An old country curé loses his patrons when the château is sold to Americans, and prepares to hate them — then meets the two young women who have bought it. Halévy wrote the words the nineteenth century sang: with Meilhac he made the libretti for Offenbach and for Carmen. This 1882 novel was the gentlest thing he did, sold enormously, and got him into the Académie. Three plates after Millet and Breton, their peasant labours and evening fields, carry the novel's quiet countryside into paint.
Englisch
Saved by An Angel
The Beauty and the Beast
Eugénie Grandet
The Miller's Bride - House of McLeod - A captivating historical saga of secrets, sabotage and a fight for independence, Book 1 (Unabridged)
The Baby Compromise
The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation
Les Misérables
Beside Still Waters
Moon at the Full
By The Gods's Ears
Other Things Being Equal : A San Francisco Novel
The Woman and the Priest
Notes From the Underground
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Magic Skin
Master and Man
Eugénie Grandet
The Gambler : A Story of the Roulette Table
Bel Ami : or, The History of a Scoundrel
Notes from the Underground : A Confession from a Petersburg Corner
White Nights, and Other Stories : Stories of the Petersburg Nights
Father Goriot : A Paris Boarding-House Tragedy
The Fortune of the Rougons
Carmen : A Tale of Seville
