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Falconet is the name generally given to the untitled, final and unfinished novel of the British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, who died before completing it.
Étienne Maurice Falconet (París, 1 de diciembre de 1716 - 24 de enero de 1791), fue uno de los principales escultores de estilo rococó franceses, siendo Madame de Pompadour su mecenas. Influido por la escuela barroca de la que puede ser considerado un maestro, Falconet aparece, en determinados aspectos, como un escultor neoclásico .
Regarding Pygmalion Falconet elaborated all sides with the same amount of detail. Falconet appears to consider the animation to be a more divine intervention; the figure is touched by Cupid in that moment and not by Pygmalion.
Endymion is a novel published in 1880 by Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, the former Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He was paid an advance of £10,000 for it (equivalent to £1,257,376 in 2023). It was the last novel Disraeli published before his death.
Early in the novel an unknown middle-aged gentleman takes a hackney carriage journey from the London port to a hotel accompanied by a buddhist called Kusinara whom he has met on the voyage and who has come to England to investigate reports that it is in decline.
En la poderosa Granada de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI (1568), concretamente en los valles y montes de La Alpujarra, los moriscos hartos de las injusticias y humillaciones a las que estaba siendo sometido su pueblo, se sublevan y se enfrentan a los cristianos.
15 de may. de 2024 · A combination of fascination and amused contempt for high society, both social and political; a clever vein of irony; shrewd observation of personal and political manoeuvre; an apparently genuine sympathy for poverty and oppression; and a brisk readability characterized his novels.
