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Extrait : "La nuit approchait. Ils avaient fini de dîner ; les coudes sur la nappe, ils bavardaient, tandis qu'auprès d'eux une lampe brûlait toute rose sans les éclairer, et le jour, entré par la fenêtre, mourait en taches bleues sur la nappe. Mariés depuis quelques jours, ils se connaissaient à peine. Jean le premier, dans un besoin d'union absolue, s'abandonnait aux confidences qui livrent l'âme tout entière."
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This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision...
33463) Wild Horses
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A steeplechase at Bangor races...after a mile, a horse suddenly goes wild and smashes through a fence leaving his jockey, Eddie Malloy, comatose. This is no freak accident. In the following weeks, more horses go wild during races. Fortunes are won and lost on them, and the only consistent clue is that Eddie Malloy rides in every race where the horses hit blind panic. The racing authorities want Eddie grounded. The police want to use Eddie to nail...
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What It Might Feel Like to Hope, the second collection from award-winning author Dorene O'Brien, is a masterful and eclectic mix of stories that considers the infinitely powerful, and equally naive and damning force that is human hope. A couple tries to come to terms with one another as they travel west in the uncomfortable twilight of their youth; a mortician and an idealistic novelist spar about the true nature of death; an aspiring author hopes...
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This book is the first handbook about being contemporary and personal diary written by me. The calm of well-being, of inventions. The three-dimensional aspects of concrete and human objects, for a research in individual thought. A work that frees from stylistic commitments, mistakes are everyone's, the present must be represented but, without the fear of having made a bigger mistake than the previously accepted silence. By choosing a speech, it promises...
33466) Thoughts and Adventures
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The fourth volume in this collection of the Nobel Prize–winning prime minister's essays and journalism showcases his wide-ranging interests and talents. Legendary politician and military strategist Winston S. Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at peace, thrilling with victory but...
33467) Truth is in the House
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As a young boy in the late 1950s, Jimmy O'Farrell emigrates with his family from Ireland to Manhattan to bask in the dawn of a new life. Thousands of miles away, the family of Jaylen Jackson seeks to build a life amid Jim Crow culture in Mississippi. As teenagers, both boys struggle to come of age in a racially divisive world, suffering horrific tragedies that shape their characters and life missions. Jimmy seeks to define what it means to stand for...
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“The Philology of Life” retraces the outlines of the philological project developed by Walter Benjamin in his early essays on Hölderlin, the Romantics, and Goethe. This philological program, McLaughlin shows, provides the methodological key to Benjamin's work as a whole.
According to Benjamin, German literary history in the period roughly following the first World War was part of a wider "crisis of historical experience"-a life crisis to which...
33469) Age-Decoded
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This is the story of Nobel-winning genomicist Dr. Frieda Sengmeuller, who invents "age-decoding" – a genetic engineering method that stops human aging. When age-decoding is rolled out in the year 2053, corrupt Authority leaders secretly use CRSPR technology to remove peoples' "propensity to dissent". They fake Frieda's suicide, containing and tormenting her for two centuries as she is forced to research "reverse-aging". Frieda's daughter Ximena...
33470) Summer's Over
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Everyone is back at school or back to work. The heat is gone; summer is over. Or, is it? A summer love may last more than just one summer. And occasionally a summer love is not what it appeared to be. As the Simmons family finds out, the heat of summer sometimes starts in the afterglow. They can only wish summer really will be over soon.
33471) Rag: Stories
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. One of Library Journal's Best Short Story Collections of 2019. One of Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Tor.com's Books to Read in February.
"Sharp, haunting . . . [Meijer] writes wonderfully of the trap of the self, with its impossible prisons of circumstance and identity, not to mention the perversity of being buried alive, alone, inside a body." --Merritt Tierce, The New York Times Book Review
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Extrait: "C'est en 1877, au mois de mai, que Mlle Hurtrel devint, d'un jour à l'autre, célèbre pour sa beauté dans ce que les journaux plus particulièrement Parisiens appellent le Monde. Entendez par là cette société à demi européenne, à demi française, qui peuple la plus grande partie des htels situés autour du parc Monceau et de l'Arc de Triomphe, ainsi qu'un petit nombre de vieux htels de la rive gauche."
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
L'influence de Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) sur la linguistique contemporaine tient à la publication posthume, en 1916, par deux de ses disciples, Charles Bally et Albert Sechehaye, de son Cours de linguistique générale.
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Cours de linguistique générale de Ferdinand de Saussure
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Sentiment du monde, troisième recueil de l'écrivain brésilien Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987), marque un tournant dans sa poésie en amorçant une réflexion sur la dimension historique de son temps, filtrée, comme son titre le laisse entrevoir, par la subjectivité lyrique.
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33475) La courte échelle
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« Chacun est la solution de l'autre : à deux, et plus forts désormais, nous deviendrons ce que nous aurions dû être. »
C'est autour de ce pacte fondateur que se sont nouées les vies de Jean-Claude et Pascale. Durant quarante ans d'union passionnée, ils n'ont cessé non seulement de se soutenir, mais aussi de se faire à tour de rle la courte échelle pour tenter de se hisser, ensemble, hors de leurs conditions initiales. Quatre ans après...
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Sur les traces d'un père...
Toi, mon père biologique que je n'ai jamais connu, j'ai toujours eu envie de savoir qui tu étais. Te retrouver, te rencontrer devenait une obsession. J'ai secrètement souhaité que tu fasses des recherches pour nous retrouver, mon frère et moi. Moi j'en ai fait, au départ dans l'espoir seulement d'obtenir ton nom. Je commence à l'âge de quatorze ans. Je n'ai que ton prénom et quelques informations que ma mère...
33477) Mystery
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This title examines the genre of mystery in The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Westing Game, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Eye of the Crow, and A Spy in the House. It features four analysis papers that consider mystery, each using different critical lenses, writing techniques, or aspects of the genre. Critical thinking questions, sidebars highlighting and explaining each thesis and argument, and other possible approaches for analysis help students...
33478) Chaps & Chumps
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Of Sturm und Drang of long ago and far away misspent young years, of adventure and calamity, of love land lust, of irony and pathos, of these tell tall and teetering tale.
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Have you heard the terms structuralism and deconstruction and postmodernism but aren't really sure what they mean? Have you taken a whole course on literary criticism but are still feeling lost? Here's the book you need to sort it all out-and enjoy doing so!In Literary Theory For Beginners, Mary Klages takes you into her classroom, cuts through the jargon, and explains the ABCs (and the DEFs as well) in terms you can get your head around. Her breadth...
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