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A collection of lyrics, poems, notebook sketches, and self-portraits maps the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee's singular creative journey through the weeks just prior to his death.
"The Flame is the final work from Leonard Cohen, the revered poet and musician whose fans span generations and whose work is celebrated throughout the world. Featuring poems, excerpts from his private notebooks, lyrics, and hand-drawn self-portraits, The Flame offers...
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
4) Isabelle
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Livre de poche volume 621
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Gérard Lacase raconte un séjour qu'il fit à la Quartfourche afin de consulter des documents qui devaient l'aider à terminer sa thèse sur « la chronologie des sermons de Bossuet ». Mais les papiers que lui fournit M. Floche, qui l'accueille à la Quartfourche, l'intéressent bien moins qu'un portrait dont il tombe amoureux : celui d'Isabelle.
5) On drinking
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2019]
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"The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol. Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writer's best and most lasting work. A self-proclaimed "dirty old man," Bukowski used alcohol as muse and as fuel, a conflicted relationship responsible for some of his darkest moments as well as some of his most joyful...
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Evergreen book volume E-156
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Essays inspired by travel and residence in Italy. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James, (1843 – 1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born British author. He is one of the key figures of 19th century literary realism; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. He
...7) La curée
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Une édition de référence de La Curée d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Renée, dans ses satiétés, éprouva une singulière sensation de désirs inavouables, à voir ce paysage qu'elle ne reconnaissait plus, cette nature si artistement mondaine, et dont la grande nuit frissonnante faisait un bois sacré, une de ces clairières idéales au fond desquelles les anciens dieux cachaient leurs amours...
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Dans les halles grouillantes de Paris, le cœur battant de la ville, se croisent les destins des marchands, des ouvriers et des rêveurs. Émile Zola nous plonge au sein de ce marché foisonnant avec "Le Ventre de Paris", o il dépeint avec une précision réaliste la vie quotidienne et les luttes sociales du Second Empire. À travers les yeux de Florent, un idéaliste injustement accusé, nous découvrons un monde de contrastes, de saveurs et de...
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Une édition de référence d'Une page d'amour d'Émile Zola, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Mon Dieu! Et ne savoir que faire! Comme ça, brusquement, dans la nuit. Pas même de lumière. Ses idées se brouillaient. Elle continuait de causer à sa fille, l'interrogeant et répondant pour elle. C'était dans l'estomac que ça la tenait; non, dans la gorge. Ce ne serait rien. Il fallait du calme. Et elle faisait...
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Son Excellence Eugène Rougon est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1876, sixième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Dans cet ouvrage, selon ses propres termes, Zola pénètre les « coulisses politiques » du Second Empire. Les personnages sont des proches du pouvoir : ministres, députés, hauts fonctionnaires. L'action se déroule de 1856 à 1861.
Eugène Rougon est le fils aîné de Pierre et Félicité Rougon. Dans les romans La Fortune...
11) The diary keepers: World War II in the Netherlands, as written by the people who lived through it
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"Based on select writings from a collection of more than two thousand Dutch diaries written during World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before, from the stories of a Nazi sympathizing police officer to a Jewish journalist who documented daily activities at a transport camp. Searching and singular, The Diary Keepers mines the diaries of ordinary citizens to understand the nature of resistance,...
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Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is, known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was first a mentor to young Esther. He taught her to read and write then introduced...
13) L'assommoir
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L'Assommoir est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La République des Lettres, avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez l'éditeur Georges Charpentier. C'est le septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. L'ouvrage est totalement consacré au monde ouvrier et, selon Zola, c'est « le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l'odeur du peuple ». L'écrivain y restitue la langue...
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La Faute de l'abbé Mouret est un roman d'Émile Zola paru en 1875, le cinquième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Faisant suite à La Conquête de Plassans, c'est le second ouvrage de la série qui traite du catholicisme. Le thème en est la vie d'un prêtre déchiré entre sa vocation religieuse et l'amour d'une femme.
Le héros, Serge Mouret, est le fils de François et de Marthe Mouret, personnages principaux du précédent roman. Ordonné...
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"When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday Times dating columnist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all. In this book, she vividly recounts falling in love, wrestling with self-sabotage, finding a job, throwing a socially disastrous Rod-Stewart themed house party, getting drunk, getting dumped, realising that Ivan from the corner shop is the only man you've ever been able to rely on, and finding...
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Ce récit délibérément décousu croise et oppose intrigues et personnages. Il y a d'abord les atermoiements et les revirements de Julius de Baraglioul, catholique traditionnel, et de son beau-frère, Anthime Armand-Dubois, libre penseur. Il y a la bande des escrocs qui répandent la rumeur selon laquelle le pape serait séquestré dans les caves du Vatican. Mais, surtout, il y a le jeune Lafcadio, prisonnier de sa mystique de l'acte gratuit. Cette...
17) In Morocco
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The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus for her travels into this exotic Northern African land. Edith Wharton made her name as a novelist closely associated with the prolific Henry James. Their personal and literary kinship may be seen in much of her long...
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Witness a chilling tale of ambition and creation gone awry. Dr. Victor Frankenstein, driven by a thirst for knowledge, assembles a grotesque creature from stolen body parts. Horrified by his creation, he abandons it, setting off a chain of tragic events. The lonely and misunderstood creature seeks revenge on its creator, unleashing a haunting battle between man and monster. Shelley's masterpiece delves into themes of ethics, identity, and the consequences...
19) De profundis
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During its first half Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred's vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist. The letter began "Dear Bosie"...
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Extrait : "En compagnie du chat, j'ai travaillé tout le jour dans la solitude de mon palais de la Rotonde que j'avais déserté hier. A l'heure o le soleil rouge du soir s'enfonce derrière le Lac des Lotus, mes deux serviteurs, comme d'habitude, viennent me chercher. Mais, le Pont de Marbre franchi, nous passons cette fois sans nous arrête devant la brèche qui mène à mon fragile palais du Nord."
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