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Memoirs of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar

The Emperor Hadrian writes a valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his accession, military triumphs, love of poetry and music, and…

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Coup De Grace

Marguerite Yourcenar

English translation originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

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Alexis

Marguerite Yourcenar

It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created…

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A Blue Tale and Other Stories

Marguerite Yourcenar

This story collection is a welcome port of entry for any reader not yet familiar with Marguerite Yourcenar's works.

Published to great acclaim in France in 1993, this collection is…

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Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

Keith Bradley

This book offers a critical appreciation of Marguerite Yourcenar's historical novel Mmoires d'Hadrien as an authentic portrait of a Roman emperor.

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The Environment and Marguerite Yourcenar

Rodney Mearns

This study is the first full-length discussion of Le Labyrinthe du monde by Marguerite Yourcenar along environmental lines. Yourcenar emerges as an insightful writer with an important contemporary message, responsive…

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Written in Stone

Roger Caillois, Marguerite Yourcenar, Carlo Ossola

Never-before-seen photographs of Roger Caillois' collection of semiprecious stones

The volume combines Art, Nature, and Literature

Deluxe edition for bibliophiles, silk binding

Even though they belong to the Mineral Kingdom…

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Coin in Nine Hands

Marguerite Yourcenar

During the space of a day in Rome in 1933, a ten-lira coin passes through the hands of nine people - including an aging artist, a prostitute, and a young…

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Fiche de lecture Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet)

Marguerite Yourcenar

La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir des Memoires de Marguerite Yourcenar grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee. La redaction, claire…

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Fires

Marguerite Yourcenar

Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly…

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Fiche de lecture L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet)

Marguerite Yourcenar

La collection Connaitre une oeuvre vous offre la possibilite de tout savoir de L'OEuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar, grace a une fiche de lecture aussi complete que detaillee. La…

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Two Lives and a Dream

Marguerite Yourcenar

Set in Rembrandt’s Amsterdam, An Obscure Man is the story of Nathanael-innocent, open to experience-born like Everyman upon the stream of life. In A Lovely Morning, Nathanael’s young son joins…

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Oriental Tales

Marguerite Yourcenar

From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling. – Kirkus Reviews.

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Opus Nigrum / The Abyss

Marguerite Yourcenar

Ambientada en la Europa del siglo XVI, Opus nigrum narra el tragico destino de un hombre excepcional y nos hace revivir la fascinante epoca que va de la Edad Media…

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That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Marguerite Yourcenar

This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the…

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Memoirs Of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar

Hadrian, approaching death, writes a valedictory letter to the young Marcus Aurelius, next-but-one in the line of succession. Hadrian describes his accession and explains the philosophy that informed his rule…

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Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual

Nigel Saint

By subverting some of Marguerite Yourcenar’s own accounts of her work and engaging with developments in the fields of art history and critical theory, this book offers different directions in…

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L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre)

Marguerite Yourcenar

Venez decouvrir L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux…

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Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre)

Marguerite Yourcenar

Venez decouvrir les Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar grace a une analyse litteraire de reference ! Ecrite par un specialiste universitaire, cette fiche de lecture est recommandee par de nombreux…

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The Abyss

Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the…

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Cuentos Orientales

Professor Marguerite Yourcenar

El mitico Oriente de la mano de una de las escritoras mas importantes del siglo XX se descubre a traves de la esencia de los cuentos legendarios de lugares como…

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A Coin in Nine Hands

Professor Marguerite Yourcenar

Set in Rome in 1933, the central tale of this book tells of a failed attempt to assassinate Mussolini. Around it are woven the stories of nine characters, drawing a…

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Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA: From Prophecy to Protest- With a previously unpublished interview of Marguerite Yourcenar by T. D. Allman

Berengere Deprez

Although Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) lived in the US for almost fifty years and became an American citizen in 1947, few people understand the influence her experiences in the United States…

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Marguerite Yourcenar - Ecriture, Maternite, Demiurgie: 2e Tirage

Berengere Deprez

On a souvent presente Marguerite Yourcenar comme peu ou pas concernee par la maternite, voire la feminite. Or, si l'on y regarde de pres, on decouvre le caractere eminemment maternel…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, Alejo Carpentier: Ecritures de l'Histoire

Fabienne Viala

Parfaitement contemporains l'un de l'autre, Marguerite Yourcenar et Alejo Carpentier ne se sont jamais lus. Ils ont pourtant interroge avec la meme passion les modalites poetiques d'ecriture de l'histoire, tant…

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We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

Joan E. Howard

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Yourcenar’s novel Memoirs of Hadrian in 1954. This work…

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We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

Joan E. Howard

Grace Frick introduced English-language readers all over the world to the distinguished French author Marguerite Yourcenar with her award-winning translation of Memoirs of Hadrian. European biographies of Yourcenar have often…

