Title: The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Followed by Claude Gueux and the Tapner Affair - Victor Hugo - book Summary : "V. Hugo wrote admirable poems, he wrote admirable novels and admirable dramas; but, for us, his capital work - when the executioner has been chased away - will be to have helped to chase the executioner away. "There is something greater than a great poet or a great novelist, and that is a wise man. There is something more beautiful, more enviable than imagination, and that is the heart." This was at a time when Joseph de Maistre saw the death penalty as the keystone of the social edifice. But Pierre Larousse was right to congratulate himself on the effectiveness of this strange book. Hugo reinvents his art to serve the noblest of causes. Who is he, this condemned man? What crime has he committed? We will never know. With his hand, with his pen, he simply has to lead us towards his immediate future. How can we think about man when man decides on the death of man? EAN : 9782253050063 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: Dialogues of Beasts - Colette - book Summary : TOBY-DOG: She grabbed me by the scruff of the back, like a small, square suitcase, and cold insults fell on my innocent head: "Ill-bred. Hysterical dog. Weepy sausage. Calf-hearted toad. Obtuse seal..." You know the rest. You heard the door, the poker she threw in the wastepaper basket, and the coal scuttle that rolled open, and all... KIKI-THE-SWEET: I heard. I even heard, O Dog, what didn't reach your simple-bull understanding. Don't bother. She and I, we usually disdain to explain ourselves. EAN : 9782070367016 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Tempest - William Shakespeare - bilingual book English Summary : Rumbles of thunder, lightning, raging seas: The Tempest opens with chaos. A ship pitches and capsizes. On board: Alonso, King of Naples, his son, and Antonio, King of Milan. On the island where they are stranded, Prospero reigns, a great connoisseur of occult sciences, who has mastered the taming of fantastical beings, such as Caliban, the monstrous son of the witch Sycorax, or Ariel, the spirit of air and water, who makes storms arise. A dramatic twist: Antonio, one of the shipwrecked, is none other than Prospero's brother, whom he exiled from Milan to seize the throne from him. For Prospero, the hour of revenge has come... With The Tempest (1611), his last play, Shakespeare signs his most serious tragicomedy: against the backdrop of rivalry between two brothers fighting for power, the eternal struggle between good and evil, between truth and illusion, plays out. EAN : 9782081331808 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title: The Prey - Irène Némirovsky - book Summary : Nothing is more bitter than seeing superhuman efforts yield so little happiness. There remains only one possible consolation: to tell oneself that there is no happiness. First published in 1938, this novel, with its Stendhalian undertones, tells the story of the social rise and fall of an ambitious young man, Jean-Luc Daguerne, whose love for his beloved will lead him to his downfall. Against this tried-and-true backdrop, Irène Némirovsky makes the words dance with humor and brilliantly plays with human passions and the cruelties of fate. But this Prey owes much to the 1930s, to their tragic energy, to all their shattered hopes. It is this mad dash toward the abyss that makes it so modern. We have been rediscovering the work of Irène Némirovsky with pleasure since the posthumous publication of Suite française in 2004. A very prominent novelist in Paris in the 1930s, Irène Némirovsky, born in Kiev in 1903, died in Auschwitz, was arrested on July 13, 1942 by the French police. EAN : 9782253117544 Used book at low prices The book matches the photo See the different states

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Title : The True Face of Catharism - Anne Brenon - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2862661060 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sherlock Holmes - The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle - Book Summary : Dismal cries echo across the moor... And now the legend takes shape. An enormous dog, a ghostly and infernal creature, is said to be behind the death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Cursed be Hugo, the impious and atheistic ancestor, who, in his time, provoked the forces of evil! But Sherlock Holmes cannot believe such nonsense. So, when he dispatches the faithful Watson to Sir Henry, the heir newly arrived from America, he has no doubt he will quickly put an end to these speculations. Yet, death has struck several times on the moor. And the manor is the scene of very strange phenomena... Could it be that the Baskerville curse still weighs heavily? EAN: 9782290334768 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water from the Hills - Jean de Florette followed by Manon des Sources - Marcel Pagnol - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782260004424 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ninety-three - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : 1793: a terrifying year in which the Revolution was attacked from all sides and responded to the threat with the Terror. Three men embodied the struggle between the partisans of the Ancien Régime and those of the Republic of Enlightenment and progress: the Marquis de Lantenac, an old aristocrat who was the soul of the Vendée insurrection; Cimourdain, a member of the people and an intractable delegate of the Convention; and Gauvain—nephew of the Marquis and spiritual son of Cimourdain—a nobleman who had joined the ranks of the people. Their terrible confrontation would reveal, beyond the bloody twists and turns of the Revolution, the greatness of the man, his moral conscience, and his integrity. The edition's dossier offers an analysis of David's painting, The Sabine Women (1799), an allegory of France after the Terror. EAN: 9782080722416 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Jean le bleu - Jean Giono - Book Summary : In this autobiographical account, Jean Giono recalls his childhood spent in Manosque, in a tall house with a narrow staircase that connects the ground-floor laundry, where his mother, Pauline, worked, to the third floor where his father's shoemaker's workshop was located. It was there that Jean Giono learned to feel, see, and think, under the watchful care of his mother, shaped by the wisdom and great kindness of his father. Jean Giono also tells us about the adventures and dramas that marked him and his discovery of sensuality during a stay with the shepherds. This wonderful collection of childhood memories, filled with freshness and tenderness, ends with his departure for the war in 1914. EAN: 9782253000228 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Social Contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Book Summary : In the century of the Encyclopedists, wise bourgeois who managed the world by making the most of it, Jean-Jacques is the philosophical anxiety finally rediscovered, this anxiety of truth and justice which troubles a science that is truly too complacent. Here, with The Social Contract and the two Discourses, is the essential of Rousseau, philosopher and politician. EAN: 9782264008992 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Confession of a Child of the Century - Alfred de Musset - Book Summary : In this autobiographical novel, Musset mixes the imprecation of the children of the century, mourning freedom, orphans of Napoleon, and the sentimental confession of a young man betrayed by his mistress, fallen into debauchery, but who will be swept away by passion for an older woman again. The loss of revolutionary hope is mixed with the abandonment of sentimental illusions. In the face of History as in love, it is the end of childhood. Musset, the sensitive and tormented poet, the sincere playwright, becomes here a ferocious novelist. Published in 1836, at the age of twenty-six, this only novel by Musset, which transposes his relationship with George Sand, is a masterpiece of Romanticism. EAN: 9782070364763 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Queen Margot - Alexandre Dumas - Book Summary : From the "red wedding" of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, a prelude to the massacre of the Protestants, to the death of Charles IX bathed in a dew of blood, the two years that pass are among the cruelest in the history of France. Civil wars of religion, struggles for influence within the royal family, plots and political assassinations form the dark framework against which the figure of Margot stands out. Incomparable beauty, gallant lady, this daughter of France is also a woman of letters coupled with a formidable politician; Marguerite is above all a Valois, daughter of a king, sister of a king, wife of a king. And the brave La Mole, this young Protestant gentleman who took refuge in the royal alcove to escape his assassins on the night of Saint Bartholomew's Day, knows that the love he devotes to this pearl will plunge him into the heart of intrigues of power where the life of a man has little weight. EAN: 9782070359271 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bibliolycée - The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : “My body is in chains in a dungeon, my mind is imprisoned in an idea. A horrible, a bloody, an implacable idea! I have only one thought, one conviction, one certainty: condemned to death!” Victor Hugo gives us to judge, without any other file than a personal diary, the cause of a criminal hand but also of a young being, powerless and horrified in the face of the challenge of violence and the guillotine. Library high school propose : • the full annotated text, preceded by the 1832 preface, • a first reading assessment questionnaire, • work analysis questionnaires, • six corpora accompanied by observation questions, writing tasks and image readings, • a presentation of Victor Hugo and his era, • an overview of the genre of the work and its place in literary history. EAN: 9782011691163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Life of King Henry V - William Shakespeare - Book Summary : "This story the good man will tell his son, And Crispin Crispinian will never return From this day until the end of the world Without us being remembered, We, this handful, this happy handful of men, this band of brothers. For whoever today sheds his blood with me Will be my brother; however humble he may be, This day will ennoble his condition. And the English gentlemen today in their beds Will hold themselves accursed for not having been here, And will count their courage for nothing when speaks Whoever fought with us on St. Crispin's Day." (Act IV, Scene III). EAN: 9782070407590 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Exercises in Style - Raymond Queneau - Book Summary : In Folioplus classiques, the full text, enriched with an image reading, a pictorial echo of the work, is followed by its perspective organized in six points: - Literary movement: The Oulipo - Genre and register: Towards an absurd other - The writer at his work table: The rule of the game - Grouping of texts: In search of a new language - Chronology: Raymond Queneau and his time - File: Ideas for reporting on his reading Recommended for high school classes. EAN: 9782070346851 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Judas - Marcel Pagnol - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 2266009036 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : César - Marcel Pagnol - Book Summary : See photos