Title : The African Farm - Karen Blixen - book Summary : When the breath whistled past my head, it was the wind in the tall trees of the forest, not rain. When it skimmed the ground, it was the wind in the bushes and tall grass, but it was not rain. When it rustled and hissed at eye level, it was the wind in the cornfields. It possessed the sounds of rain so well that one was continually deceived, yet one listened to it with a certain pleasure, as if a long-awaited spectacle were at last appearing on the scene. And still it was not rain. But when the earth responded in unison with a deep, luxuriant, and growing roar, when the whole world sang around me in all directions, above and below me, then it was rain indeed. It was like finding the sea again after having been deprived of it for a long time, like the embrace of a lover." The work of Alain Gnaedig, one of the most eminent translators of Scandinavian languages, but also the author of a new translation of Dickens, finally restores all its brilliance to Karen Blixen's prose, by offering the French reader a faithful translation of the Danish original of The African Farm, one of the most popular titles in 20th-century literature. EAN : 9782070370375 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : By the Lake - Yasushi Inoue - book Summary : Written between 1937 and 1953, these unpublished texts, which have sometimes been developed into novels, never cease to surprise with their sustained beauty, their mystery, their melancholy and, always, their acute vision of a world of deceptive serenity. Whether in Au bord du lac (whose narrator, a bitter old man, refuses to acknowledge that his selfish intransigence has doomed him to solitude and his family to unhappiness), or in Les plumiers blancs (twenty years after a memorable escape, a painter finds the daughter of his first great love: could she also be his?) or even in Le cahier du moine Tchoken (in the evening of his life, an old academic undertakes to write the story of the existence of a monk whose scandalous conduct fascinated him in his youth) we find this dreamy nostalgia, this need to imagine what could have been and was not, treated in a dazzling and often disturbing manner by the great Japanese master of the short story. EAN : 9782234054721 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Giudecca Manuscript - Yvon Toussaint - book Summary : The life of Cardinal Girolamo Aleandro was a grueling cavalcade from one end of Europe to the other. A scholar and a great official of the Church, he crossed paths with an emperor, four popes, a handful of kings, and most of the humanists who illuminated the Renaissance. He was in turn rector of the Sorbonne, chancellor of the Bishop of Liège, prefect of the Vatican Library, prosecutor against Luther at the Diet of Worms, witness to the capture of Francis I in Pavia, nuncio to Venice, and, despite a stubborn case of syphilis, the fulfilled lover of a beautiful Roman woman. Yet, the great passion of his life was... Erasmus. The two men met in Venice during their younger years. Each time they met again, it was to experience the same explosion of love and hate, the irrefutable marks of which their correspondence bears. The manuscript found in the foundations of the Giudecca in Venice reveals, in a shameless and ferocious tale, the secrets of this liaison between the flamboyant prelate and the most famous philosopher of his time. A great "novel of formation": that of the European spirit. EAN : 9782253155676 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Aesthetics of the North Pole - Michel Onfray - book Summary : Since winning the Prix Médicis-essai for La sculpture de soi, Michel Onfray has continued to establish himself as one of the finest essayists of his generation. A long time ago, Michel Onfray's father, a modest man who had never left his Normandy homeland, confessed to his son that, if he could travel, he would love to discover the North Pole. Twenty years later, his son, now a famous writer, decided to make this dream come true and, last June, he took his father for three weeks to this enigmatic and almost inaccessible "pole"... He brought back a book that is at once a travelogue, a philosophy of the cold, a meditation on disappearing civilizations, on the evils of industrialization, on the wisdom of dying peoples. It is also a book of fidelity and filial piety. At the North Pole, Michel Onfray, a hedonistic philosopher, primarily questioned the nature of cultures where pleasure has no place. "Up there," "over there," everything is played out in a logic of survival. He therefore questions stone, space, sites, the repetition of gestures, the conflict between sedentary and nomadic lifestyles. Michel Onfray immersed himself in the thought of the Inuit; he learned about myths, the curious relationships that polar peoples have with nihilism and hope, and the marvelous serenity of these desperate souls. In this approach, we will therefore find (splendid) descriptions, reflections, anecdotes, and echoes of conversations with guides or seal hunters. Of course, Michel Onfray is also an ethnologist, following in the footsteps of Jean Malaurie. He uses this "pole" to reflect on his own epicurean nostalgia for the South. This is an incredibly dense, poetic, and intelligent text. A photographer accompanied Michel Onfray on this journey. He brought back striking images that will be reproduced in a photo notebook inside this book. EAN : 9782246629412 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 : Selected Fables - Jean de La Fontaine - book Summary : See photos EAN : 9782253023715 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Towards Perpetual Peace - Kant Emmanuel - book Summary : This collection includes political texts from the beginning (1783-1786) and the end (1795-1798) of Kant's critical philosophy. In addition to the famous, newly translated texts, we add texts previously