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Pierre Mertens
Pierre Mertens (born 1939)

lawyer, journalist, literary critic, jurist, researcher, playwright, librettist, poet

  • Free University of Brussels

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Les chutes centrales
La fête des anciens
Uwe Johnson
La Passion de Gilles
Le droit de recours effectif devant les instances nationales en cas de violation d'un droit de l'homme
Les éblouissements
L' agent double
Shadowlight
Perasma
Collision
L' imprescriptibilité des crimes de guerre et contre l'humanité
Rilke, ou, L'ange déchiré
Lettres clandestines
Les phoques de San Francisco
L' Afrique de Pékin
Terre d'asile
Perdre
L' Inde ou l'Amérique
Nécrologies
Ombres au tableau
Les bons offices
Terreurs
Une paix royale
Voet aan de grond
Une seconde patrie
Le niveau de la mer
Le don d'avoir été vivant
Les éblouissements
Pierre Mertens, tout est feu
Paysage avec la chute d'Icare
Histoire et fiction
Pierre Mertens, l'arpenteur
Flammes
Une paix royale
Joseph Bédier
Joseph Bédier (1864-1938)

professor, literary critic, philologist, romanist

  • École Normale Supérieure, Lycée Louis-le-Grand

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Roman de Tristan et Iseut
The romance of Tristram and Iseult
Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris
Bibliographie de travaux de Gaston Paris
The romance of Tristan & Iseult
The romance of Tristan and Iseut
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
The romance of Tristan & Iseult
Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
Il romanzo di Tristano e Isotta
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
Tristan and Iseult
אהבת טריסטן ואיזולדה
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris
Bibliographie des travaux de Gaston Paris
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
Roman o Tristane i Izolʹde
Les légendes épiques
Les légendes épiques
Les fabliaux
Les fabliaux
Les légendes épiques
Discours de réception à l'Académie française, prononcé le 3 novembre 1921
Littérature française
Études critiques
How Germany seeks to justify her atrocities
Les chansons de croisade
Une amitié de jeunesse
Tristan and Iseult
De Nicolao Museto (Gallice : Colin Muset), francogallico carminum scriptore
Les crimes allemands
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
Les chansons de croisade
Les fabliaux
Pour la science
German atrocities from German evidence
Le Roman de Tristan et Iseut, par Joseph Bédier
Littérature française
Hommage à Gaston Paris
Hommage à Gaston Paris
Les chansons de croisade, publiées par Joseph Bédier, avec leurs mélodies publiées par Pierre Aubry
Tristan et Iseut
Philologie et humanisme
Tristan and Iseult
Gaston Paris
De Nicolao Museto (Gallice
German atrocities from German evidence
Histoire de la littérature française illustrée
How Germany seeks to justify her atrocities
Roland à Roncevaux
Les crimes allemands d'après des témoignages allemands
German atrocities from German evidence
La tradition manuscrite du Lai de l'ombre
La Chanson de Roland
I crimini tedeschi provati con testimonianze tedesche
How Germany seeks to justify her atrocities
Histoire des lettres
Comments l'Allemagne essaye de justifier ses crimes
Les fabliaux
Der Roman von Tristan und Isolde
Les légendes épiques
Les légendes épiques
Histoire des lettres
Hommage à Gaston Paris
Littérature franca̧ise
Roland à Roncevaux
Les légendes épiques
The romance of Tristan & Iseult
Litterature francaise
La historia de Tristán e Isolda
Tristan and Iseult
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
The romance of Tristram and Iseult
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
DER ROMAN VON TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Tristan i Izolʹda
Roman pro Tristana ta Izolʹdu
Les deux poèmes de La folie Tristan
[Oxford Lectures on Literature, 1907-1922]
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
La chanson de Roland
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
Tristan et Iseut
Les chansons de croisade
La chatelaine de Vergy
The romance of Tristan and Iseult
Les crimes allemands d'après des témoignages allemands
The romance of Tristam and Iseult
The romance of Tristan & Iseult
Roland à Roncevaux
L'effort Français
La chanson de Roland
Tristan agus Iseut
Litterature Francaise
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
La chanson de Roland
La tradition manuscrite du Lai de l'ombre
Les légendes épiques
La Chanson de Roland
La Chanson de Roland
Le roman de Tristan et Iseut
The romance of Tristram and Iseult
La Chanson de Roland
La Chanson de Roland, publiee d'apres le manuscrit d'Oxford et traduite par Joseph Bedier
Ṭrisṭan ṿe-Izoldah
Études critiques ...
Les chansons de croisade
La Chanson de Roland commentée
La Chanson de Roland; publiée d'après le manuscrit d'Oxford et traduite par Joseph Bédier
Discours de réception à l'Académie française, prononcé le 3 novembre 1921
Littérature française
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt (1936-2023)

