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...teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Père Goriot was titled in Chinese, and Eugénie Grandet - along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove - the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
...ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Pere Goriot was titled in Chinese, and EugEnie Grandet?along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove?the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy ending...
...Janeiro is the city in Brazil that people all over the world know. They know the cathedrals and the samba clubs, the curved white strip of Copacabana beach, the spread-armed statue of Cristo Redentor on the peak of Corcovado mountain. Sao Paulo, on the other hand, is the city that foreigners don't know. They don't know that it is in many ways Brazil's musical center, accounting for 57% of record sales in the country, vs. 13% for Rio. They don't know that, with a population of 17 million, it is not only far larger than...
...negress. [He was] the wildest romance of a man, who could and did openly maintain at 70 numerous "establishments," and a literary factory as well, whose quantitative output in the arts is equaled only by Reubens? studio. ... ?Tis no secret and no shame either than the Chateau Monte Cristo was haunted by many ghostwriters, and that its author signed his name to more books than anyone could ever write. ?Tis not expected of Pharaoh that he build with his own hands his own pyramids. But the mere blueprint of one Dumas plot is an airtight alibi for a whole career...
...single hour, listen to his Edmond Dantes. The immature, innocent tones are tortured out of him; as he withers in prison, and is schooled in bitterness, his voice trudges down an octave, until by the time he has escaped and become the vengeful Count of Monte Cristo, he sounds as gruff as a great troll. It's an epic vocal performance...