unpublished in French (on natural law, on the illegitimacy of book counterfeiting, on book manufacturing, etc.). EAN : 9782080705730 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Cat's Prey - Patricia Highsmith - book Summary : Like the cat who, in the first of these ten stories, nonchalantly introduces mystery and horror into a peaceful friendly gathering, Patricia Highsmith instills at the heart of each story the discreet venom that brings the text to its peak of virulence. Whether she depicts, with ferocious humor, the adoption of two old men by a childless couple or the destruction of a man by his friends, whether she mercilessly describes the daily attacks in the streets, whether she makes fun of a pretty idle woman or chills us with the visions of a lonely woman, the American novelist proves here again that she excels in the difficult art of the short story. EAN : 9782253060215 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Yvain or The Knight of the Lion - Chrétien de Troyes - book Summary : Not everyone can be a Knight of the Round Table! Taking up the challenge of Seneschal Keu, Yvain confronts the Lord of the Fountain in the forest of Brocéliande. He thus wins the heart and hand of the most beautiful lady in the kingdom, whom he promises to join before the year passes. But will he succeed in keeping his promise? Valiant knights and intrepid messengers, marvelous objects and a docile lion... all the ingredients are combined in this story that inaugurates a genre that has become famous: the novel. The edition: - Heroism in the Middle Ages - Reading questionnaires - Groupings of texts: - the animal, literary hero - the hero's madness - Artistic culture: - history of the arts: color photo book - a book, a film: discovering Excalibur (John Boorman) - Media and information literacy (EMI) EAN : 9782080720665 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Blood of Roses - Patrick Cauvin - book Summary : A child's corpse, in a shipment of carpets from Pakistan. Who left it there? For what purpose? Reiner, who, from the peaceful manor where he grows his roses, controls the factory where these carpets come from, undertakes the journey to find out. With the help of Ram, a teenager doomed from a young age to semi-slavery, Reiner will progress towards the truth. A truth that is that of our world, where the exploitation of child labor sometimes hides something even worse... We will discover it on the icy heights of the Karakorum, where the author of The Queen of the World takes us to the rhythm of a first-rate suspense. EAN : 9782253090267 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Frontenac Mystery - François Mauriac - book Summary : For Blanche Frontenac, left a widow with five children, personal happiness does not exist. The only essential thing is to act for the common good and in the interest of the family. When the time comes, Jean-Louis, the brilliant eldest, will obey the same powerful blood ties. Despite different aspirations, he will take over the family business, become the master of the fortune in order to protect the younger brothers and forever maintain the Frontenac mystery. EAN : 9782253010241 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 : Bernard Blier, A Puzzle-Style Man - Jean-Philippe Guerand - book Summary : Bernard Blier: a face, a voice, cult lines. In 180 films and more than 30 plays, Louis Jouvet's favorite student spanned half a century of cinema and theater, rolling out one of the most beautiful credits of the French seventh art, from Quai des orfèvres to Buffet froid via Les Tontons flingueurs . Yet, of this actor, still as popular as ever more than twenty years after his death, we know almost nothing. Conducted like an investigation, this biography takes us to meet an extraordinary personality: an unrepentant joker, with an uncompromising character, capable of Homeric anger but also tender and generous, a lover of good food, the mountains and books, this comedy fanatic placed friendship above all else. In the company of his lifelong accomplices and those close to him (notably his son, the filmmaker Bertrand Blier), we approach the truth of a man who lived as he played, without ever taking himself seriously, with the maxim of this motto signed Michel Audiard: "I don't talk to idiots, it educates them." EAN : 9782266198516 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Preponderants - Hédi Kaddour - book Summary : Jean Freustié Prize 2015 In the spring of 1922, Americans from Hollywood came to shoot a film in Nahbès, a small town in the Maghreb. This clash of modernity fueled conflicts between traditional notables, French settlers, and young nationalists eager for independence. Raouf, Rania, Kathryn, Neil, Gabrielle, David, Ganthier, and others found themselves caught up in the whirlwind of a universe with multiple languages, multiple cultures, and multiple powers. They all tried to invent their lives, adapting, or rebelling. They sometimes fell in love. From California to Europe via North Africa, The Preponderants takes us into the great turmoil of the 1920s, where worlds and people collided. EAN : 9782072713583 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Why I Ate My Father - Roy Lewis - book Summary : The misfortunes of a prehistoric tribe narrated in the language of our modern ethnologists. New edition produced to coincide with the release of the animated film Why I Didn't Eat My Father, directed by Jamel Debbouze, on April 8, 2015. EAN : 9782266040822 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man of High Solitudes - James Salter - book Summary : History textbooks are full of heroic deaths. This book only lists stupid deaths! Tired of a mind-numbing job under a blazing sun, Rand leaves the Californian plains for Chamonix. It's the beginning of a bohemian life, punctuated by climbing, his passion. He bonds with Jack, a climber who, like him, seeks to challenge