Laurence Teper Book order (chronological)

To Montesquieu belongs the honor of pioneering the movement out of which grew the philosophical dictionaries, encyclopedias, and the literary crusade against mental subjection. If ever satire had a distinct call to duty it was during the Regency in France. Montesquieu adopted the device of a series of familiar letters exchanged by two Persian travelers in France. They were completed in 1721. Popular taste was captivated by the wit and pleasantry of the Letters. They gently satirized the abuses rife in church and state; society was held up to ridicule for its pet sins.

Mit Racines Phèdre wird die bedeutendste Tragödie der französischen Klassik in einer zweisprachigen, reich kommentierten Ausgabe der Universal-Bibliothek vorgelegt. Sie wurde im Jahre 1677 im Rückgriff auf die Stücke Euripides‘ und Senecas geschrieben, doch hat Racine durch den Verzicht auf jedes Pathos und die Konzentration auf das psychische Geschehen ein Meisterwerk geschaffen, das unvermindert aktuell durch die Zeiten geht.

Includes The Necklace, Butterball, The Tellier House, On the Water, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mask, The Inn, A Day in the Country, The Hand, The Jewels, The Model, The Entity (The Horla) These stories—poignant scrutinies of social pretension, wicked tales of lust and love, and harrowing examinations of terror and madness—display the full genius of Guy de Maupassant in an enthralling new translation by Joachim Neugroschel. They reveal Maupassant’s remarkable range, his technical perfection, his sexual realism, and his ability to create whole worlds and sum up intricate universes of feeling in a few pages

A selection of nine stories to appreciate the work of a great master of the short story in the 19th century. The themes dear to Maupassant are explored: family disunion, love of money, romantic disappointment, cruelty towards animals, and folly in all its forms.