Title : A Donkey Afraid of Fire and Water - Alexandre Dumas - Book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782038702163 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Professors of Despair - Nancy Huston - Book Summary : We are becoming schizophrenic, my friends. In our daily lives, we care about each other, anxiously follow the news, and do everything in our power to preserve and strengthen our bonds. As readers or spectators, on the contrary, we praise the champions of nothingness, advocate a sexuality as exhibitionist as it is sterile, and listen endlessly to the litany of human turpitudes. What is the reason for this growing gap, at the dawn of the 21st century, between what we want to experience (solidarity-generosity-democracy) and what we want to consume as culture (transgression-violence-solitude-despair)? "Man is good and bad," said George Sand. "But he is something else: nuance, the nuance which is for me the goal of art." Has contemporary literature given up on this goal? EAN: 9782742758173 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Earthly Nourishments - André Gide - Book Summary : Nathanael, I will teach you fervor. A pathetic existence, Nathanael, rather than tranquility. I desire no other rest than that of the sleep of death. I fear that every desire, every energy that I have not satisfied during my life, for their survival, will torment me. I hope, after having expressed on this earth all that was waiting within me, satisfied, to die completely despairing. EAN: 9782070361175 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Narrow Gate - André Gide - Book Summary : The door was closed. The bolt, however, offered only a rather weak resistance and with a push of the shoulder I was about to break it... At that moment I heard the sound of footsteps; I hid myself in the recess of the wall. I could not see who was coming out of the garden; but I heard, I felt that it was Alissa. She took three steps forward, called out weakly: - Is that you, Jerome?... My heart, which was beating violently, stopped, and, as my constricted throat could not utter a word, she repeated more loudly: - Jerome! Is that you? Hearing him call me thus, the emotion that gripped me was so strong that it made me fall to my knees. EAN: 9782070362103 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Last Day of a Condemned Man - Victor Hugo - Book Summary : Edition enriched by Roger Borderie including a preface and a file on the novel. Victor Hugo was twenty-six years old when he wrote, in two and a half months, The Last Day of a Condemned Man, a novel that undoubtedly constitutes the most vehement indictment ever made against the death penalty. We will not know who the Condemned Man is, we will know nothing of the crime he committed. For the author's purpose is not to enter into a debate but to expose the horror and absurdity of the situation in which any man finds himself whose neck is going to be slit in a few hours. This novel - with its often strangely modern overtones - has such a power of suggestion that the reader ends up identifying with the narrator, whose anguish and vain hopes he shares in turn. Until the very last lines of the book, Victor Hugo's genius makes us participate in a frightened anticipation: that of the grating sound of the blade rushing into the rails of the guillotine. Anyone who has read this book will never forget this striking lesson in writing and humanity. EAN: 9782070413102 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Dreams - Collectives - book Summary : In ancient texts, dreams were considered divine omens. Disdained by the Enlightenment, dreams made a strong entrance into literature with Romanticism: from Musset to Nerval and up to Lautréamont, they occupied a prominent place in the form of novelistic stories, poems, and plays. From the beginning of the 20th century, thanks to the contribution of psychoanalysis on the one hand, and the multitude of Surrealist productions on the other, dreams became the royal road leading to our unconscious. Imbued with fantasy and wonder, dreams renewed the imagination of poets and writers, but also of painters and filmmakers. To be explored in the company of Sigmund Freud, Henri Michaux, Marcel Proust, André Breton, Georges Bataille, Georges Perec, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Antonin Artaud, Fernando Pessoa, Michel Leiris, Marguerite Yourcenar, Louis Aragon, Jean Racine, Gustave Flaubert, Julien Gracq, Thomas Mann and many others. EAN: 9782715229013 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Summer with Voltaire - Jacques-Pierre Amette - book Summary : Despite the years, the carriages, the kisses, the bows, the eager servants, this July day was so stormy at the Château de Ferney that it enveloped everything in a misty air and drowsiness. Summer 1761: While in residence at Ferney, Voltaire receives two ravishing Italian actresses who have come to rehearse Le Fanatisme ou Mahomet, a play written twenty years earlier and highly criticized at the time. After the rehearsals, the warm nights lead to games, debauchery, and burning confidences. Among the guests is Count Fleckenstein, a Prussian officer sent by Frederick II to negotiate a treaty that would put an end to the Seven Years' War. Meanwhile, not far away, Rousseau triumphs with La Nouvelle Héloïse, which condemns this infamous entertainment: the theater... EAN: 9782253128373 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower - Marcel Proust - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782743400217 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : My Mother's Castle - Marcel Pagnol - book Summary : The most beautiful book about childhood friendship: one morning while hunting in the hills, Marcel meets the little peasant, Lili des Bellons. His