closed seasons or area closure (e. g., protected areas) been considered. Estuaries are productive ecosystems that provide The purpose of this study was to test the numerous ?shery opportunities and food for hypothesis that an estuarine species as the spotted people. In South Africa, temporarily resident grunter Pomadasys commersonnii is evenly d- estuarine ?sh populations are exploited for both tributed within the estuary and uniformly food, mainly subsistence, and recreation. Little is exploited by different groups of ?shers. This was known about the status of estuarine ?sheries, but done by...

"At the request of my friend, Paul Lafargue, ... I arranged three chapters of this book (Anti-Duhring) as a pamphlet, which he translated and published in 1880, under the title: Socialisme utopique et Socialisme scientifique. From this French text, a Polish and a Spanish edition were prepared. In 1883, our German friends brought out the pamphlet in the original language. Italian, Russian, Danish, Dutch, and Roumanian transla-tions, based upon the German text, have since been published. Thus, the present English edition, this little book circulates in 10 languages. I am not aware that any...

His Excellency (French: Son Excellence Eugene Rougon) - From Zola's Rougon-Macquart Series. "Son Excellence Eugene Rougon is the one existing French novel which gives the reader a fair general idea of what occurred in political spheres at an important period of the Empire. It is a book for foreigners and particularly Englishmen to read with profit, for there are yet many among them who cherish the delusion that Napoleon III. was not only a good and true friend of England, but also a wise and beneficent ruler of France; and this, although his reign began with bloodshed and trickery, was...

"Strait is the Gate," first published in 1909 in France as "La Porte etroite," is a novel about the failure of love in the face of the narrowness of the moral philosophy of Protestantism. --- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in between the two World Wars. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual...

"Judged by the standard of popularity, "Money" may be said to rank among M. Zolas notable achievements . . . This is not surprising, as the book deals with a subject of great interest to every civilized community."--Ernest Alfred Vizetelly.

The Critic as Artist" explores Wildes defense of criticism through sharp, witty dialogue and riveting, thoughtful arguments. This theoretical dialogue uses prime examples to discuss many elements, such as criticism as an art form, the true definition of a critic, criticisms value over art, and more.

This historic bilingual edition presents Heine's German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year. The original work, published in 1844, was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated.

This is one of Zola's best known works, "The Soil," also known as "The Earth," part of Zola's series "The Rougon-Macquart". This English translation of "The Soil" in 1888 aroused such an outcry that a prosecution followed, and the translator and publisher, Henry Vizetelly, was sentenced to three months' imprisonment.

Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), one of the greatest German authors in Switzerland, pens the tale of Salomon Landolt, a noble and impartial judge and governor, who hits upon the grotesque plan of inviting all his former sweethearts to a festival at his castle. The five ladies accept the invitation not knowing that the others would be there.

A historical novel built upon the questions "Can a good action be a bad action? Does not he who spares the wolf kill the sheep?" centers on revolutionary France; just as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force.