Title : Carrot Top - Jules Renard - book Summary : Poil de carotte is a long autobiographical short story or novel by Jules Renard published in 1894, which recounts the childhood and misfortunes of an unloved red-haired boy. It is undoubtedly in an unhappy childhood that we must seek the sources of the skepticism and irony of Jules Renard (1864-1910). His art of understatement, his dense and precise style, his cruel observation, the economy of words with which he renders the strongest emotions make him a great classic writer. Poil de carotte, his masterpiece, remains, through its writing and its subject, a surprisingly contemporary book, one of those which, according to Jean-Paul Sartre, "is at the origin of contemporary literature." EAN : 9782867560125 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Human Condition - André Malraux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782091800608 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Horla and other fantastic tales - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218047121 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Hernani, Ruy Blas - Victor Hugo - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782218049408 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Beryl Diadem - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782277302025 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bibliocollège - The Deceits of Scapin - Molière - book Summary : Octave and Léandre learn that their respective fathers are returning from a trip with the firm intention of marrying them off to strangers. However, one of them has just secretly married Hyacinte and the other has promised marriage to a young gypsy. What to do in such a situation? There's only one solution: call the valet Scapin to the rescue. Library College propose : • the full annotated text, • questionnaires throughout the text, • iconographic documents used, • a presentation of Molière and his era, • an overview of the comedy genre, • a group of texts: “The disguised servants in five comedies by Molière”. EAN : 9782011678386 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bourgeois Gentleman - Jean-Baptiste Molière - book Summary : Monsieur Jourdain, a bourgeois who seeks to become a gentleman, ultimately finds himself crowned "mamamouchi" during a burlesque and delirious ballet. A satire of a coarse bourgeoisie and the vanity of its dreams of social advancement? Certainly, but also and above all a profound and poetic meditation on the power of the imagination. With this total spectacle that is the comedy-ballet, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme appears as the most fascinating expression of Molière's dramatic genius and the irresistible power of theater. EAN : 9782035834164 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : New Yorkers - Edith Wharton - book Summary : Pauline Manford is a seemingly exemplary wife, mother, and homemaker, determined to see only success and harmony around her. But in the New York of the Roaring Twenties, the opulent Manford family is caught up in the whirlwind of pleasure and money. The conflict between a tenacious puritanism and cynical behavior causes dramas from which Pauline turns away by pursuing frenetic activity. Her days are filled with domestic rituals, marital tactics, spiritualist meditations, social gatherings, and charitable organizations in a total leveling of values. She stuns herself with positive principles, as categorical as they are artificial, in order to distract herself from a reality she would find wrong to face. Yet those close to her are painfully aware of the blindness, lies, and betrayals surrounding her. The intimate wounds of her daughter Nona are those of an entire generation victimized by the negligence of their elders. A strikingly timely satire on the ravages of complacency, Women of New York is Edith Wharton's fiercest, funniest, and most modern novel. EAN : 9782080677853 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Complete News - Marcel Aymé - book Summary : It happens that the most ordinary, banal existences embrace the fantastic with such happiness that, far from being offended, we slip into it with delight. If animals speak, or become a little snobbish because they have learned to read, in the tales of the Perched Cat, what could be more natural? And if certain beings have received gifts that they have not asked for: walking through walls, wearing a halo that turns out to be cumbersome, possessing the gift of ubiquity... well, we follow in their footsteps and follow with passion and tenderness the inevitable avatars that such situations bring about in individuals who could not be more normal. Marcel Aymé wrote tales and short stories throughout his life, 105 in total, brought together here for the first time. The 17 Tales of the Perched Cat were published in illustrated albums between 1934 and 1946; The stories were written and published between 1927 and 1967. There is nothing impromptu in this work, which is as abundant as it is caustic, but on the contrary, a host of characters - men and animals - who inhabited their creator. EAN : 9782070763733 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Émile or On Education, Books I-II - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book Summary : Today we see Émile as a revolutionary anticipation of new methods in education. But in 1762, its publication and success lit the fuse: the way in which Rousseau denied original sin earned him condemnation from the Church. Convinced of a form of natural goodness in children, which human society had not yet perverted, Rousseau came to the idea that childhood is an essential moment in existence and that its development obeys general laws on which any good teacher should rely. The first two books of Émile deal with the two initial stages of childhood (from birth to 2 years and from 2 to 12 years), during which pedagogy is, from the outset, a very serious issue. Staging a governor and his young pupil through a theoretical narrative of infinite richness, Rousseau makes us think about the most crucial questions raised by any reflection on childhood. Dossier 1. The sources of Rousseau's educational thought 2. Émile, a compendium of Rousseauist anthropology 3. Pedagogy and childhood in the age of Enlightenment 4. Rousseauist-inspired approaches to childhood. EAN : 9782080247452 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Island of Slaves - Pierre de Marivaux - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782038712650 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Intermezzo - Jean Giraudoux - book Summary : For some time now, the inhabitants of the small town, under the influence of an unknown force, have been behaving strangely; "all bourgeois morality is upside down." A ghost has also been reported. The Mangebois sisters accuse the teacher of being responsible for the events. It's true that the charming Isabelle encounters the ghost every night. A specialist in hunting the supernatural and coming expressly from Limoges to restore order, the Academy inspector sets a trap for the specter... and fails. It is Love who succeeds in disenchanting Isabelle and everything returns to normal: "Money goes to the rich again, happiness to the happy, and women to the seducer." Intermezzo , a comedy in three acts in which the magician Giraudoux gave free rein to his imagination and his verve, a spark of wit. EAN : 9782253006299 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Confessions - Books I to IV - Jean-Jacques Rousseau - book Summary : I am undertaking an undertaking which has never been preceded and whose execution will have no imitator. I want to show my fellow men a man in all the truth of nature; and that man will be me." In these first four books of his Confessions, Rousseau recounts his youth, from his birth (1712) until the age of 19 (1731). He recounts his difficult childhood in Geneva - he, the son of a modest watchmaker, motherless - and his flight to escape his environment; his travels; finally his providential meeting with Madame de Warens, an older woman with whom he immediately falls in love. It will be for him a new birth, and the entry into adulthood. More than thirty years later, Rousseau looks at Jean-Jacques. He recounts his childhood sorrows, his adolescent joys, confesses his petty thefts ("I was therefore a rascal"), relives his first romantic emotions, and plunges back into his dazzling discovery of reading, which saved him from boredom ("I did not choose: I read everything with equal avidity"). He makes, in in short, the assessment of his apprenticeship in life. In this extraordinary quest for an identity, a true novel of origins, Rousseau tells his story, Rousseau reinvents himself. EAN : 9782070403738 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Roads Traveled - Edith Wharton - book Summary : Her sharp and - even more so than that of her dear Henry James - critical eye on her country and her compatriots earned Edith Wharton the admiration of the severe Edmund Wilson. In this self-portrait, in which the author of The Wedding Planner and The New Yorkers casts, at the end of his life, "a look back on the paths traveled", we find the woman James had christened "the angel of devastation", her ferocious art dressed in chic, this impression of strength and mixed reflections which has struck all readers of her work. Here is a great "portrait of a woman," that of one of the great ladies of American literature, in whom irony and humor have always been able to combine with panache and elegance.9782253155225 EAN : 9782264031891 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Water from the Hills, volume 1 - Jean de Florette - Marcel Pagnol - book Summary : A simple and powerful tale of a struggle for life, a story of a crime and its punishment, a drama of revenge, a family tragedy, a conflict of pure hearts and strong souls, pitting a young city dweller full of freshness and enthusiasm against two hard, bitter, sly, closed, implacable peasants, an exact and magnificent portrayal of men of the earth, a song of the world, a poem of water, wind, seasons, hills, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources are all this and they are much more than that, one of the summits of Pagnol's work: the book of guilt, innocence and forgiveness. EAN : 9782877060547 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Horla and other fantastic tales - Guy de Maupassant - book Summary This volume of fantastic stories, most of which were written between 1882 and 1887, was not composed by Maupassant himself. Reading them in sequence, collected in the order of their publication, one will better understand, however, that the fantastic is a constant in the work - and one that appeared very early on: contrary to what a certain legend has led people to believe, Maupassant, although madness overcame him at the end of his life, did not write from his own dictation. But is it really fantasy? Nothing supernatural here, nor marvelous. But stories that give way to anguish and cruelty, madness and fear, to the division of being that is analyzed with lucidity. The genius of the author is then to make his reader captive, to act on his conscience and to make him believe naturally and simply that this interior fantasy, coherent and logical, is also ordinary life, but suddenly become strange. EAN : 9782253005391 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Education - Flaubert Gustave - book Summary Sentimental Education, The Story of a Young Man is a novel written by Gustave Flaubert and published in 1869. The heart of the story is taken from Sainte-Beuve's novel: Volupté, which Honoré de Balzac had already treated and in a way rewritten with The Lily of the Valley. Flaubert's novel takes up the same subject according to entirely new narrative rules, reinventing the coming-of-age novel to give it a depth and acuity never before achieved. Sentimental Education includes many autobiographical elements, such as the meeting of Madame Arnoux, inspired by Flaubert's meeting with Élisa Schlésinger, the love of his life. The main character is Frédéric Moreau, a young provincial of eighteen who comes to study in Paris. From 1840 to 1867, he experienced unwavering friendship and the power of stupidity, art, politics, and the revolutions of a world hesitating between monarchy, republic, and empire. Several women (Rosanette, Madame Dambreuse) crossed his life, but none could compare to Marie Arnoux, wife of a wealthy art dealer, with whom he was madly in love. It was through contact with this inactive passion and the contingencies of the world that he received his sentimental education, which essentially boiled down to gradually burning his illusions. Less well-known than Madame Bovary, Sentimental Education is, however, a complete novel with a fully mastered style, and where the meticulously constructed world is one he knew from experience. The fresco thus created is both a summary of Romanticism and a precise picture of an era, making Flaubert the spiritual initiator of naturalism. Maupassant and Émile Zola would consider him their master. EAN : 9782743400392 