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Lewis Percy

Lewis Percy

Anita Brookner

Random House Inc
1991
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Anita Brookner is justly famous for her elegant, almost Jamesian character studies of women poised on the threshold of life. But in Lewis Percy, she performs a remarkable leap of imaginative empathy in her portrayal of a man torn between the reassuring cloister of the library and the alluring but terrifying world of the senses, a world populated by women who persist in bewildering him. "Each new Brookner novel...guarantees the pleasures of a mature intelligence, felicitous language, quirky humor, intensely believable characters, bitter-sweet karma and shapely narrative....A brilliantly executed novel."-- Phillip Lopate,The New York Times Book Review"Anita Brookner never ceases to surprise. In this sly and delectable fiction...an artist has extended her range."-Boston Globe"Confirms Anita Brookner's reputation as a novelist....There is a solemn felicity, a classical sense of fairness inherent in Lewis Percy. This, with the author's sane humor, told in her elegant, lucid prose, combines to make something truly remarkable."-- San Francisco Chronicle
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William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven

William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven

Ashgate Publishing Limited
2006
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William Percy's Mahomet and His Heaven (1601) is extraordinary. Not only is it the only early modern play purportedly based upon the Qur'an, but it is also the first to place the Prophet Muhammad on the stage. While there existed a remarkable range of texts concerning Islamic characters and themes in Renaissance England, from chronicles and pamphlets to popular drama, the publication of this edition of Mahomet and His Heaven represents a major step forward in the study of Islam on the early modern stage. Roughly contemporary with Shakespeare's Othello, William Percy makes the remarkable and potentially highly provocative gesture of locating the Prophet as its central character, presiding over an apocalyptic drought to chastise the sins of mankind. The play takes place in around the mosques of 'Medina' and the action mirrors early Christian 'translations' of the Qur'an, the Islamic holy text that was rarely available in England at the time. Furthermore, the play provides a fascinating insight into the way that Islamic characters were portrayed on the early modern stage, containing as it does remarkably detailed stage directions, stipulating for example that the Prophet wears 'all greene and greene his Turban' and that his Angels are 'rainbow powdered'. Such details offer an entirely new perspective upon this aspect of early modern stagecraft. Matthew Dimmock presents here the play in its entirety, with a critical introduction which introduces some of its key themes, and places it in a textual and social context. A section of detailed explanatory scholarly notes follow the play, containing a full translation of the short Latin sections and references to the many political and literary parallels. This book should be required reading for historians, literary scholars and students dealing with notions of race, religion, magic, astrology and stagecraft in early modern England.
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Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley

Andre Maurois

Cybirdy Publishing Limited
2025
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As one of the major Romantic poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley was not only a genius but a rebellious British aristocrat. He wanted to live according to his values. However, both his family and the establishment cast him aside for his ideas. In 1822, he tragically died at the young age of 29 when his sailing boat sank off the coast of Viareggio, Italy.Ariel ou la vie de Shelley, a French well-documented fictional biography by André Maurois told Shelley's tragic story with a respectful sense of authenticity together with elegant poetic flair. First published in 1923, the biography met immediate success in both France and England.This new unabridged translation by Alix Daniel, illustrated with audacity by the London artist Anwot brings back to life the original work for the reader to follow the rebellious life of Shelley from his schooling at Eton College to his complicated adult life in the company of Mary Shelley, his second wife, Lord Byron and other artists and thinkers of the time.Ariel Percy Bysshe Shelley is an unusual but fascinating read for anyone eager to discover what could have been the life and death of the prodigy poet, known as the Mad Shelley at Eton College, loved and admired by Lord Byron and referred more than 100 years after his death as "one of the most advance sceptical intellects ever to write a poem" by the great American literary critic Harold Bloom. In 1923, André Maurois biography met immediate success, so much so that later on, Allen Lane chose its translation by Ella D'Arcy for the first ever Penguin's title. There again, the work met immediate success with 60 000 copies sold the first year.André Maurois biography has been re-edited many times not only by Grasset, but also by the edition E.G Mornay, Calman-Levy, Club français du Livre and Rombaldi. Alix Daniel's translation is its second unabridged translation.
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