vacation and his whole life will be illuminated by it. A year after The Glory of My Father , Marcel Pagnol thought he was concluding his Childhood Memories with this castle of my mother (1958), the second part of what he considered a diptych, ending with the famous scene of the ferocious guard frightening the timid Augustine. Little Marcel, after the tenderness of his family, has discovered friendship with the marvelous Lili, undoubtedly the most endearing of his characters. The book ends with a melancholic epilogue, a poignant elegy to the time that has passed. Pagnol strikes the chords of a gravity to which he rarely accustomed his readers. "Hey! Friend!" I saw a boy my age looking at me sternly. "You mustn't touch other people's traps," he said. "A trap is sacred!" "I wasn't going to take it," I said. "I wanted to see the bird." He approached: he was a little peasant. He was dark, with a fine Provençal face, black eyes and long girlish eyelashes.  EAN: 9782877065085 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac - book Summary : "Sir," said Derville, "to whom do I have the honor of speaking? To Colonel Chabert. Which ? "The one who died in Eylau," replied the old man. Edition presented and commented by Jeannine Guichardet, professor of French literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III). Read with the full text and the preface presenting the work and its author. Understanding with "The Keys to the Work." 16 pages to get to the heart of the content and analysis of the work. 48 pages to deepen the study of the work. EAN: 9782266083300 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : No Kid - Forty reasons not to have children - Corinne Maier - book Summary : Convinced that he is suffering from a serious illness, Argan cannot do without doctors. He therefore dreams of seeing his daughter Angélique marry a doctor, Thomas Diafoirus. Except that Angélique loves Cléante and refuses her father's choice. The latter, incensed, then decides to disinherit her in favor of Béline, a hypocritical wife and odious stepmother. But this is without counting on the providential help of Toinette and Béralde, who strive to make the lovers' cause triumph! Molière's last work, this comedy-ballet in three acts was a great success during the author's lifetime and remains one of the playwright's most famous plays today. - Subjects of study: Theater from the 17th century to the 21st century - Special teaching file for the Baccalaureate - Extension: Spectacle and comedy (corpus of texts. EAN: 9782290007532 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Monsieur Pourceaugnac - Molière - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218074110 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Fanny Stevenson - Between passion and freedom - Alexandra Lapierre - book Summary : She lived a thousand lives. She was a gold prospector in the deserts of Nevada, she cleared jungles in the South Sea Islands, she was one of the first female painters in Impressionist Paris. One spring day in 1876, in an inn on the banks of the Loing, she meets a young Scottish intellectual. He is eleven years younger than her. He suffers from lung disease and people fear for his life. Between these two people, whom everything separates - she is American, married, mother of three children; he is the only son of austere bourgeois Victorians - love explodes. A love stronger than all prohibitions. Stronger than illness and death. A love that will make the young rebel one of the most famous literary geniuses of his time. Robert Louis Stevenson, the immortal author of Treasure Island and Strange Case of Jekyll and Mr Hyde . Fanny Stevenson is the passionate tale of an extraordinary life, a life teeming with adventures, dreams, and conquests. The life of a woman who was the only love of one of the greatest writers. A woman who, all by herself, embodies an era, a myth, and a world. EAN: 9782221058046 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Asia - Collectives - book Summary : Discover Asia as you've never imagined it: the Asia of all passions, the Asia of all dangers. Follow the trail of adventurers and missionaries, explorers and reporters, barbarians and thurifers, philosophers and storytellers. Enter the mysteries of Buddhism, calligraphy, martial arts, enigmatic customs, strategy games, forbidden pleasures, and the amorous and culinary practices of Asia. Selected writers share their encounters, their dazzlements, their doubts. Without them, what would we know of Asia? They tell their stories, they bear witness, they are afraid of nothing, not even of displeasing. Alexandra David-Néel, Yukio Mishima, Anna Moï, Tash Aw, Claude Farrère, Stefan Zweig, Clara Malraux, Shan Sa, Rudyard Kipling, Dai Sijie, Roland Barthes, Fabienne Verdier, Henri Michaux, Mayuzumi Madoka, and many others..., each presents, in their own way, a scintillating facet of the Asian enigma. EAN: 9782715242791 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Country Outing - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : Maupassant's works have tempted many filmmakers. They have found in them the opportunity to illustrate slices of life or to tell picturesque or pathetic stories, capable, by their human value, of interesting a wide audience. A Country Party is a particularly interesting work in this regard: this short story, of classical sobriety, is among the writer's best. And it so happens that it was adapted by one of our greatest filmmakers, Jean Renoir. This happy encounter gave birth to a remarkable film. This edition offers a parallel between the two works that allows for a better understanding of the specificity of these major arts: literature and cinema. In addition, it enlightens the reader on the complex problems of adapting written works to film. EAN: 