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The Princess of Montpensier (novella) The Princess of Montpensier. (novella) Frontispiece, first edition. The Princess of Montpensier is a short novel by Madame de La Fayette [1] which came out anonymously in 1662 as her first published work. It is regarded not only as one of the first modern novels in French, [2] but also as both the prototype ...
978-1-4391-4893-8. The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-shek and the Birth of Modern China is a 2009 biography of Soong Mei-ling, wife of Kuomintang leader and President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek written by Hannah Pakula. The book was widely reviewed as extensively researched and strongly put forward the argument that Madame ...
Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer who was temporarily married to a Japanese woman while he was stationed in Nagasaki, Japan. It closely follows the journal he kept of one-month paid relationship with Kiku (Chrysanthemum) in the Jūzenji ( 十善寺 ) neighbourhood ...
Madame Bovary ( / ˈboʊvəri /; [1] French: [madam bɔvaʁi] ), originally published as Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners ( French: Madame Bovary: Mœurs de province [madam bɔvaʁi mœʁ (s) də pʁɔvɛ̃s] ), is a novel by French writer Gustave Flaubert, published in 1857. The eponymous character lives beyond her means in order to escape ...
Release. June 23, 2023. ( 2023-06-23) I'm a Virgo is an American absurdist comedy miniseries created by Boots Riley and starring Jharrel Jerome. The first four episodes premiered at the South by Southwest film festival in March 2023. All seven episodes were released on Amazon Prime Video on June 23, 2023.
Incidents in the Life of Madame Blavatsky: compiled from information supplied by her relatives and friends is a book originally published in 1886 in London; [1] [2] it was compiled by a member of the Theosophical Society, A. P. Sinnett, who was the first biographer of H. P. Blavatsky (née Hahn). [3] Sinnett describes the many unusual incidents ...
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 's first major work and a key text in her Theosophical movement . The work has often been criticized as a plagiarized occult work, with scholars noting how Blavatsky ...
Maigret is a British television series made by the BBC and which – following a pilot episode broadcast in 1959 – ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963. [1] Based on the Maigret stories of Georges Simenon, the series starred Rupert Davies in the title role. Unlike most BBC series produced in the 1960s, all episodes (bar the pilot) have ...