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French Illusions
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Author : Linda Kovic-Skow
language : en
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Release Date : 2014-07-31
French Illusions written by Linda Kovic-Skow and has been published by eBook Partnership this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with categories.
It's 1979 and twenty-one-year-old Linda Kovic needs to learn a language fast in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a flight attendant. Broke yet determined, she chooses French immersion and contracts to become an au pair for a wealthy family in the Loire Valley. Yielding to poor judgment, she lies on her application and claims to speak basic French, confident she'll be forgiven once she arrives at the Chateau de Montclair. As she struggles to adapt to her challenging new environment with the hard-to-please Madame Dubois and her two incomprehensible children, Linda signs up and attends language classes at the local university. When she encounters, Adam, a handsome young student, her life becomes more complicated-much more complicated-adding fuel to her internal battle for independence. French Illusions: My Story as an American Au Pair in the Loire Valley is the first of two books based on the author's diaries.
French Illusions
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Author : Linda Kovic-Skow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-22
French Illusions written by Linda Kovic-Skow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Linda Kovic's story continues in From Tours to Paris - the final book in the French Illusions series based on her diaries from 1979 and 1980. Still determined to learn French and fulfill her dream of becoming an international flight attendant, she puts her disastrous stint as an au pair behind her and revels in newfound freedom in the city of Tours. She finds lodging, enrolls at a French institute, and spends eight glorious days with Adam before he leaves for the holidays. When he returns, his shocking announcement propels her in a different direction, eventually leading her to Paris. Join Linda as she struggles with money, faces challenges at school, and learns some tough lessons about love and life.
The Illusion
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Author : Pierre Corneille
language : en
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Release Date : 1994-10-01
The Illusion written by Pierre Corneille and has been published by Theatre Communications Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-10-01 with Drama categories.
“The most lavish and picturesque special effects are what come out of the mouths of the people onstage…Mr. Kushner makes words sing, swoon and somersault as no other living American playwright does.” –Ben Brantley, New York Times “Rapture comes naturally to playwright Tony Kushner, and in The Illusion, he plants a big swoony kiss on the lips of the theater.” –Nelson Pressley, Washington Post “[The Illusion] certainly has the stamp of Kushner’s delight in language. This is a modern interpretation, filled with energy, colour and humour.” –Telegraph (UK) “Fantastical tribute to the magic of theater…You may resist its charms at first, but soon enough you soften and, intoxicated by Kushner's language and swayed by the music of his ideas, you submit to The Illusion's ravishments.” –TimeOut New York Tony Kushner’s adaptation of The Illusion triumphs as a thoroughly modern rendering of Pierre Corneille’s neoclassical French comedy while featuring the exquisite wordplay, beguiling comedy and fierce intelligence found in all of Kushner’s work. An enchanting argument for the power of theatrical imagination over reality, The Illusion weaves obsession and caprice, romance and murder, fact and fiction, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion of all—love.
A World Of Illusions
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Author : The Little French
language : en
Publisher: The Little French eBooks
Release Date : 2022-01-03
A World Of Illusions written by The Little French and has been published by The Little French eBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-03 with Photography categories.
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The Illusions Of Progress
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Author : Georges Sorel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-07-15
The Illusions Of Progress written by Georges Sorel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-15 with History categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.
Lost Illusions
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-09-07
Lost Illusions written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-07 with categories.
Illusions perdues was written by the French writer Honoré de Balzac between 1837 and 1843. It consists of three parts, starting in the provinces, thereafter moving to Paris, and finally returning to provincial France. Thus it resembles another of Balzac's greatest novels, La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep), in that it is set partly in Paris and partly in the provinces. It is, however, unique among the novels and short stories of the Comédie humaine by virtue of the even-handedness with which it treats both geographical dimensions of French social life.Lucien Chardon, the son of a lower middle-class father and an impoverished mother of remote aristocratic descent, is the pivotal figure of the entire work. Living at Angoulême, he is impoverished, impatient, handsome and ambitious. His widowed mother, his sister Ève and his best friend, David Séchard, do nothing to lessen his high opinion of his own talents, for it is an opinion they share.
Lost Illusions
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Author : Christine Haynes
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Lost Illusions written by Christine Haynes and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with History categories.
Linking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting—but also in limiting—press freedom and literary property.
Lost Illusions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Lost Illusions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with categories.
The Illusions Of Progress
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Author : Georges Sorel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
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Illusions In Motion
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Author : Erkki Huhtamo
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-08-22
Illusions In Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Social Science categories.
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.