The subsequent imprisonment after a man commits a murder leads only to complete alienation from life existence.

Political essays, articles, and notes written between 1952 and 1961.

Previously published: Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1928. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-356) and index.

Edith Wharton was devoted to the French people and their culture.

With insight and compassion, Dickens casts his tale with such memorable characters as the evil Madame Defarge and her knitted patterns of death, the gentle Lucie Manette and her unfailing devotion to her downtrodden father, and the ...

Rufin presents two conflicting views of man and nature as he tells the story of two orphaned children who are dragged off on a French colonizing expedition where they are meant to learn the native languages and act as interpreters.

Book jacket/back: The setting of Jean Genet's celebrated play is a brothel that caters to refined sensibilities and peculiar tastes.