the Alpine peaks. Through increasingly arduous climbs, the two friends aspire to only one thing: to finally conquer the peace of the high solitudes. James Salter was born in New York in 1925. A fighter pilot, he resigned from the army to successfully devote himself to writing. American Express (Faulkner Prize), A life to burn (PEN-Center USA award) and Perfect happiness are notably available in Points. " The Man of High Solitudes , one of the best books ever written about the mountains, tells the twilight destiny of these anonymous mountaineers in limpid, refined, almost ascetic prose, where poetry bursts forth every time the sun rises. The Express Edition revised and expanded by the authors EAN : 9782757845561 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Star - Danielle Steel - book Summary : On her father's ranch in Northern California, young Crystal Wyatt dreams of Hollywood and its stars. Her encounter with a young officer, Spencer Hill, shakes her as much as he does, but their paths diverge almost immediately. Crystal will realize her dream and reach the firmament where the stars of cinema shine, while Spencer pursues a great career in Washington and marries another woman. Life will bring them together again, for brief encounters. But will it allow them to experience the irresistible love that, from the beginning, has driven them towards each other? Queen of dreams and love for millions of readers around the world, the author of Family Album and of Loving takes us on a journey through these two destinies that dream of becoming one. EAN : 9782253063322 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Isle of Dogs - Patricia Cornwell - book Summary : Tangier Island, Chesapeake Bay. Located a few miles off the coast of Virginia, this small island has just risen up and is threatening to secede. On the brink of civil war, the region is descending into chaos, and a gang of criminals is taking advantage of the situation to steal, rape, and kill with impunity. The governor, manipulated by unscrupulous politicians, is powerless to restore order. Judy Hammer, the new superintendent of the Virginia police, and Andy Brazil, his right-hand man, will have no one to rely on but themselves... Isle of Dogs , Patricia Cornwell's fourteenth novel, is a caustic and irreverent satire of an America consumed by fear and corruption. EAN : 9782253172499 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Girl in the Woods - Patricia Mac Donald - book Summary : It's been fifteen years since Blair last returned to her childhood hometown. Not since her best friend, Molly, was murdered... But her sister Celeste's cancer-stricken condition leaves her no choice. "I did something wrong": On her deathbed, she reveals to him that the man languishing in prison for Molly's murder is innocent. As proof, she was with him the night of the crime. But how could she confess to their uncle, a hateful racist, that she was having a relationship with an African-American? Blair promises to get him released and, to do so, to find the evidence the police need. She then embarks on a painful investigation to understand what really happened that night, when little Molly's body was found in the woods, not far from her house... Is Blair ready to face the awful truth? Is the past over? Patricia MacDonald is formidable. She has managed to pull off not one thriller, but two. A tour de force. Femina version. EAN : 9782253181170 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Bahia of All Saints - Jorge Amado - book Summary : In northeastern Brazil, the picaresque Antonio Balduino embodies the pain and dreams of Black people. A lost child, a bad boy, a professional boxer, a macumba initiate, a tobacco plantation worker, a dockworker, a circus employee, Antonio is always looking for "the way home." He has unreal love affairs with the white woman Lindinalva and an affair with the vibrant Rosenda Roseda. A strike will allow him to discover what solidarity is and give meaning to his life: the struggle for liberation. One of the major books in Latin American literature. EAN : 9782070372997 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 Phantom - Danielle Steel - book Summary : On his way to Vermont, Charlie Waterston hopes to leave behind the wounds of his recent breakup with his wife Carole and the forced abandonment of his architectural work in London, when a snowstorm forces him to seek refuge with a charming old lady. Seduced by her host, she rents him the small manor she owns. But even more than the beauty and serenity the place provides, it is the apparitions of the ghost of the beautiful Sarah Ferguson, the former owner of the place, that seduce Charlie. Taken aback, intrigued, and then won over, he quickly understands that through Sarah's tragic fate emerges the image of his own life. Marvelously blending past and present, drama and hope, Danielle Steel, the most widely read contemporary author in the world, here intersects two destinies which, despite the centuries that separate them, live, tear each other apart, and love each other like characters of flesh and blood. EAN : 9782266100014 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Void and the Full - Notebooks from Japan 1964-1970 - Nicolas Bouvier - book Summary : The famous notebooks that Nicolas Bouvier kept during his stay in Japan in 1964 remained unpublished for a long time. An integral part of the "Book of Wonders" he wanted to write, The Void and the Full imposes his unique art of capturing, like one steals apples from a store window, fragments of eternity. Bouvier discovers, marvels, is astonished, allows himself to be made but also unmade by this country "not so much mysterious as mystifying." And he reveals himself in these short chapters more than perhaps anywhere else. EAN : 9782070361304 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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