Belles Lettres

It has also given us some wild cards, unexpected treats that belong on the shelf once labeled belles-lettres but now more commonly known (thanks to Dave Eggers's annual paperback anthologies) as nonrequired reading. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is the mistake of believing that experience can be absorbed, both understood and expressed, wholly in literature; and in literature, moreover, which is reduced to belles-lettres prose fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism. ❋ Unknown (2009)

By Gissing's late-Victorian day, the street's name had been changed, but the phrase "Grub Street" still conjured a world of shabby belles-lettres. ❋ Tina Brown (2009)

The standard by which all of belles-lettres are to be judged. ❋ Sean Craven (2009)

American scholarly trends, steering their students away from popular pulp literature to belles-lettres. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When a few hardy critics even write about London's stories, they carefully avoid the "kiddy lit" and focus exclusively on London's belles-lettres: Adventure, Burning Daylight, John Barleycorn, The ❋ Unknown (2007)

London's The Call of the Wild and White Fang are listed as books for youth whereas Martin Eden is belles-lettres or "fine literature." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Throughout her life, Bracha Habas sought also to engage in belles-lettres. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One gentleman was a deep philologist — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. ❋ Unknown (2008)

No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belles-lettres. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When the Sultan had thus assured himself of his courtly breeding and bearing and his knowledge of the liberal arts and belles-lettres, he joyed with exceeding joy and invested him with a splendid robe of honour and promoted him to an office whereby he might better his condition. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Louis-Auguste Dambourney, a textile manufacturer in Rouen, published and oversaw publications relating to that subject for the local academy of sciences, belles-lettres and arts, and also served until his death as perpetual secretary for the agricultural society in that city. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Russians will possess the belles-lettres, mathematics, wit, and politeness, which degrade man and pervert nature. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The queen, however, dying suddenly, the Whigs took it into their heads to occupy themselves in hanging the protectors of academies, a process which is very injurious to the belles-lettres. ❋ Unknown (2007)

We must know what we are to follow, and what we are to avoid; this is the real fruit of the profound study of the belles-lettres; this is what Horace did when he examined Lucilius critically. ❋ Unknown (2007)

What we have to say of Ferrara has no relation to literature, but it has a very great one to justice, which is much more necessary than the belles-lettres, and much less cultivated, at least in Italy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is still more strange that, having all his life cultivated the belles-lettres, he reasons no better on our good authors than on our philosophers. ❋ Unknown (2007)