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Wisdom of Eccentric Old Men
The wise fool, the sensible madman, and the village idiot, traditional characters in European literature, are best-known through Don Quixote. Galdós, Spain's most important novelist after Cervantes, contributed to this corpus with a number of principal characters whose affinity to Cervantes's hero is clearly recognizable. Bly demonstrates that a number of Galdós's secondary characters - the eccentric old men who appear with regular frequency in the realist social novels of his most important period of writing, 1876 to1897 - can be classified as a variant or sub-group of this type.
Quint and Miss Jessel at Bly
"Peter Quint is sent by his lifelong employer, the Master of Bly, to be the servant in charge of a remote English country house where Miss Jessel has just arrived to be governess to the orphaned children of the master's brother. The ultimately deadly love triangle that results forms a darkly funny and erotic Gothic love story. These are the lovers who haunt Henry James's The Turn of the Screw."--P. 4 of cover.
Galdos's Novel of the Historical Imagination
The Spanish writer Benito Pérez Galdós (1843-1920) was a prolific novelist, and ranks with Balzac and Dickens as a chronicler of nineteenth-century society. His 46 historical novels (the episodios nacionales) dealt with the major events of Spanish history in the first half of the nineteenth century. From about 1870 he began to publish contemporary social novels, and in 1881, with La desheredada, he inaugurated what he himself saw as a new style of writing. The novels from 1881 to 1915, his serie contemporánea, are the subject of this study. Professor Bly argues that in them Galdós created a special type of historical novel which, by drawing subtle parallels between fictional action and p...
Here Be Dragons
A wealth of new astronomical techniques and space missions may provide this evidence early in the next century."--BOOK JACKET.
Om bly te wees (eBoek)
Brooke en Peter se huwelik word tot die uiterste beproef terwyl hul driejarige Hayley om haar lewe veg. In OM BLY TE WEES moet die Baxter-familie mekaar ondersteun al lyk selfs gebed buite bereik. In plaas daarvan om na Brooke te draai om Hayley se ongeluk te verwerk word Peter deur selfverwyt verteer en soek hy op ander maniere troos. Sy besluite slinger hom in ’n bodemlose diepte wat nie net dreig om sy verhouding met sy vrou te vernietig nie, maar ook sy lewe. In OM BLY TE WEES kom die Baxters te staan voor seer en verlies, maar ’n troue bring weer vir almal ’n rede om te glimlag. Brooke en haar gesin moet hul terugslae verwerk en die toekoms tegemoetgaan. Maar die verlies van ’n baie spesiale vrou in hul lewe sal almal vir altyd verander. OM BLY TE WEES is die vierde boek in die gewilde VERNUWING-reeks.
