19th-century France – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs

Arde el Furor - 18th Century Andalusian Music

Maria Espada, Jose Hernandez Pastor, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Diego Fasolis

Venita Datta

Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

Venita Datta

Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

Gentilly

Between 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belong…

Alain Corbin,

Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms o…

The French Romantic Experience - Bru Zane Discoveries in the 19th-Century Music

Veronique Gens, Karine Deshayes, Yann Beuron, Elsa Dreisig, Jean-Francois Lapointe, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Judith van Wanroij, Jean-Francois Heisser, Bertrand Chamayou, Francois-Rene Duchable, Sandrine Pia…

Georges Darien,

The Thief

"We are on the eve of 1900, when decadentism and anarchy join hands to bring the century to an end. Georges Randal, a young man from a good family, an orphan ruined by an indelicate uncle, when the t…

Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly,

The Bewitched

A haunting, resonant novel of passion and betrayal - in its first English translation since 1928"When we bring true passions into our works, we don't fear the cries of the offended." So declared…

Petra Zeller Dotlacilová

Performance Costume in 18th-Century France

Examines the development of theatrical costumes in France during the long 18th century.

Emma Donoghue

The Paris Express

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily ) author of Room , a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at t…

Jeremy D Popkin

The First Emancipation

A new history of slavery and the French RevolutionThe First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on…

Heidi Brevik-Zender

Beyond Building

Beyond Building offers a groundbreaking exploration of nineteenth-century French architecture through the lens of gender, focusing on the years 1852 to 1902.Highlighting the creative work of four women an…

Honoré de Balzac,

The Girl with the Golden Eyes

"Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Caf…

Colette Colligan, Gregory Mackie

Oscar Wilde's Paris

Oscar Wilde's Paris: Legends and Legacies chronicles Wilde's lifelong relationship with the French capital, the city he called "the most wonderful city in the world," and the site of his rise to…

Sergio Luzzatto

The First Fascist

The First Fascist tells the story of Marquis de Morès, an architect of the Dreyfus Affair and a pioneer of blending populism, white supremacy, and open antisemitism. Through violent stunts and media savvy…

Marcel Proust

Swann in Love

A stand-alone novella from Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time highlighting love's transformative force and the trap lying beneath: the insidious reach of jealousy.Swann in Love is part of the Macmilla…

Prosper Mérimée,

A Slight Misunderstanding and Other Stories

Only edition in printTrapped in an unhappy marriage with a boorish, inattentive and socially ambitious husband, Julie de Chaverny enjoys a flirtatious dalliance with the elegant Major de Châteaufort. Howe…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

Honoré de Balzac,

A Woman of Thirty

A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodrama---the story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.Beautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet …