The Divine Comedy

FROM THE FRENCH BY CLARA DELL WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY THE EARL OF CREWE A FRONTISPIECE AND NUMEROUS OTHER PORTRAITS WITH DESCRIPTIVE NOTES BY OCTAVE UZANNE P. F. COLLIER cV SON NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, I9O2 BY D. APPCETON fc COMPANY GUY DE MAUPASSANT In the long portrait-gallery of men of letters there are many figures, including some of the most famous, which in one aspect, at any rate, have baffled the analysis of countless critics. The rela-

A I R E Avant-propos p. 4 Unit 1 MYTH OR REALITY? p. 9 Unit 2 THE SWINGING SIXTIES p. 27 Unit 3 A MAN’S WORLD? p. 50 Unit 4 BRAVE NEW WORLD? p. 79 Unit 5 THE LAND OF TWO HALVES p. 99 Unit 6 WHICH IS WITCH? p. 116 Unit 7 A COMMON GROUND p. 134 Unit 8 BORDERLANDS p. 159 Unit 9 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH p. 196 Unit 10 THE POWER OF MONEY p. 233 Unit 11 HIGHER, FASTER, STRONGER p. 250 Unit 12 THE CORRIDORS OF POWER p. 278 Unit 13 DIXIELAND p. 293 Unit 14 BUILDERS

R. Dodds, On misunderstanding to Oedipus rex (Asupra interpretării greşite a piesei „Oedipus rex"), Greece Rome, Oxford, XIII, 1966, pp. 37-39. Poziţia contrară apare în lucrarea lui T. Gould, The innocence of Oedipus. The philosopher on Oedipus the King. (Nevinovăţia lui Edip. Filozoful despre Regele Edip) Arion, IV, 1965 şi V, 1966. 14 / TRAGEDIA GREACA Cu siguranţă, unul dintre resorturile tragicului este folosirea acestei libertăţi care duce la nenorocire

America Séquence 2 > From East to West Séquence 3 > From Africa to America Séquence 4 > Lafayette we are here Séquence 5 > Rule Britannia Séquence 6 > From the end of the British Empire to Europe Séquence 7 > South Africa and English-Speaking Africa Séquence 8 > The power of the EnglishSpeaking world today ...................................................................... 95 .......................................................................

Comparatismes en Sorbonne n° 1 Février 2010 TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Études réunies par Audrey Giboux Edward Burne-Jones, The Wheel of Fortune, 1883 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Comparatismes en Sorbonne n° 1 Février 2010 TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? Études réunies par Audrey Giboux TRADITION, MODERNITÉ : UN ÉTERNEL RETOUR ? REMERCIEMENTS Ce recueil d’articles est issu du colloque qui s’est déroulé

Novels The New York Trilogy (City of Glass • Ghosts • The Locked Room) • In the Country of Last Things • Moon Palace • The Music of Chance • Leviathan • Mr. Vertigo • Timbuktu • The Book of Illusions • Oracle Night Nonfiction White Spaces • The Invention of Solitude • The Art of Hunger • Why Write? • Hand to Mouth • The Red Notebook • Collected Prose Screenplays 3 Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge Poetry Unearth • Wall Writing • Fragments from Cold • Facing the Music •

Stories, by Various 1 Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various Project Gutenberg's The Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Best American Humorous Short Stories Author: Various Release Date: February 5, 2004 [EBook #10947]

Dictionary 3 French−english (dictionnaire) à : to, toward, towards à−propos : relevance à califourchon : astride à droite : right, right, to the right à la hussarde : brusque à la maison : at home à long terme : long term à perpétuité : lifelong à plaisir : unfounded, unfound, unprovoked, groundless à poil : naked, nude à point : done à propos : for the time being à quoi : hywhy, wherefore à ras : bald à rebours : wrong à regret : reluctantly, unwillingly à temps : on time, timely à tire larigot

long, 18 ponts, 150 000 tonneaux de jauge brute (deux fois le France) qui va fournir aux Chantiers huit millions d’heures de travail, sera livré dans deux ans ! Il en avait fallu cinq pour construire le France, 29 mois pour construire le Sovereign of the port SDV opérations portuaires décentralise son siège à Nantes SDV, la division transport du groupe Bolloré, transfère à Nantes, dans la zone de Cheviré, sa direction des opérations portuaires Europe (OPE) jusqu’alors installée en région parisienne

pages] within the space of four months, forming two separate novels, of which I will write one in the morning and the other in the evening, and to finish them by a fixed deadline. Do you know, my dear Anna Vasilievna, that even now such eccentric and extraordinary things utterly delight me. I simply don't fit into the category of staid and conventional people . . .” In this typically ebullient fashion, Dostoevsky described to a friend the predicament he found himself in during the summer of 1866