EAN: Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Zazie in the Metro - Raymond Queneau - Book Summary : Zazie, declares Gabriel, assuming a majestic air easily found in his repertoire, if you really want to see the Invalides and the real tomb of the real Napoleon, I'll take you there. - Napoleon, my ass, replies Zazie. He doesn't interest me at all, that bastard, with his stupid hat. - What interests you then? Zazie doesn't answer. - Yes, says Charles with unexpected kindness, what interests you? - The metro." EAN: 9782070361038 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : No Exit / The Flies - Jean-Paul Sartre - Book Summary : "Garcin: - The bronze... (He caresses it.) Well, now is the moment. The bronze is there, I contemplate it and I understand that I am in hell. I tell you that everything was planned. They had planned that I would stand in front of this fireplace, pressing my hand on this bronze, with all these looks on me. All these looks devouring me... (He turns around abruptly.) Ha! There are only two of you? I thought there were many more of you. (He laughs.) So, this is hell. I would never have believed... You remember: the sulfur, the pyre, the grill... Ah! What a joke. No need for a grill: hell is the Others." EAN: 9782070368075 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Nativities - Michèle Gazier - Book Summary : Two women converse, a mother and her daughter. They exchange, as they say, news, a way of letting the banality of everyday life speak for them and of preserving the complicity and tenderness of silence. But in the interplay of these two voices, stories are born, stories of birth, precisely. "We are born," wrote Rousseau, "so to speak, twice; one to exist and the other to live." Jean-Jacques forgot the women who are also born into life by giving existence and the price they pay for this privilege. Far from the unctuous and glorious natalities of imagery, the stories that intersect here, funny or cruel, pathetic or tender, draw most of their strength from the ability to grasp the ordinary nature of the event, the lived nakedness of this upheaval. We find there, a little, of what is sung elsewhere, the expectation, the wonder, the sharing; but also and always what we are accustomed to keeping quiet, the anguish, the humiliation and this terrible solitude in the face of what is sometimes called being born and sometimes also dying. EAN: 9782020231978 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Novels and Tales - Voltaire - Book Summary : Zadig or Destiny - The World as it Goes - Memnon or Human Wisdom - Letter from a Turk on the Fakirs and his Friend Bababec - Micromégas - Plato's Dream - The Two Consoled - History of Scarmentado's Travels - Candide or Optimism - History of a Good Brahmin - The White and the Black - Jeannot and Colin - Potpourri - Little Digression - Indian Adventure - The Ingenuous - The Man with Forty Crowns - The Princess of Babylon - The Letters of Amabed - The White Bull - The One-Eyed Hooker - Historical Praise of Reason - History of Jenni or the Atheist and the Sage - The Ears of the Count of Chesterfield and the Chaplain Goudman - Adventure of Memory - Cosi-Sancta. EAN: 9782080701114 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Memories of Marcel Proust - Robert Dreyfus - Book Summary : Published in 1926, these Memories of Marcel Proust bring together letters from Marcel Proust to Robert Dreyfus. The correspondence begins when the former was 17, in 1888, and ends in 1920, two years before his death. We follow the writer at each stage of his life: from the Lycée Condorcet to the years of writing In Search of Lost Time , including his first social events. Proust talks about friendship, salons, but also literature. He mentions Gobineau and Ruskin. Robert Dreyfus frames these letters with autobiographical notes, portraits, and critical comparisons between the life and work of his friend. The new presentation of the book also reveals some mysteries. Dreyfus censored some of Proust's expressions, replacing them with words he deemed more appropriate. Marcel Proust's "affectionately" becomes "yours truly," for example. Propriety, when you hold us... A stroll through the private life of one of the greatest French novelists of the 20th century. EAN: 9782246810346 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Miser - Molière - Book Summary : Harpagon, a wealthy old man, subjects his entire household to his blind and tyrannical passion for money. His avarice hinders his children's romantic plans, leads him to suspect those close to him, and makes his servants want to deceive him. When he learns that his son is his rival with the beautiful Mariane and that a chest full of gold has been stolen from him, his fury is at its peak and stupefies everyone around him... A dark comedy with hints of tragedy. EAN: 9782210755581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Boule de Suif and Other Stories - Guy De Maupassant - Book Summary : She felt drowned in the contempt of these honest scoundrels..."1870, the Prussians entered Rouen. Fleeing the war, a strange crew crammed into a stagecoach. Among the travelers was Boule de Suif, whose heart was as generous as his loose morals. But these were very weak weapons to combat class contempt and personal interests...No individual escaped Maupassant's criticism. Through each of his short stories, the author managed to capture, in a single stroke, the cruelty, selfishness and false conventions that governed relationships in 19th-century society. This collection brings together Boule de Suif, La Parure, Le Lit 29, Rose, La Serre, Une soirée, Le Vengeur, L'Attente and La Dowry.- Subject of study: To denounce the failings of society. EAN: 9782277300274 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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