poet, literary critic

  • University of Oxford, Bryn Mawr College

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Possession
The Game
Babel Tower
The Matisse Stories
Passions of the mind
Angels & insects
A whistling woman
Imagining characters
Ghostly
Still life
The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
The tragedy of King Lear with related readings
Sugar and other stories
The biographer's tale
Elementals
The virgin in the garden
The Children's Book
On histories and stories
Little black book of stories
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror--Ninth Annual Collection
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2009
Iris Murdoch
Deadly Sins
The Virago Book Of Ghost Stories
Degrees of freedom
Selected Essays, Poems, and Other Writings
Peacock & vine
Unruly Times
Medusa's Ankles
On Histories and Stories
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories
Vintage Byatt
Writers on Artists
Ragnarok
Wordsworth and Coleridge in their time
Grimm Reader
The Pocket Canons Bible
Memory
Portraits in fiction
New Writings 4 (Special Sale)
Geschichten von Feuer und Eis
Die Verwandlung des Schmetterlings
Konzernrecht und Kapitalmarktrecht
Des anges et des insectes
The virgin in the garden ; and Still life
Besessen
Bülbül'ün Gözündeki Cin
Angels & Instincts
Bp Portrait Award 2003
Geisterbeschwörung
Die Jungfrau im Garten
Shadow of a sun
Jack Milroy
New Writing
Posesion
Medusa’s Ankles
Der verliebte Dschinn
Das Geheimnis des Biographen
Nature morte
Medusa's Ankles
Elaine Feinstein with A.S. Byatt
Quartet
Posesion
Angels & Insects: Two Novellas (Vintage International)
X 10 Djinn & the Nightingale Counterpack
Collected Stories
Kees Fens finding the place
Raw Material (Storycuts)
Stone Woman (Storycuts)
Still Life
Possessione / Posession
On Histories and Stories
Ángeles e insectos
Pocket Canons
Pink Ribbon (Storycuts)
Küçük Kara Hikayeler Kitabı
Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)
El libro de los niños
Angels and Insects
Future House
Untitled Novel 2 (Byatt)
Untitled Novel
Petits Contes noirs
English and German Cultural Encounters
Selected Essays, Poems and Other Writings
Stern- und Geisterstunden
The Song of Solomon
Natura morta
Song of Solomon
Angels and Insects
On the Conjugial Angel
El libro de los niños
Untitled A. S. Byatt
Obsessie
Posesion
Le mal de peau
X5 Possession Reading Guide Exp
Zucker
Rituals
Naturaleza muerta
Sahipler
A. S. Byatt Boxed Set
Portraits in Fiction
A. S. Byatt Airport Pack
Das Buch der Kinder
Body Art (Storycuts)
Memory
Il libro dei bambini
Angels & Insects-Film Tie-In E
Middlemarch; Possession
Angeles E Insectos
Untitled Stories
Naturaleza muerta
Detskai͡a kniga
New writing
Le livre des enfants
Cesm-i bulbulun icindeki cin
Itō Sachio
Itō Sachio (1864-1913)

poet, waka poet, literary critic

  • Meiji University

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Itō Sachio, Sasaki Nobutsuna
Nogiku no haka
Ito Sachio
Ito Sachio shu
奈々子
野菊の墓
守の家
浜菊
姪子
Nogiku no haka
去年
Itō Sachio kashū
河口湖
Itō Sachio
Ito Sachio zentanka
紅黄録
Itō Sachio zenshū
春の潮
隣の嫁
水害雑録
Nogiku no haka
Sachio karon shō
Sachio kashū
Songs of a cowherd
Mario Biondi
Mario Biondi (born 1939)

translator, poet, literary critic, journalist

  • Bocconi University

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Codice ombra
Una porta di luce
Un giorno e per tutta la vita
Un amore innocente
Il destino di un uomo
Gli occhi di una donna
Güle güle
Gli occhi di una donna
Due bellissime signore
Il cielo della mezzaluna
Crudele amore
Strada bianca per i monti del cielo
Resolucion Tecnica N 10 de La F.A.C.P.C.E
Con il Buddha di Alessandro Magno
La sera del giorno
Il lupo bambino
La civetta sul comò
La casa delle mille e una notte
Sognando la vita
Rosa d'Oriente
Kenji Nakagami
Kenji Nakagami (1946-1992)

