yapısı vardı.

Her zaman aynı modaya göre giyinirdi: Onu bugün görmek 1791'de görmek gibiydi. Hantal pabuçlarının deri bağları vardı. Yaz kış kalın yün çoraplar, gümüş tokalı kaba, kestane rengi çuha pantolon, kadife çizgili ve boğazına kadar düğmeli, uzun, bol kestane rengi bir ceket, siyah bir boyunbağı ve bir Cusker şapkası giyerdi. Eldivenleri bir jandarmamın kullanacağı kadar sağlamdı, hemen hemen iki yıldır bunları giymekteydi ve temiz tutmak için çıkardığı zaman dikkatle hep aynı noktaya, şapkasının yanıbaşına koymak adetindeydi. Hepsi bu kadar. Monsieur Grandet hakkında Sauma'da bundan fazla bir şey bilinmezdi"

Honore de Balzac | Eugenie Grandet

[reading-marika]

Aspettando l'Autunno Book Tag

Ciao a tutti!! Questa settimana vi propongo un nuovo book tag trovato sul Book Tube. Oggi parliamo di autunno, in particolare vi mostro libri già letti e libri che vorrei leggere con vibes autunnali. Scrivetemi pure i vostri titoli autunnali!! Buona lettura!!

Pioggia: un libro che leggeresti volentieri cullato dal ticchettio della pioggia sul tetto.

"Il Sospetto" di Friedrich Durrenmatt è un romanzo breve che lessi lo scorso anno, proprio nel periodo autunnale e ricordo di averlo apprezzato moltissimo anche per le vibes tetre che pone al lettore. Perfetto da leggere in una giornata piovosa.

Foliage: un libro dalle diverse sfaccettature.

Passiamo, ora, alla letteratura americana del novecento con "Giovanni's Room", o "La Stanza di Giovanni", di James Baldwin. Questo romanzo narra di una relazione alquanto complicata tra due ragazzi a Parigi, ma questo è solo il punto di partenza che l'autore usa per poter parlare di ben altro: la società dell'epoca, la libertà personale, la solitudine.

Autunno, Dove Sei?: nomina quattro libri che non vedi l’ora di leggere quando arriverà la stagione.

Sono molto curiosa di proseguire il mio percorso di lettura degli autori Thomas Hardy e Victor Hugo con, rispettivamente, "Estremi Rimedi" e "Notre-dame de Paris". Parlando sempre di classici, vorrei approcciarmi ad André Gide con la sua ultima opera "I Falsari". Infine, cambiando completamente genere, vorrei proseguire con la trilogia Farseer di Robin Hobb, leggendo il secondo volume "Royal Assassin".

Tè e Tisana: un libro che scalda il cuore.

"I Dolori del Giovane Werther" di Goethe può sembrare un libro triste, e lo è, ma nella sua tristezza porta molto calore. Questo è un romanzo estremamente interiore, che parla di solitudine, di amore, di morte. Non ci si sente soli, ci si sente capiti e a propria volta si capisce.

Castagne: un libro che all’inizio ci sembrava un po’ spinoso, difficile ma che poi si è rivelato coinvolgente.

"Assassin's Apprentice" di Robin Hobb è il primo volume della trilogia Farseer (che apre una saga infinita); per me questa è stata una lettura alquanto impegnativa, in particolar modo per l'inglese che non ho trovato così facile come mi aspettavo. Una volta, però, abituatami allo stile, la lettura è diventata molto più scorrevole. Per quanto riguarda la trama, invece, questa mi ha catturato sin da subito, un po' intricata, ma decisamente accattivante.

Candele Profumate: un libro dalla forte atmosfera autunnale.

Nonostante "Eugenie Grandet" di Balzac sia ambientato in più anni e, quindi, in più stagioni, mi ha trasmesso molte vibes autunnali. Che dire di questo romanzo, si incentra sulla figura femminile di Eugenie Grandet, personaggio che non segue perfettamente i canoni di quell'epoca e, di conseguenza, molto interessante.

Zucca: un mattone da leggere in autunno.

Qui, vi cito due libri, uno letto e uno da leggere. "L'Uomo che Ride" di Victor Hugo è un romanzo gotico estremamente drammatico, ma con un messaggio potentissimo e perfetto per l'autunno. Invece, questo autunno mi piacerebbe affrontare la sfida di "Guerra e Pace" di Tolstoj, ma vedremo in seguito come va...

Halloween: un libro che vuoi leggere quest’anno per halloween.

Non ho mai letto romanzi horror, ma quest'anno mi voglio buttare, perciò mi sono già preparata in libreria "Abbiamo Sempre Vissuto nel Castello" di Shirley Jackson, autrice ben conosciuta del novecento. Non so nulla di questo romanzo, come d'altronde di ogni romanzo che devo ancora leggere, e non so minimamente cosa aspettarmi.

Giacca: libro che hai da un po’ in libreria e che aspetti di leggere proprio in autunno.

È da Natale 2022 che attendo il suo momento e, per me, il suo momento è l'autunno. Sto parlando di "Spiriti e Creature del Giappone" illustrato da Benjamin Lacombe. Una raccolta di racconti giapponesi su creature mistiche, cosa c'è di meglio per una lettura autunnale!!

[kitaplarinicindeyasayankiz]

"sararmış bir ince dalsın, ama ben sarıyı severim."

[forest-enchantress]

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✦Carla Juri

Paula 2016 — under development

✦César Domboy

Eugenie Grandet 2021— under development

✦Callum Turner

Victor Frankenstein 2015 — part 1

✦Cate Blanchett

An Ideal Husband 1999 — under development Bordertown 1995 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 Elizabeth 1998 — under development Oscar and Lucinda 1997 — under development Robin Hood 2010 — under development

✦Charity Wakefield

Sense and Sensibility 2008 — (690 x 388px), (300 x 169px)

✦Charlie Rowe

Never let me go — part 1, part 2 Vanity Fair 2018 — under development

✦Chiara Mastroianni

Augustine 2012 — part 1, part 2 Linhas de Wellington 2012 — under development Marcel Proust's Time Regained 1999 — under development

✦Christian Bale

Little Women 1994 — part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 — under development The Prestige 2006 — under development

✦Christoph Waltz

Dorian 2003 — under development Fire and Sword — (690 x 388px), (300 x 169px) Parole Chicago 1979— (598 x 448px), (300 x 225px)

[nonsopropriocomedefinirmi]

Eugenie Grandet, Balzac. L'ho letto con piacere e riconosco la bravura tecnica dell'autore, in particolare le descrizioni e i personaggi sono magistrali. D'altro canto non posso non ammettere che dopo averlo finito ho pensato "e allora?"

[craftingtheclassics]

You ask me for details about Victor Hugo: Victor Hugo is an extremely brilliant man; of as much wit as poetry. He is most fascinating in conversation, a little like [Alexander] Humboldt, but superior, and more amenable to dialogue. He is full of bourgeois ideas. He execrates Racine, whom he considers a secondary man. He's mad on that point. There's more good than evil in him--though the good is an outcome of vanity and all things are deeply calculated in him--he is, in the main, a charming man, besides being the great poet that he is. He has lost much of his quality, force, and value by the life he leads.

Honoré de Balzac describes fellow author and close friend, Victor Hugo, to his future wife, Eveline Hańska, in a letter dated July 3, 1840.