Author: Gustave Courbet
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: courbet, gustave, letters
Number of Pages: 733
Published: 1992-03-15
List price: $91.00
ISBN-10: 0226116530
ISBN-13: 9780226116532

The French Realist painter Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pivotal figure in the emergence of modern painting, remains an artist whose interests, attitudes, and friendships are little understood. A voluminous correspondent, Courbet himself, through his letters, offers a tantalizing avenue toward a keener assessment of his character and accomplishments. In her critical edition of over six hundred of the artist’s letters, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu presents just such a look at the inner life of the artist; her unparalleled feat of gathering together all of Courbet’s

Author: Gustave Le Bon
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: crowd
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2002-01-08
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0486419568
ISBN-13: 9780486419565

One of the greatest and most influential books of social psychology ever written, brilliantly instructive on the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much more. A must-read volume not only for students of history, sociology, law and psychology, but for every politician, statesman, investor, and marketing manager.

Author: Gustave Le Bon
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: crowd
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 141915821X
ISBN-13: 9781419158216

. Under certain given circumstances, and only under those circumstances, an agglomeration of men presents new characteristics very different from those of the individuals composing it. The sentiments and ideas of all the persons in the gathering take one and the same direction, and their conscious personality vanishes. A collective mind is formed, doubtless transitory, but presenting very clearly defined characteristics.

Author: Gustave Droz
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: novel, babolain
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $28.75
ISBN-10: 0559714734
ISBN-13: 9780559714733

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ed without: we have chains on our feet and laurels in our pockets. I rushed into study as one throws himself into the water, from despair, and did so well that, after a few months labor, I was at the head of the class. Then the cruelties to which I had been compelled to submit gradually ceased, and they contented themselves with making fun of me. What a sensation of comfort I felt! One Sunday evening—I

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Mondial
Keywords: salambo, aka, salammbo
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2006-02-21
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1595690352
ISBN-13: 9781595690357

The novel Salammbo (published in 1862) interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place before and during the Mercenary Revolt, an uprising of mercenaries in the employ of Carthage in the 3rd century BC. --- An unfinished opera by Modest Mussorgsky, a silent film by Pierre Marodon and a play by Charles Ludlam are among the many adaptations of Flaubert’s novel. --- Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880), famous French novelist, known for his endless search for "le mot juste" (the precise word); author of Madame Bovary (1857). In 1858, in order to gather material for Salammbo,

Author: Charles Paul De Kock
Publisher: Gleed Pre
Keywords: vol, gustave
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2008-08-25
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 144371318X
ISBN-13: 9781443713184

Gustave; Vol I. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Gustave Flaubert
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: bovary, madame
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-06-17
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 1419131915
ISBN-13: 9781419131912

Gustave Flaubert’s tale of adultery and destruction.