Title : Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Book Summary : On an expedition to the North Pole, Robert Walton writes to his sister in which he describes the strange sight he has just witnessed from his ship: the discovery, on an iceberg, of a man lost in his sleigh. Invited to come aboard, Victor Frankenstein says that he has only come here to catch someone—none other than the monstrous creature he once created, which has proven itself to be fearsomely criminal. Published in 1818, Frankenstein was born two years earlier on the shores of Lake Geneva, one day when Lord Byron suggested to some friends, including the poet Shelley and his wife Mary, that each write a ghost story. This fantastic novel predates science fiction and, for nearly two centuries, has continued to arouse sublime terror—to terrify, therefore, but above all to seduce. EAN: 9782253088752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco - Book Summary : In the year of grace and disgrace 1327, all is well in Christendom. Bands of heretics roam the kingdoms. When William of Baskerville, accompanied by his secretary, arrives in the haven of serenity and neutrality that is the abbey located between Provence and Liguria – admired throughout the West for the knowledge of its monks and the richness of its library – he is immediately put to work by the abbot. The day before, a monk threw himself from the top of the walls. It is the first of the assassinations that will be punctuated by the canonical hours of monastic life. Crimes, debauchery, vice, heresy, all will occur in the space of seven days. In its amusing form of detective novel and clever form of erudite riddle, a vibrant plea for freedom, for moderation, for wisdom, threatened on all sides by the forces of unreason and darkness. Dominique Fernandez, L'Express. EAN: 9782253033134 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 : A delicacy - Muriel Barbery - Book Summary : He is the world's greatest food critic, the Pope of gastronomy, the Messiah of sumptuous feasts. Tomorrow, he will die. He knows it and he doesn't care: at death's door, he is searching for a flavor that lingers in his heart, a flavor from childhood or adolescence, an original and marvelous dish that he senses is worth far more than all his feasts as an accomplished gourmet. So he remembers. Silently, sometimes frantically, he sails through the twists and turns of his taste memory, he dives into the casseroles of his childhood, he roams their beaches and vegetable gardens, between countryside and perfumes, smells and flavors, fragrances, aromas, game, meat, fish and first alcohols... He remembers - and he doesn't find it. Not yet. EAN: 9782070421657 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Five Billion Men in a Ship - Albert Jacquard - Book Summary : Man, the singular culmination of the processes at work in the universe since the Big Bang, and on our planet, Earth, since the appearance of the first DNA molecules, is a marvel: he is the only being endowed with the power to attribute powers to himself. The only one whose fate is in his own hands. He uses this privilege today stupidly to pursue derisory objectives of supremacy, of domination; he has accumulated such means of destruction that everything is ready for the suicide of humanity. Perhaps all it would take is a little more lucidity for our intelligence and our energy to finally be put at the service of man. Let's try! EAN: 9782020094818 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals - E. Kant - Book Summary : "What are the Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of Practical Reason about ? The foundation of moral discourse, a coherent discourse, absolutely valid for all beings endowed with reason, obliging everything that is finite and reasonable. It is not a question of morality in the traditional sense of the term, of a system of rules of conduct for concrete situations, of precise prescriptions, of prohibitions to be observed. What Kant is looking for is exactly what the title of the first of these writings indicates: a foundation of the metaphysics of morals, not this one. History and the present are full of moralities, without any of the systems advocated being able to claim universal validity: morality remains to be founded." EAN: 9782206001555 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Princess of Cleves - Madame de La Fayette - Book Summary : "Madame de Clèves took a torch and went to a large table, opposite the painting of the siege of Metz, where the portrait of M. de Nemours was; she sat down and began to look at this portrait with an attention and reverie that only passion can give. One cannot express what M. de Nemours felt at that moment. To see in the middle of the night, in the most beautiful place in the world, a person he adored, to see her without her knowing that he saw her, and to see her completely occupied with things that had something to do with him and with the passion that she hid from him, is something that has never been tasted or imagined by any other lover." EAN: 9782070367788 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Devils - Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly - Book Summary : As for the women in these stories, why shouldn't they be the Diaboliques? Don't they have enough diabolism in them to deserve this sweet name? Diaboliques! There isn't a single one here who isn't so to some degree. Like the Devil, who was also an angel, but who toppled, head down, the... rest up! Not one here who isn't pure, virtuous, innocent. Even monsters aside, they present a very small number of good feelings and morality. They could therefore also be called "the Diaboliques," without having stolen it... We wanted to make a small museum of these ladies. Art has two lobes, like the brain. Nature resembles those women who have one blue eye and one black eye. Here is the black eye drawn in ink - in the ink of easy virtue. Barbey d'Aurevilly. EAN: 9782253036548 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad - Book Summary : Heart of Darkness, Conrad's most famous short story, is the tale of a descent into hell. An officer in the British Merchant Navy, the young Captain Marlow sets out in search of Kurtz, an ivory hunter who has mysteriously disappeared in the African bush. As Marlow sails up the Congo River, he ventures into the darkness: the darkness of a hostile nature where, far from any civilization, the disturbing cries of the "savages" echo; the darkness of the human soul, whose blackness is matched only by its mystery... Feature: 1. Conrad and the tradition of the adventure novel 2. Lies and truth 3. Modern adventure 4. The epic of language 5. Conrad's legacy. EAN: 9782081397453 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 : Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë - Book Summary : Wuthering Heights is a land swept by the northern winds. A family lived happily there when a young gypsy brought misfortune. Mr. Earnshaw had adopted and loved Heathcliff. But his children despised him. Hiding his love for Catherine, his benefactor's daughter, Heathcliff plots a diabolical revenge. He appropriates the family fortune and enslaves the heirs. The curse will weigh on all the descendants until the day Catherine's daughter falls in love with a miserable and unsophisticated being. This English novel, the most famous of the 19th century to the present day, was written by a young girl who lived with her sisters in the middle of the heather moors. She never knew this violent passion or this destructive hatred. She imagined everything, even the ghost of the woman he loved returning to torment the proud man who killed her. EAN: 9782253004752 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Mr. Writer - Joachim Zelter - Book Summary : "Selim Hacopian has written a book." One day, a renowned writer receives this curious email from a strange character who speaks in the third person and wants his writings to be "put to rest." The writer politely refuses, but a few days later, the stranger calls out to him on a street corner and, with the help of "Mr. Creeper," finally gets his way. The writer then, without knowing it, embarks on a long-term literary enterprise, to which he will devote himself body and soul. Between the dusty shelves of the library, over coffee or in Selim's tiny apartment, he makes corrections, gives advice, and suggests ideas for short stories to the young man (he who has lived in Egypt, why not write about camels?) who is quickly contacted by a prestigious publishing house. Hacopian's success grew as the writer's, having abandoned his own novels, declined. He then had an idea: why not use Selim to publish his own prose? EAN: 9782246852629 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Mist Volume 2 - The Reaper - Stephen King - Book Summary : A slight slip and we are plunged into a world, our own, suddenly threatening. Overwhelmed by a nameless fear, man lives in tragedy. We saw this in Paranoia, the first part of this series of short stories. Here, things traversed by secret vibrations become brutally foreign. A familiar object like this divine word processor endowed with supernatural powers... An evil machine, this sneaky truck, a behemoth with murderous instincts, which advances without seeming to... The shadow of death hovers everywhere. When it is not prowling in the Channel, it is lost in the empty depths of a mirror, a hooded silhouette, like the Grim Reaper who cuts the thread of all our lives. EAN: 9782277225799 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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