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Skin of Sorrow - Honoré de Balzac - book Summary Turn around, said the merchant, suddenly grabbing the lamp... and look at this shagreen... Since you are an orientalist... perhaps you will read this sentence... "If you possess me, you will possess everything. But your life will belong to me. God wanted it that way. Desire, and your desires will be fulfilled. But set your wishes on your life. It is there. With each wish I will decrease like your days. Do you want me?" EAN : 9782070365555 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Red and the Black - Stendhal - book Summary The Red and the Black is a novel about energy, that of an ardent, demanding, and poor young man in Restoration society. Julien is the delegate to provincial energy, the delegate of talent to career, of the poor classes to the conquest of the world. This painting, full, powerful, normal of the energy of a man, of a country, of an era, composes an immense work that his time did not understand but whose living influence is not yet exhausted. EAN : 9782253006206 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Pierre Et Jean - Guy de Maupassant, - book Summary A Parisian merchant couple, the Rolands, retired to Le Havre. Two sons: Pierre and his younger brother Jean, "as blond as his brother was black, as calm as his brother was hot-tempered, as gentle as his brother was resentful." Pierre and Jean do not love each other, but the family lives in peace until the day it is learned that an old friend of the Rolands left his entire fortune to Jean upon dying. Why to Jean alone? From what could have been a banal boulevard drama, Maupassant has turned into a concise and cruel tragedy, in which the theme of the Double emerges, which will soon haunt his madness. And the book contains, on the sea, the boats, the light, the Normandy countryside, some of the most beautiful pages of Impressionist literature. EAN : 9782070374144 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disincarnation - Jean Rouaud - book Summary "At that precise moment, literature was hanging by a thread. Two friends advised a third, who had just read them a long melody into which he had put the best of himself, to give it up altogether. No big deal, we'll say. Literature will recover. Yes, but not like before. Literature's survival here, in Croisset, near Rouen, requires renunciation. For young Gustave, the good-for-nothing son of Doctor Flaubert, until then had a different idea of ​​it. For many months, in his Temptation of Saint Anthony, he had indulged in "desperate style" that he would never recover. To cure his "cancer of lyricism," Maxime Du Camp and Louis Bouilhet, the two friends, prescribed him a drastic treatment: write a novel "à la Balzac," "down to earth." It would be, by force and duress, Madame Bovary. The times ahead were not easy. for those who favor the phrase and the song. From now on, realism imposes its iron law, the visions are sent back to the desert and the dead are asked not to be resurrected. As if this fission between earth and heaven referred to another secret war, unleashed several centuries ago around this question of the dual nature. The meeting at Croisset, the ultimate avatar of the Council of Nicaea? Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070425457 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary A young eighteen-year-old provincial, full of dreams and rather attractive, comes to study in Paris. From 1840 to the evening of the coup d'état of 1851, he learns about the world in a society in full upheaval. Along the way, he encounters true love and the contingencies of pleasure, the Revolution and its false apostles, art, the power of money and stupidity, the reversibility of beliefs, fraternal friendship and the inevitability of betrayals, without managing to commit himself to any cause other than that of following the loss of his illusions. Written in dazzling language and according to unprecedented narrative rules, L'Education sentimentale , published in 1869, is perhaps Flaubert's most accomplished and mysterious masterpiece. In seeking to represent the very essence of lived time, the author conveys to us a philosophy of history, a morality of existence and an aesthetic of memory that remain surprisingly relevant for elucidating the enigmas of today. EAN : 9782253010692 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Barber of Seville - Beaumarchais - book Summary "An old man in love claims to marry his ward tomorrow; a more skillful young lover anticipates him, and that very day makes her his wife, under the nose and in the house of the guardian. This is the basis, from which one could have made, with equal success, a tragedy, a comedy, a drama, an opera, et cetera ." This is how Beaumarchais himself presented The Barber of Seville , which in 1775 quickly triumphed and then enjoyed lasting success: Marie-Antoinette herself played the role of Rosina in 1785; two opera librettos were taken from it for Paesiello and Rossini. This is because verbal fantasy and dramatic power offer the spectator a play whose action remains suspended on a fragile link - a word or a silence that can end everything or cause everything to fail - and this is the model for comedy in the two centuries to come. EAN : 9782253037798 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Thérèse Raquin - Emile Zola - book Summary I wanted to study temperaments and not characters. I chose characters supremely dominated by their nerves and their blood, devoid of free will, driven to every act of their life by the fatalities of their flesh: Thérèse and Laurent are human brutes, nothing more. [...] In a word, I had only one desire: given a powerful man and an unfulfilled woman, to seek the beast in them, to see only the beast, to throw them into a violent drama, and to scrupulously note the sensations and actions of these beings. I simply did on two living bodies the analytical work that surgeons do on cadavers. Zola, Preface to the 2nd edition of Thérèse Raquin. What dazzles us today in Thérèse Raquin is Zola the poet and visionary, director of reality and painter of the souls of the night. [...] What force in the description of these beings walled up within themselves, defeated by obscure powers they cannot name, already ransomed by the death that awaits them! And what brilliant dramatic invention throughout this descent into hell, breathless, convulsive, wild! Robert Abirached Full text EAN : 9782253010074 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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