11 Bücher ähnlich wie Die Königin Margot
Die pastorale Symphonie
La neige qui n'a pas cesse de tomber depuis trois jours, bloque les routes. Je n'ai pu me rendre a R... ou j'ai coutume depuis quinze ans de celebrer le culte deux fois par mois. Ce matin trente fideles seulement se sont rassembles dans la chapelle de La Brevine.
Gemeinsame Themen: Liebe, Continental european fiction, Drama
Dort unten
Là-Bas, translated as Down There or The Damned, is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans, first published in 1891. It is Huysmans' most famous work after À rebours. Là-Bas deals with the subject of Satanism in contemporary France, and the novel stirred a certain amount of controversy on its first appearance. It is the first of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly…
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, History
Scaramouche
Idealism can be transferred from one person to another on a vehicle called revenge.
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Scaramouche tells the story of a young lawyer during the French Revolution. In the course of his adventures he becomes an actor portraying "Scaramouche" (a roguish buffoon character in the commedia dell'arte). He also becomes a revolutionary, politician, and fencing-master, confounding his…
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, Drama, History
Die Prinzessin von Clèves
The Princess of Cleves is a French novel published in 1678 that is regarded as one of the first psychological novels. The plot is set in the royal court of Henry II of France.
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, History
Alles für die Liebe; oder, Die Welt ist verloren
Written in 1677, Dryden's heroic drama 'All For Love, or, The World Well Lost' is his best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra', and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine.
Gemeinsame Themen: Queens, Drama, History
Zwanzig Jahre später
Two decades have passed since the musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve, and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and strategems still cry out for justice: civil war endangers the throne of France, and in England, Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold. The quartet of musketeers come out of retirement to cross swords with time,…
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, History
Onkel Bernac
This is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's dramatic tale of historical fiction set during the Napoleonic wars.
Gemeinsame Themen: France, History
Die Sintflut
This is Volume 2 of the Curtin translation, first published in 1898. This is NOT the more modern Kuniczak translation of 1991 that many people prefer, despite what you can see as the book cover on the screen.
Gemeinsame Themen: Continental european fiction, History
Die Pest
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, Drama
Tristan und Isolde
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Gemeinsame Themen: Queens, Continental european fiction
Der Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) is a play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
Gemeinsame Themen: France, Continental european fiction, History