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 : Phèdre - Racine - Alain Couprie, Roger Mathé - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782218047220 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Cocteau Prince Without a Kingdom - Lange Monique - book Summary Cocteau, as we know, is avant-garde, curiosity. Strange, this gaze that is always "ahead", to the point of always grasping in those around him (Picasso, Diaghilev, Gide, Proust, Radiguet, Chanel...) or in new technical means (cinema, photography...) what will make the sensitivity of tomorrow. It has been said that he followed fashion. No, he preceded it. Restore the multiple, remake the kaleidoscope of Cocteau the man, tightrope walker of ideas and dreams, enchanter crushed by the difficulty of being, eternal child forever in search of love, such is the undertaking of Monique Lange's book. More than the detail of everyday life, it is the spirit of Cocteau that interests us here. Hence a lively reading of a world whose effervescence never ceases to amaze us, hence this cheerful way of giving taste to the work, one of the most singular of this century. EAN : 9782253053323 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Culottes - Françoise Dorin - book Summary See photos EAN : 9782290306970 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Syngué sabour - Stone of patience - Atiq Rahimi - book Summary "This stone that you place before you... before which you lament all your misfortunes, all your miseries... to which you confide everything that is on your heart and that you dare not reveal to others... You speak to it, you speak to it. And the stone listens to you, soaks up all your words, your secrets, until one fine day it bursts. It falls to pieces. And that day, you are freed from all your suffering, from all your sorrows... What do they call this stone?" In Afghanistan perhaps or elsewhere, a woman watches over her wounded husband. Deep down, they do not know each other. Hours and days pass as the war approaches. And the woman's tongue loosens, weaving the story of a life of humiliation, in the hope of possible redemption. EAN : 9782070416738 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Bay of Biscay - Bertrand Poirot-Delpech - book Summary A port in the Cotentin Peninsula. After the turmoil of May 1968, history and spirits are enjoying the respite of the ebbing seas. A young teacher, Isabelle, and her friend Christopher, a sailor, are preparing to set sail on an old sailboat: heading for the antipodes and mad love. In the countryside, an older woman, Victoire, repairs the church towers in danger, until the day when a dizzying, mutual passion binds her to the departing couple. Will she, too, embark? EAN : 9782070384112 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Françoise - Laure Adler - book Summary What if Françoise Giroud were even greater than her legend? Richer, more complex, more interesting than the popular image of the talented young woman who became the leading journalist of her time? We know the trajectory: hired by Hélène Lazareff at the creation of Elle , then co-founder of L'Express , and finally columnist at Nouvel Observateur , the former script-girl of Jean Renoir had a way with killer phrases: the mark under the charming smile. Companion and accomplice of Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, fierce opponent of the Algerian War, faithful friend of Mendès France and Mitterrand, the one who "invented" the New Wave and drove a convertible was a great lover, loving pleasure as much as duty. A politician, this daughter of Turkish immigrants never passed her baccalaureate, but became Secretary of State for the Status of Women under Giscard d'Estaing. A hard worker, devilishly elegant, in love with freedom, she was a visionary, who embodied the birth of the modern woman. But here we discover that this passionate temperament also has its dark sides - the experience of betrayal, a fit of passionate madness, a suicide attempt, the death of a son... What if a sentence from his mother, on her deathbed, had determined his trajectory and his destiny? Through the portrait of an exceptional woman, Laure Adler brings back to life a fiery era: a time, not so long ago, when people still knew how to fight for ideals. EAN : 9782246759218 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 : The Red Necklace - Jean-Christophe Rufin - book Summary Educational file by Olivier Thircuir. In the summer of 1919, Morlac, despite being a hero of the First World War, is taken prisoner. Officer Lantier is called in to judge the case, but he is faced with many mysteries. Why does Morlac refuse to be let out of the situation? Why does a dog howl outside his prison night and day? In search of the truth, Lantier meets the villagers, including a young peasant woman who also seems to be hiding some secrets... Discover the key to the drama in this novel that teaches us that we must fight for those we love. Groupings of texts: 1. Bearing witness and acting against war 2. The judge, an ambivalent character EAN : 9791035833947 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Praise for the First Time - Vincent Wackenheim - book Summary "The very first time an old friend of your father's gets close to you in the kitchen, demand a large sum of money without delay, failing