poet, literary critic

  • Wakayama Kenritsu Shingū Kōtō Gakkō

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The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto
Snakelust
Cape
Nakagami Kenji (Sakkka no jiden)
Nakagami Kenji mishūroku tairon shūsei
Monogatari Souru
Tōyō ni ichisuru
Kotodama no ametsuchi
Amerika, Amerika: Aoaza no Mongoroido to shite = America, America
Le Cap
Kishū
Kii monogatari
Gendai shōsetsu no hōhō
Ten no uta
Nakagami Kenji zenhatsugen
Himatsuri
Keshō
Misaki
Hōsenka
Jūkyūsai no chizu
Hōsenka
Juryoku no miyako
Karekinda
Jain
Keshō
Tori no yō ni kemono no yō ni
Karekinada
Misaki
Chi no hate shijō no toki
Fūkei no mukō e
Nakagami Kenji to yomu "Inochi to katachi"
Mizu no onna
Sennen no yuraku
Jidai ga owari, jidai ga hajimaru
Yume no chikara
Kumano shū
Hi no bungaku
Nakagami Kenji to yomu "Inochi to katachi"
Hymne (Sanka)
Nakagami Kenji zen tanpen shōsetsu
Edward Docx
Edward Docx (born 1972)

literary critic, journalist

  • University of Cambridge, St Bede's College

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The calligrapher
Self help
Pravda
The devil's garden
The Devil's Garden
Let Go My Hand
Let Go My Hand
El Calígrafo
Mistrz kaligrafii
The devil's garden
On Death
Robert Williams Buchanan
Robert Williams Buchanan (1841-1901)

poet, literary critic, playwright

  • University of Glasgow

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The Shadow Of The Sword
Ballad stories of the affections
Balder the Beautiful
Master-spirits
A Poet's Sketch-book
Saint Abe and His Seven Wives
The City of Dream
"Come, Live with Me, and be My Love;"
Master-spirits
The piper of Hamelin
On Descending Into Hell
The Shadow of the Sword
The drama of kings
North coast, and other poems
Father Anthony
The land of Lorne
The ballad of Judas Iscariot
Saint Abe and his seven wives
Wayside posies
A look round literature
White rose and red, a love story [in verse]
The fleshly school of poetry, and other phenomena of the day
Corinne
Foxglove Manor
David Gray, and other essays
The coming terror and other essays and letters
Ballad stories of the affections from the Scandinavian
Saint Abe and his seven wives
God and the man
On descending into Hell
The shadow of the sword
Foxglove Manor, a novel
David Gray
The devil's case
The martyrdom of Madeline
London poems
Selected poems of Robert Buchanan
The city of dream
The charlatan
Poems
The land of Lorne; or
The Buchanan ballads, old and new
The complete poetical works of Robert Buchanan
Undertones
Idyls and legends of Inverburn
The master of the mine
Andromeda; an idyll of the great river
The earthquake
Rachel Dene
Foxglove manor
Napoleon fallen
White rose and red
The wandering Jew
Selected poems
The poetical works of Robert Buchanan ..
Poetical works
The outcast
A poet's sketch-book
The book of Orm, a prelude to the epic
Poetical works
The new Abelard
The ballad of Mary the Mother
Annan Water
The story of David Gray
David Gray, and other essays, chiefly on poetry
The new Rome
The strange adventures of Miss Brown
Selected poems
The heir of Linne
North Coast And Other Poems
Polypheme's passion
The shadow of the sword
Poetical works
Annan Water V1
The new Abelard
Annan Water V1
Life And Adventures Of Audubon, The Naturalist
God and the man
Balder the beautiful
The city of dream
Notes of a Clerical Furlough Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land
The piper of Hamelin
The Martyrdom of Madeline
The Buchanan ballads, old and new
The Hebrid Isles
Sweet Nancy
The fleshly school of poetry
Red & white heather
The piper of Hamelin
Poetical works
Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist
Father Anthony
The martyrdom of Madeline
God and the man
The heir of Linne
The Ballad Of Mary The Mother
White Rose and Red
Wedding of Shon Maclean
Lady Kilpatrick
The Hebrid Isles
Life and adventures of Audubon the naturalist..
Undertones
The Hebrid Isles
Idyls and legends of Inverburn
Annan Water
The moment after
Matt
The land of Lorne
Life And Adventures Of Audubon, The Naturalist
The Shadow of the Sword
Notes of a Clerical Furlough Spent Chiefly in the Holy Land
The charlatan
Annan water
Annan Water V1
North Coast And Other Poems
The book of Orm
The outcast
The Ballad Of Mary The Mother
North Coast And Other Poems
Woman and the man
The shadow of the sword
Ballads of life, love, and humour
A child of nature
Effie Hetherington
God and the man
Andromeda, an idyll of the great river
Notes of a clerical furlough spent chiefly in the Holy Land
Life And Adventures Of Audubon, The Naturalist
God And The Man
London poems
The Hebrid Isles
The new Rome
Red and white heather
The ten years' conflict