Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) [French English Bilingual Edition]
There are few if any of Molière's plays to which greater interest is attached than to Le Malade Imaginaire. It was Molière's last dramatic production. And his symptoms culminated during the performance of this play, so that he may be said almost actually to have died on the stage whilst acting it.
In 1672, the year preceding the production of this play, Molière had been sadly tried by domestic affliction, by his own failing health, and by the cold reception given to his great work (Les Femmes Savantes).
Now feeling and knowing himself to be attacked by an incurable malady, he conceived the desperate idea of representing on the stage a hypochondriac, victim of his own terrors, and trembling at the prospect of death; and, as if to hurl a last shaft at the Profession which he had already held up to ridicule in so many of his former comedies, he introduces in the part of Béralde a skeptical freethinker on the subject of medicine, into whose mouth he places long tirades against the inefficacy of all drugs and their dispensers to cope with human ailments.
Argan was played by Molière.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
Wolf Pup Books
A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
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There are few if any of Molière's plays to which greater interest is attached than to Le Malade Imaginaire. It was Molière's last dramatic production. And his symptoms culminated during the performance of this play, so that he may be said almost actually to have died on the stage whilst acting it.
In 1672, the year preceding the production of this play, Molière had been sadly tried by domestic affliction, by his own failing health, and by the cold reception given to his great work (Les Femmes Savantes).
Now feeling and knowing himself to be attacked by an incurable malady, he conceived the desperate idea of representing on the stage a hypochondriac, victim of his own terrors, and trembling at the prospect of death; and, as if to hurl a last shaft at the Profession which he had already held up to ridicule in so many of his former comedies, he introduces in the part of Béralde a skeptical freethinker on the subject of medicine, into whose mouth he places long tirades against the inefficacy of all drugs and their dispensers to cope with human ailments.
Argan was played by Molière.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
Wolf Pup Books
A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
Le Malade Imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) [French English Bilingual Edition]
There are few if any of Molière's plays to which greater interest is attached than to Le Malade Imaginaire. It was Molière's last dramatic production. And his symptoms culminated during the performance of this play, so that he may be said almost actually to have died on the stage whilst acting it.
In 1672, the year preceding the production of this play, Molière had been sadly tried by domestic affliction, by his own failing health, and by the cold reception given to his great work (Les Femmes Savantes).
Now feeling and knowing himself to be attacked by an incurable malady, he conceived the desperate idea of representing on the stage a hypochondriac, victim of his own terrors, and trembling at the prospect of death; and, as if to hurl a last shaft at the Profession which he had already held up to ridicule in so many of his former comedies, he introduces in the part of Béralde a skeptical freethinker on the subject of medicine, into whose mouth he places long tirades against the inefficacy of all drugs and their dispensers to cope with human ailments.
Argan was played by Molière.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
Wolf Pup Books
A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
There are few if any of Molière's plays to which greater interest is attached than to Le Malade Imaginaire. It was Molière's last dramatic production. And his symptoms culminated during the performance of this play, so that he may be said almost actually to have died on the stage whilst acting it.
In 1672, the year preceding the production of this play, Molière had been sadly tried by domestic affliction, by his own failing health, and by the cold reception given to his great work (Les Femmes Savantes).
Now feeling and knowing himself to be attacked by an incurable malady, he conceived the desperate idea of representing on the stage a hypochondriac, victim of his own terrors, and trembling at the prospect of death; and, as if to hurl a last shaft at the Profession which he had already held up to ridicule in so many of his former comedies, he introduces in the part of Béralde a skeptical freethinker on the subject of medicine, into whose mouth he places long tirades against the inefficacy of all drugs and their dispensers to cope with human ailments.
Argan was played by Molière.
About the Bilingual Edition
Project Bilingual (A division of Wolf Pup Books) is a continuing project making available great original French writers' texts along with their English translation. This edition, which offers after every original language paragraph its translation, makes both grammar and vocabulary checks as painless as possible. Idiomatic forms that could be overlooked can be easily detected.
Furthermore, large paragraphs have been broken down to much smaller units so that the check is as effortless as possible. We do hope that by reading French writers that defined the language itself or whose work permeated the French culture, you will be able to get the maximum benefit from this language series. Although this edition is not a replacement for traditional methods of learning language, it is a very powerful tool to speed up the process once you have attained the intermediate level and beyond.
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A Bilingual Ebook Publishing Company
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| BN ID: | 2940148764267 |
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| Publisher: | Wolf Pup Books |
| Publication date: | 07/17/2013 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 128 KB |
| Language: | French |
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