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Free Download Practice Makes Perfect: Complete French All-in-One, Premium Third Edition by Annie Heminway
English | November 3, 2022 | ISBN: 1264285612 | 656 pages | MOBI | 107 Mb
Seven books from the bestselling Practice Makes Perfect series―all in one volume! The best value for learning French at the level that matches your needs!

Free Download Kathy Comfort, "Representations of Marginalized Populations in French WWI Literature: Muted Voices "
English | ISBN: 1666916366 | 2023 | 196 pages | EPUB, PDF | 343 KB + 1387 KB
Comfort examines the works of five Francophone authors who wrote about World War I: Maxence Van der Meersch’s Invasion 14, Colette’s war reporting, Bakary Diallo’s Force-Bonté, Blaise Cendrars’s La Main coupée, and Roland Dorgelès’s Le Réveil des morts. Engaging in a close reading, she analyzes what makes these literary works unique and what they all have in common. These are the stories of groups who have remained on the margins of the World War I narrative: women and children, French West African colonial troops, wounded veterans, and French Foreign Legionnaires, whose stories have been overshadowed by those of the infantrymen in the trenches who are often the heroes of the conventional French World War I novel. Informed by trauma studies as well as literary history, Comfort’s reading of these works enhances our understanding of the way the Great War affected those away from the front lines, and thus contributes to the decentering of the French World War I narrative. This book is of interest to scholars of twentieth-century French literature, culture, and history.

Free Download Toby Norris, "Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars "
English | ISBN: 168393248X | 2023 | 326 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 17 MB
Marginal to Mainstream: French Modernism Between the Wars traces the near-miraculous progress of modern art in France in the first half of the twentieth century. Before World War I, it was a marginal phenomenon, largely absent from the museums and bought and sold by a handful of second-string dealers; by the early 1950s it had been canonized as the representative form of the epoch. The triumph of modernism, and the simultaneous establishment of Paris as the crucible of modern art, were not the products of a coherent policy but of a stumbling and spasmodic process. France was the leading democratic nation in Europe, and it wanted its art to reinforce its prestige on the international stage, but no-one could agree how best to achieve this. Toby Norris shows how, amidst the policy squabbles and in-fighting of representative government, France fumbled its way toward an art of democracy and in the process helped install modern art as the house style of democratic capitalism.

Free Download Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France"
English | ISBN: 0755645596 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 49 MB
New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the unveiling of artefacts from ancient Susa at the Louvre Museum are among the factors that radically altered France’s perception of Iran during the long nineteenth century. And this is reflected in the literary culture of the period. In an ambitious study spanning poetry, historiography, fiction, travel-writing, ballet, opera, and marionette theatre, Julia Hartley reveals the unique place that Iran held in the French literary imagination between 1829 and 1912. Iran’s history and culture remained a constant source of inspiration across different generations and artistic movements, from the ‘Oriental’ poems of Victor Hugo to those of Anna de Noailles and Théophile Gautier’s strategic citation of Persian poetry to his daughter Judith Gautier’s full-blown rewriting of a Persian epic. Writing about Iran could also serve to articulate new visions of world history and religion, as was the case in the intellectual debates that took place between Michelet, Renan, and Al-Afghani. Alternatively joyous, as in Félicien David’s opera

Free Download Colourworks: Chromatic Innovation in Modern French Poetry and Art Writing by Susan Harrow
English | January 28, 2021 | ISBN: 1350182206, 1526637758 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 7.7 MB
How do modern writers write colour? How do today’s readers respond to the invitation to ‘think colour’ as they read poetry and art writing, and explore paintings? To what extent can critical thought on colour in visual media illuminate the textual life of colour? These are some of the lines of enquiry pursued in this bold new study of modern poetry and art writing in French, where colour, Susan Harrow argues, is integral to the exploration of ethics, ekphrasis, objects, bodies, landscape and interiority.

Free Download Contribution to the Correction of the Public’s Judgments on the French Revolution (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, edited and translated by Jeffrey Church, Anna Marisa Schön
English | March 1, 2021 | ISBN: 1438482175, 1438482167 | True PDF | 250 pages | 1.8 MB
The reception history of the French Revolution in France and England is well documented among Anglophone scholars; however, the debate over the Revolution in Germany is much less well known. Fichte’s Contribution played an important role in this debate. Presented here for the first time in English, Fichte’s work provides a distinctive synthesis of Locke’s "possessive individualism," Rousseau’s general will, and Kant’s moral philosophy. This eclectic blend results in an unusual rights theory that at times veers close to a form of anarchism.

Free Download Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Rebecca Comay
English | September 30, 2010 | ISBN: 0804761264, 0804761272 | True EPUB | 224 pages | 0.3 MB
This book explores Hegel’s response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and brought to a climax by German Idealism. Many thinkers reasoned that a political revolution would be unnecessary in Germany, because this intellectual "revolution" had preempted it. Having already been through its own cataclysm, Germany would be able to extract the energy of the Revolution and channel its radicalism into thought. Hegel comes close to making such an argument too. But he also offers a powerful analysis of how this kind of secondhand history gets generated in the first place, and shows what is stake. This is what makes him uniquely interesting among his contemporaries: he demonstrates how a fantasy can be simultaneously deconstructed and enjoyed.

Free Download Frontières: A chef’s celebration of French cooking; this new cookbook is packed with simple hearty recipes and stories from France’s borderlands – Alsace, the Riviera, the Alps, the Southwest and North Africa by Alex Jackson
English | 2023 | ISBN: 191166378X | 288 pages | MOBI | 104 Mb
Explore the food of France’s borderlands with acclaimed chef Alex Jackson in his second cookbook Frontières.

Free Download Berlitz Publishing, "Berlitz Pocket Guide French Riviera"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1780040474 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 94.2 mb

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Free Download The Berlitz Self-Teacher: French
English | 1987 | ISBN: 039951323X | 286 Pages | PDF | 18.5 MB
You acquired English naturally. Not through the memorization of long list of vocabulary, not through the tedious chore of learning bare-bones grammar but through actually speaking it.