which you would be sadly obliged to denounce him both to his wife and to your own mother. Once the sum is spent, nothing prevents you from seeing your father's old friend again quite closely, and not only in the kitchen, because then things between you will be clear. If the game is worth the candle, ruin him slowly, taking care not to let the fat burn." EAN : 9782070438815 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Flames of Liberty - Georges Coulonges - book Summary In occupied France, the Resistance has organized itself. Dédé Lassale and his friends are part of it. One night, they are preparing to receive a parachute drop of weapons from London. But the Germans capture the head of the network, Hervé Garin-Millaud, and find at his home the list of his 120 group leaders, who are immediately arrested. The head of the Gestapo offers him a deal: "You give us the weapons and I free your 120 comrades." Hervé accepts. The Resistance then divided into two camps: those who accused Garin-Millaud of treason and those who defended him. The flames of freedom would burn many people before lighting up the skies of France in 1944. EAN : 9782266080941 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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Title : History of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut - Abbé Prévost - book Summary At the age of seventeen, he was about to leave Amiens, where he was completing his philosophy studies. Des Grieux saw the Arras coach arrive. A young girl got off, so charming that he approached her to question her: her parents were sending her to become a nun, and she knew she would be unhappy. Determined to free her from the tyranny of her parents, he put her up in an inn whose owner was devoted to him, and the next day, at daybreak, the two of them left for Paris. When it tragically ended, des Grieux recounted his tumultuous affair with Manon to the Marquis de Renoncour, who reported it in his Memoirs that Prévost published in May 1731. It is thus the very voice of the knight that we hear, it is the emotion that he feels in recounting and reliving what he has experienced that touches us - and his words sound so true that we could believe that Manon and des Grieux had really existed, or that Abbé Prévost was transposing a moment from his own life. But the poignant realism of this tale filled with suffering, of this story where pleasure is lived, bought, and leads to death, is only due to the dazzling art of the author. Professor Emeritus at the University of Tours and former member of the University Institute of France, Jean Goulemot recently published Adieu les philosophes. Que reste-t-il des Lumières? (Seuil, 2001). He also provided Livre de Poche with an edition of Diderot's Paradox on the Actor and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse. EAN : 9782253081036 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson - book Summary Suggested by Apple founder Steve Jobs, who was facing a terrible illness, based on more than forty interviews conducted over two years and interviews with a hundred family members, friends, rivals, competitors, and colleagues, the book traces the incredible life and extraordinary personality of a genius, perfectionist and hyperactive, who revolutionized computers, animated films, music, telephones, touch tablets, and digital publishing. Steve Jobs is now the absolute icon of inventiveness. He understood that combining creativity with technology had become essential. Steve Jobs, of course, collaborated on the book but did not ask for any right to review what was written, or even to read it before publication. He imposed no limits; on the contrary, he encouraged those around him to speak freely. “There are a lot of things I’m not proud of,” he says, “including how, at 23, I handled the situation when my girlfriend got pregnant. But I don’t have any skeletons in the closet that I’m trying to hide.” Steve Jobs speaks with extreme candor about the people he has worked with or competed with. He can deeply infuriate the people around him. His friends, enemies, and colleagues speak frankly about his passions, his demons, his desires, his intransigence, and his obsession with control that have shaped his business vision and the innovations that have resulted from them. Steve Jobs’s personality and the products he creates are intertwined, like different parts of an integrated system—all Apple products and software participate in this logic. Jobs’s career is exemplary, a model of innovation, character, business leadership, and values. EAN : 9782709638326 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: The Giver - Guy Des Cars - book EAN: 9782277118091 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: How Not to Be a Perfect Family - Libby Purves - book EAN: 9782266081030 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: A Marriage Proposal and Other One-Act Plays - Anton Chekhov - book EAN: 9782080722966 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Crocodiles - Philippe Djian - book EAN: 9782277300106 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title: Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage - Denis Diderot - book EAN: 9782253138099 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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