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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