Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)

Selected Short Stories (Dual-Language)Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honor de Balzac (17991850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting ordinary and undistinguished lives in tales that nevertheless abounded in melodramatic plots and violent passions. This convenient dual language volume includes six of Balzac's most highly regarded short stories: "An Episode During the Terror," a deftly told tale contrasting material poverty with spiritual

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but examines many age-old problems with clarity and precision — consonance and dissonance

"Dirac's lovely little book represents a set of lectures Dirac gave in 1964 at Yeshiva University

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Eight appendixes

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He constantly illustrates his discussions with games played by the great modern masters

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