9782253138051 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Taste of Summer - Collectives - book Summary : More than any other, summer is the season of abolished time, a promise constantly renewed, relegating to the sad winter the care of eternal regrets... This is undoubtedly why writers' summers are often the most beautiful. But this "beautiful" season is not so everywhere... In latitudes and climates other than ours, summer can be harsh. This is also what writers tell us elsewhere. A detour through the Russian steppe to the plains of the American South will provide us with proof of this. Scorching, Indian, deadly, gently sloping, southern, contrary, torrid, or rotten... it is summer in all its forms that Albert Camus, Jacques Lacarrière, Cesare Pavese, Marguerite Duras, Truman Capote, Sébastien Japrisot, Gustave Flaubert, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, Jean-Paul Sartre, Françoise Sagan, JMG Le Clézio, Patrick Modiano, Arthur Rimbaud, Antoine Blondin, Jean Giono, Colette and many others offer us in their wake... EAN: 9782715243750 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Voltaire's L'Ingénu - M.-E. Dieval - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218744044 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Marriage of Figaro by Beaumarchais - Michel Viegnes - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782218740749 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : I write to act - Life of Voltaire - Max Gallo - book Summary : Voltaire's statue and glory hide the man of flesh. It is this man that Max Gallo seeks to revive in this Life of Voltaire. From his birth to his death, at eighty-four years old, a decade before the Revolution, we see the emergence of a man determined to forge his destiny day after day, word after word. Dozens of tragedies, essays, tales, pamphlets, historical studies, and thousands of letters: this work, this life, reflects the entire 18th century, that of the Enlightenment, of the philosophical party, of the fight for the abolition of torture... But there is more. Max Gallo shows us other facets of the character: his ambition, his greed. Ruthless and contemptuous, grumpy, yet capable of passion for the "sublime Émilie." A man of contradictions, placing freedom above all else, Voltaire, dazzling with life, our necessary contemporary. EAN: 9782253128946 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Banquet - Phaedrus - book Summary : In The Banquet, the poet Agathon gives a feast to celebrate his victory in a poetry competition. This is an opportunity for each guest to praise Eros by presenting their vision of love. Following them, Socrates, who claims to be reporting the words of the foreigner Diotima, links love to the desire for immortality that animates all living beings. The praise of love then detaches itself from the sensible world to tend towards a new dimension, that of the Intelligible. It is also Eros that is discussed in the Phaedrus, where Plato distinguishes two kinds of love: vulgar love—selfish, jealous, tyrannical—and honest love, which corresponds to celestial Love. Human souls, which have only glimpsed the world of Ideas before incarnating in a body, retain a fleeting memory of Beauty. It is this search for glimpsed Beauty that would provoke the quest for love. EAN: 9782080700049 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Legend of the Centuries. Volume 2 - Victor Hugo - book Summary : See photos EAN: 9782038700602 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Ocean Boulevard - François de Cornière - book Summary : François de Cornière, an inveterate walker and seaside lover, focuses on the life of seaside resorts. With kindness, he describes these timeless summer scenes: hesitant bathers, shellfish gatherers, rainy days or fishing days! - Ocean Boulevard is a succession of chronicles, moments, timeless and universal memories. Through the pages, François de Cornière describes with accuracy and delicacy the passing of time and those “little things” that brighten and brighten our daily lives. - While walking Ocean Boulevard , along the beaches, François de Cornière creates his own album of photographs and memories He focuses on the houses coming back to life in the summer, the bathers hesitating to plunge into the waves, the summer activity of the newsagent's or even the shellfish collectors. - This reissue is enriched by sketches by the artist Valérie Linder. RTL-Poésie 1 prize, Georges Limbour and Guillaume Apollinaire. EAN: 9782859206581 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton - book Summary : In flamboyant New York at the end of the 19th century, Newland Archer is a young man from the upper middle class. Promised a brilliant future, he is about to announce his engagement to the very chaste May Welland. But the appearance of the scandalous Countess Olanska, May's cousin, who has had the audacity to leave her husband, will turn his life upside down. EAN: 9782277233930 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Three Tales - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary : A triple unity - both Trinity and triptych - Flaubert's "Three Tales" evoke a world where the divine presence is as if absent. Foreboding, but mysterious in "Hérodias"; scandalous and incomprehensible in "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller"; confused with superstition and reduced to simulacra in "A Simple Heart." An ironic epic of faith and holiness through the ages, the "Three Tales" question the divine Word and speak of its power, but also its degradation. They affirm, at the end of Flaubert's life, the strength of writing and literature - of the Word. EAN: 9782035881151 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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