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Fires

Professor Marguerite Yourcenar

Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories are mingled with contemporary themes. Interspersed are highly…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Mireille Bremond

Here is a detailed investigation into the election of Marguerite Yourcenar to the Academie Francaise, the first woman to receive this honor: from the unprecedented media campaign that was set…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Mireille Bremond

This book is a nonpartisan and dispassionate investigation about the election of Marguerite Yourcenar to the Academie francaise, the first woman to receive this honor. It examines the media campaign…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Mireille Bremond

This book is a nonpartisan and dispassionate investigation about the election of Marguerite Yourcenar to the Academie francaise, the first woman to receive this honor. It examines the media campaign…

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Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Malgre Eux, Malgre Elle…

Mireille Bremond

This book is a nonpartisan and dispassionate investigation about the election of Marguerite Yourcenar to the Academie francaise, the first woman to receive this honor. It examines the media campaign…

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Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve de Marguerite Yourcenar. L'analyse de l'irreel

Louane Lamarche,Louane Lamarche

These Scolaire de l'annee 2011 dans le domaine Francais - Literature, OEuvres, note: 14 Punkte, langue: Francais, resume Faut-il donc que ce qui est le plus vrai, le meilleur ait…

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Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la litterature avec lePetitLitteraire.fr

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Que faut-il retenir des Memoires d'Hadrien, le roman historique au succes international ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez…

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Mystification et Creativite dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar: Cinq lectures genetiques

Beatrice Ness

This work is the first to analyze Marguerite Yourcenar’s fictional manuscripts collected by the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Beatrice Ness organizes her study into five main groups of manuscripts…

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Two Lives and a Dream

Professor Marguerite Yourcenar

This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert’s Trois Contes.

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Memorias de Adriano de Marguerite Yourcenar (Guia de lectura): Resumen y analisis completo

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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guia de lectura Memorias de Adriano, una de las obras maestras de Marguerite Yourcenar. En esta novela autobiografica ficticia, el emperador Adriano inicia un…

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Ecriture Du Pouvoir, Pouvoir de l'Ecriture: La Realite Sociale Et Politique Dans l'Oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar

Colloquium organized 3-5 November 2005 at the Dept. of French, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

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Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la litterature avec lePetitLitteraire.fr

Agnes Fleury,Lepetitlitteraire,Florence Balthasar

Decryptez Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve de Marguerite Yourcenar avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve, la nouvelle qui plonge les lecteurs dans un monde…

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L'OEuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Resume complet et analyse detaillee de l'oeuvre

Marie-Eve Furnemont,Lepetitlitteraire

Decryptez L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir de L'Oeuvre au noir, l'histoire d'un humaniste du XVIe siecle ? Retrouvez tout ce que…

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Memoirs of Hadrian

Coup De Grace

Alexis

A Blue Tale and Other Stories

Marguerite Yourcenar’s Hadrian

The Environment and Marguerite Yourcenar

Written in Stone

Coin in Nine Hands

Fiche de lecture Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet)

Fires

Fiche de lecture L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet)

Two Lives and a Dream

Oriental Tales

Opus Nigrum / The Abyss

That Mighty Sculptor, Time

Memoirs Of Hadrian

Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual

L'Oeuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre)

Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre)

The Abyss

Cuentos Orientales

A Coin in Nine Hands

Marguerite Yourcenar and the USA: From Prophecy to Protest- With a previously unpublished interview of Marguerite Yourcenar by T. D. Allman

Marguerite Yourcenar - Ecriture, Maternite, Demiurgie: 2e Tirage

Marguerite Yourcenar, Alejo Carpentier: Ecritures de l'Histoire

We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

We Met in Paris: Grace Frick and Her Life with Marguerite Yourcenar

Fires

Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Edition Revue Et Augmentee

Marguerite Yourcenar, Une Femme a l'Academie: Malgre Eux, Malgre Elle…

Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve de Marguerite Yourcenar. L'analyse de l'irreel

Memoires d'Hadrien de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la litterature avec lePetitLitteraire.fr

Mystification et Creativite dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marguerite Yourcenar: Cinq lectures genetiques

Two Lives and a Dream

Memorias de Adriano de Marguerite Yourcenar (Guia de lectura): Resumen y analisis completo

Ecriture Du Pouvoir, Pouvoir de l'Ecriture: La Realite Sociale Et Politique Dans l'Oeuvre de Marguerite Yourcenar

Comment Wang-Fo fut sauve de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Comprendre la litterature avec lePetitLitteraire.fr

L'OEuvre au noir de Marguerite Yourcenar (Analyse de l'oeuvre): Resume complet et analyse detaillee de l'oeuvre

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