Paul Verlaine - Selected Poems (Paperback) University of California Press, 1961 Translation of selected poems.             A Simple Soul7 reviews Gustave Flaubert Book Jungle, 2008 Simple, realistic language - metaphysical result + Short But Powerful and Impressive + Literary pointillism + A Masterpiece + great             Germinal (Penguin Classics)50 reviews Émile Zola Penguin Classics, 2004 Book Sales + superb political and social analysis of working class + Zola Fan + Utterly fantastic.... + Accurate: Captured the Spirit!             Master Builder (Dover Thrift Editions)2 reviews Henrik Ibsen Dover Publications, 2001 "One of these days the younger generation will come knocking at my door." + Wonderful. Written in 1892, when Ibsen was a mature playwright, this tension-filled play focuses on an older man's fear that he will be replaced by the younger generation before he has been able to reconcile his professional success with his personal sacrifices. Halvard Solness is a Master Builder who once ...             Salammbo (aka Salambo)1 review Gustave Flaubert Mondial, 2006 From the publisher 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, Flaubert paid a visit to Carthage. The novel Salammbo, published in 1862, interweaves ...             Les amours jaunes Tristan Corbière, Yves Leclair Seuil, 1992             Selected Poetry and Prose1 review Stephane Mallarme New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982 Charting The Depths Of A Man's Soul. This offers in startling detail the great French poets works in their variety.From the beautiful & exquisite lyricism of "Herodiade" to the vivid cathartic experience of "Igitur" & finally to the innovative & experimental "Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance".This also contains of course his ...             Peer Gynt (Oberon Classics)9 reviews Henrik Ibsen Oberon Books, 2008 The Charm of a Trickster... + Original play Peer Gynt is a piece of literature that, like Goethe's Faust Part II plays best on the stage of the imagination. It is too lengthy and costly to be performed on stage. Sometimes the first three acts are performed together, sometimes the last two acts are brought together to become a whole for a ...             Burns: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)3 reviews Robert Burns Everyman's Library, 2007 The other Bard + Robert Burns has still got it! + An edition good enough for gift giving Robert Burns may not be well known outside of Scotland, but he certainly deserves to be. Sadly, Burns too often gets shoved aside to make room for the English Romantic heavywieghts like Bryon, Blake, Shelley, Keats and Wordsworth, and if he does get mentioned in an anthology or classroom, it's ...             Paris Spleen (New Directions Paperbook)6 reviews Charles Baudelaire New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970 Baudelaire Vents His Spleen at the Outside World + Baudelaire's sensitivity and despair revealed + The classic translation. + poems in prose + Make sure to get the Varese translation!             The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)52 reviews Stendhal Penguin Classics, 2002 "Hypocrisy is the respect vice pays to virtue." + Surprisingly modern voice + Still the most charismatic novel ever written Hypocrisy, or "frontin," is one of the least respected vices today. However, hypocrisy was much worse during the Victorian age, where its exaggerated concern for the external appearance of virtue led to insincerity and deception. This concept is brilliantly exemplified in The Red and the Black, a ...             The Ghost Sonata (A Play) August Strindberg S. French, 1999 Translated by Harry G. Carlson             Love (Penguin Classics)5 reviews Stendhal, B. C. J. G Knight Penguin Classics, 1975 An astounding, eternal classic + A philosophical and elaborate study of love + "The only remedy for love is to love more " + The 'Cold Philosopher' Analyses Reproductive Behavior + The first 'Pale Fire'.             Waverley: or 'Tis Sixty Years Since (Oxford World's Classics)12 reviews Walter Scott Oxford University Press, USA, 1998 A Geste of Waverly + WAVERLEY: THE FIRST HISTORICAL NOVEL, THE FIRST POLITICAL NOVEL + Like Reading K2, But Worthwhile + The ultimate coming-of-age novel + Interesting critique of romantic tendencies             Redgauntlet3 reviews Walter Scott IndyPublish, 2008 The last of the Jacobites + The muted sunset of the Stuart Dynasty of Scotland and England + Fictional historical fiction from the Scottish master Redgauntlet is generally considered to be one of Scott's best novels. It is set in 1765 and returns to the theme of his first novel Waverley, describing an attempt to overthrow the Hanoverian monarchy and return Britain to the rule of the exiled Stuarts. Of course there was no Jacobite rising in ...             The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)33 reviews Stendhal Modern Library, 2000 Try the Mauldon translation + A classic Rater25's comment on the disappointing new Sturrock translation doesn't take into account Margaret Mauldon's version for Oxford, which I found delightful & without Howard's howlers. Hard to find on shelves, but hey, that's why there's Amazon. Ordinary novels pall after reading Stendhal.             The Prelude: A Parallel Text (Penguin Classics)2 reviews William Wordsworth Penguin Classics, 1996 It was for this.... + an all-star book "A good deal of [Wordsworth's poetry], perhaps most of it, is very dull, like a long walk on a grey day. But just as somewhere on that walk there might be a sudden and superb flash of beauty, so in Wordsworth's poetry there are short passages, perhaps only a line or so, that are miraculous. An ...             The Tale of Old Mortality (Penguin Classics)4 reviews Walter Scott Penguin Classics, 2000 An Outstanding Work of Historical Fiction + Extremists generate all the excitement. But moderates ultimately prevail. + Scott at his best + Scott's greatest novel, in an authoritative edition.             The Heart of Mid-Lothian7 reviews Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh University Press, 2001 The Development of Calvinistic Piety + Bestselling from Philadelphia to St.Petersburg + A Tedious Classic + Great Scott             The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy August Strindberg BiblioBazaar, 2006 ENGLISH VERSION BY GRAHAM RAWSON; WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GUNNAR OLLÉN