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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Laurence Stapleton
"Laurence Albani" par Paul Bourget. Paul Bourget tait un crivain fran ais (1852-1935).
Laurence Albani est issue d'une famille pauvre de paysans. Elle passe quelques ann es aupr s d'une Lady anglaise qui va lui faire conna tre un autre monde. Au d c s de cette derni re, Laurence retourne la campagne, aupr s de sa famille. Elle y retrouve Pascal et Pierre, tous deux amoureux d'elle. Son coeur h site entre le fermier et l'homme de la ville, mais les circonstances de la vie vont lui permettre de choisir sans h sitation.
Laurence Albani est issue d'une famille pauvre de paysans. Elle passe quelques ann es aupr s d'une Lady anglaise qui va lui faire conna tre un autre monde. Au d c s de cette derni re, Laurence retourne la campagne, aupr s de sa famille. Elle y retrouve Pascal et Pierre, tous deux amoureux d'elle. Son coeur h site entre le fermier et l'homme de la ville, mais les circonstances de la vie vont lui permettre de choisir sans h sitation.
Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton: The Lives and Careers of Britain's Most Famous Shakespearean Actors
Charles River
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Histoires Extraordinaires de Laurence Soldermann: recueil de nouvelles
Laurence Soldermann
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2016
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Une traque, une passe, des bats, l'autre aboie, une meute et une meute de chiens de chasse. Attaques pr cises, Laurence Soldermann amasse les proies d biles, prises dans le traquenard du chasseur la moustache jaune, au rire r sonnant et odieux, fier n vros , qui fait d camper comme une avalanche, une dizaine de lapins, deux trois renards, cinq cerfs aux bois joyeux. Ce recueil de nouvelles propose un passage douloureux vers la mort, a d tale toutes jambes, quadrup des fuyant, fon ant tout droit dans la gueule du moustachu ventru, bedonnant, de l'ogre aux milles dents, qui croque, d chire, mastique la chaire animale, si fra che, si pure. Avec des pauses qui s'en d lectent, d lice de la vie, myst re de la nature qui fait na tre des petits tres dodus, app tissants, aux muscles tendres et la graisse go tue, qui passent dans son ventre, engloutis gloutonnement pour atteindre enfin l'ultime s r nit du repu.
" ...Un atome, une tincelle, voil en effet le g nie de Sterne. Tout chez lui est l' tat microscopique, petits personnages, petits caract res, petite philosophie, petites m thodes. Et les motions qu'il fait na tre sont du m me ordre que ses peintures et ses r cits; son petit monde de figurines r veille en nous tout un petit peuple de sentiments microscopiques. Mon Dieu comme ses acteurs sont exigus Serait-ce cependant parce qu'il leur faut peu de place qu'ils se logent si bien dans la m moire ? Toujours est-il qu'une fois qu'ils y ont p n tr , ils n'en sortent plus, et que l'oncle Toby, M. Shandy, le caporal Trim, le docteur Slop, l' ne de Lyon et celui de Nampont, restent dans le souvenir aussi obstin ment que les h ros les plus renomm s du drame et du roman. Il n'est pas en son pouvoir d'ouvrir en vous le r servoir des larmes et de les faire couler flots: tout ce qu'il peut faire, c'est d'en amener au bord de vos paupi res une ou deux qu'il va chercher, on ne sait comment, dans de petits lacs int rieurs que lui seul conna t; mais ces quelques larmes sont de vraies larmes, telles que le g nie seul sait en attirer dans les yeux nobles, et non cette ros e banale que les productions de la sentimentalit font jaillir des yeux du vulgaire. Il n'a pas davantage la force de frapper de grands coups: il se contente de vous pincer finement comme pourrait le faire une main d'enfant; mais, chose curieuse, la douleur de cette meurtrissure persiste avec une obstination singuli re qui rappelle ces blessures imperceptibles et tenaces que font, au dire des savants en d monologie, les f es et les lutins ceux dont ils veulent tirer vengeance..."
A Sentimental Journey Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels through France and Italy. (Sterne met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.)
Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton: The Lives and Careers of Britain's Most Famous Shakespearean Actors
Charles River
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2017
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*Includes pictures *Includes the actors' quotes about their lives and careers *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Of all the great actors of the 20th century, none personifies acting royalty more than Laurence Olivier, and some of this is simply due to the fact that he was actually knighted in 1947, along with a lengthy list of other honors that include being named a life peer in 1970 and admission to the Order of Merit in 1984. To speak of The Right Honourable Lord Laurence Olivier is not a figure of speech but rather a fact. Of course, in addition to the literal sense of the term, there is undeniably a manner in which Laurence Olivier qualifies as acting royalty, as it is not for nothing that Spencer Tracy once referred to Olivier as "the greatest actor in the English-speaking world" (Bacall). It is also important to note that Tracy refers to Olivier not as a film or theater actor specifically, because much of Olivier's lofty standing derives from his ability to successfully navigate different mediums like stage, film, and television. The breadth of mediums in which he worked, the various roles he inhabited within them (actor, producer, director), and the formidable time span of his career lend Olivier's career a scope of perhaps unmatched magnitude. Indeed, Laurence Olivier worked for so long and was so successful that few actors receive the level of visibility that he still enjoys, even more than two decades after his death. While his theatrical performances exist only as memories, his cinematic adaptations of several of Shakespeare's most famous plays remain the most canonical even to this day. Hamlet, for example, has been produced for the screen by several famous directors, but his version, released in 1948, is the most well-known and best-received. It is through his films that viewers also gain a full appreciation of his creative style, as Olivier assumed full authorial control (from actor to director to producer) over many of his films, particularly the Shakespearean ones. In this sense, it is appropriate to claim that Laurence Olivier was not only a storied actor but also an artist who worked best when enjoying full authority over his productions. In the 1960s, the most popular actor in the world was Richard Burton, a hard-drinking Welshman who was nevertheless so professional that he was one of the preeminent stage performers of his day. In fact, he performed Shakespeare so magnificently that he was compared to British legend Laurence Olivier, and that success ultimately led to a film career that earned him 7 Academy Award nominations, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for Best Actor. Given his accomplishments on the stage and in Hollywood, Burton became one of the world's most recognizable leading men, so it seemed fitting that he engaged in one of Hollywood's most legendary romances with Elizabeth Taylor while on the set of Cleopatra, one of the era's most notorious movies. In fact, his tumultuous relationship with Taylor, which included two marriages, dominated tabloids and remains the one thing most people associate with Burton today, despite the rest of his accomplishments. Burton's high-profile marriage to Taylor helped bring attention, but it also led to more self-destructive behavior, and in a sense it represented the peak of Burton's career. Over the last decade of his life, Burton began appearing in mediocre films, and due to his declining health and constant drunkenness, his performances were mediocre as well, often involving incoherent slurring. The fast life ultimately caught up with him in 1984, when a cerebral hemorrhage killed him at the age of 58. Fittingly, it was the same cause of death that befell his alcoholic father in 1957, just as Burton was at the precipice of Hollywood stardom.
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
Rutgers University Press
2021
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Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
Rutgers University Press
2021
sidottu
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.
Laurence Carr's Paradise Loft is a collection of poems that explores time. Paradise Loft is a collection that explores time. Countless writers have shown how time affects the characters within their narra- tives: Proust, perhaps at the centerpiece, with In Search of Lost Time, Virginia Woolf with The Waves and Orlando, and the over- looked but intriguing Lord Dunsany fantasy-romance, The Kingof Elfland's Daughter. In Paradise Loft, poems are arranged into nine sections beginning with a prologue: "God's Diary/Day 5", a timeless timeframe. It is followed by "Wording/Morning", thoughts on morning writing; "Journeyman I", a sequence of time-travels; "Feline Dreams" on the afterlives of cats, ending with the mid-20th century romance, "The Ballad of Henrietta Pussycat and Her Lover Thief Coyote." Next, "Even She" are studies, much like an artist might keep in a sketchbook. The prose poems in "time past" bring up collected memories that have lingered long enough to record. "Journeyman II" continues the time-travels, and "Wording/Eve- ning" shows the end of day grasping at end of day thoughts. The book closes with "in time" seven bilingual dreamscapes conjure themselves between two and seven A.M. and bring on a new beginning.
