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The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Author | : Jan Potocki |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 933 |
Release | : 2006-04-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0141914130 |
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.
The Saragossa Manuscript
Author | : Jan Potocki |
Publisher | : Olympia Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2014-03-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1626573131 |
This is an extraordinary collection of tales that is sure to appeal to all readers of the weird and supernatural. Written in French by a Polish nobleman and first published, almost secretly, in St. Petersburg in 1804. During the wars in Spain, an officer of the Walloon Guards finds, in a deserted castle in Saragossa, a manuscript of such absorbing interest that he carries it with him on his campaign. Taken prisoner by the Spaniards, he falls into the hands of a Spanish officer who claims that the manuscript belonged to his family. The Spaniard proceeds to dictate to his prisoner, now an honored guest in the officer's house, the remaining stories in this collection.
Iberian Fathers, Volume 2 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 63)
Author | : Braulio of Saragossa |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813211638 |
In this second volume of translations from the Iberian Fathers appear the works of two seventh-century writers. From the first of these, bishop Braulio of Saragossa, a figure in Visigothic literature second only to St. Isidore of Seville, comes an extensive collection of letters. These are variously addressed to Isidore himself, to other ecclesiastics, to Pope Honorius, and to King Receswinth; friends and relatives were the recipients of seven letters of consolation. Braulio's letters are joined by the Life of a near contemporary, St. Emilian, and by a valuable list of the writings of Isidore, under whom Braulio studied. Fructuousus of Braga is represented by two monastic rules. The first of these was composed for Compludo, a foundation made by Fructousus himself; the other rule is a general or common one. Two other writings dealing with monastic practice accompany these rules, together with a letter to King Receswinth.
Trafalgar & Saragossa (Musaicum History Series)
Author | : Benito Pérez Galdós |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Trafalgar" is the historical novel of the Battle of Trafalgar. The action is narrated in the first person by Gabriel de Araceli, a heroic character, mixing his romantic and often folkloric biography. Gabriel is presented as a rogue orphan from Cádiz, who at the age of 14 gets involved in the battle of Trafalgar as a servant of an old Navy officer in the reserve. The action takes place in October 1805 and narrates with a certain epic rhythm, the preparations, development and outcome of the battle, with the boy enlisted in the Santísima Trinidad, flagship of the Spanish Navy. "Saragossa" – Through the first-person narration of Gabriel de Araceli, the novel describes the second siege of Zaragoza, which occurred in January and February 1809, during the War of Independence between Spain and France. The story depicts one of his most stark pictures of the violence of the war, with meticulous descriptions of the preparations for the defense of the city, under General Palafox, the war skirmishes, the lack of food, the technical and material superiority of the French and the yellow fever epidemic that decimated the population of a Zaragoza.
The Maid of Saragossa. Engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A. from the Original Picture in the Royal Collection, Painted in Madrid by Sir David Wilkie, Etc. (A Descriptive Account of the Defence of Saragossa by the Heroine Agostina.) [With a Reproduction of the Engraving.]
Author | : Agustina Raimunda Mariá ZARAGOZA Y DOMÉNECH |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1836 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Saragossa (Historical Novel)
Author | : Benito Pérez Galdós |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Through the first-person narration of Gabriel de Araceli, the novel describes the second siege of Zaragoza, which occurred in January and February 1809, during the War of Independence between Spain and France. The story depicts one of his most stark pictures of the violence of the war, with meticulous descriptions of the preparations for the defense of the city, under General Palafox, the war skirmishes, the lack of food, the technical and material superiority of the French and the yellow fever epidemic that decimated the population of a Zaragoza.
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Author | : Jan Potocki |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140445803 |
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days. The resulting manuscript is discovered some forty years later in a sealed casket, from which tales of characters transformed through disguise, magic and illusion, of honour and cowardice, of hauntings and seductions, leap forth to create a vibrant polyphony of human voices. Jan Potocki (1761-1812) used a range of literary styles - gothic, picaresque, adventure, pastoral, erotica - in his novel of stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provides entertainment on an epic scale.