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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.931
- isbn: 9782251661919
- eisbn: 9782821828766
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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roman romantisme (littérature) naturalisme (littérature) Paris littérature américaine American literature naturalism (literature) Paris novel romantism (literature) Literature LIT004020 DSBSujets proches
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Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « Gabrielle de Bergerac (1869). Towers and Oubliettes », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.931
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At the first glance we see nothing but the great proportions, the show, and the splendour; but when we come to explore, we detect a vast underground world of iniquity and suffering. Only half this castle is above the soil; the rest is dungeons and vaults and oubliettes. If James’s first story with French characters and a French setting belongs to a group of tales in which he expresses his mistrust of women, his second story, Gabrielle de Bergerac, is connected with those in which he tells of ...