Title : Through the Wall - Patricia Wentworth - book Summary : Come on, it's that exquisite time when you choose an armchair and treat yourself to an hour elsewhere. On the detective side. For those who crave something sweet, there's no hesitation: Patricia Wentworth. Another Englishwoman, as clever as a cat, who knows how to remarkably combine five o'clock tea and blood on the carpet. It's harmless, it's graceful, it's sometimes irreplaceable: because the world then appears deliciously harmless. Charming Englishwomen, from Dorothy Sayers to Ngaio Marsh, are therapeutic. For the space of a read, you're protected. It's as precious as a fairy tale. EAN : 9782264021595 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Quattrocento - Stephen Greenblatt - book Summary : What if the Renaissance was born from a book? A lost book, known in fragments, copied by a few monks and rediscovered by a humanist mad about ancient manuscripts? The idea, bold and dizzying, opens the doors to the story of Poggio Bracciolini, known as Pogge, who discovered a copy of Lucretius's De rerum natura in a German monastery. This was at the dawn of the 15th century. Pogge was not only a passionate bibliophile and an outstanding copyist. He loved the arts and had written bawdy jokes. He loved women and was the father of nineteen children. He did not love the Church, but was secretary to a diabolically intelligent and corrupt pope. His discovery would precipitate modern times and influence minds as powerful as Botticelli, Montaigne, and Machiavelli. EAN : 9782081312814 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Remember Hallows Farm - Angela Huth - book Summary : With the Second World War over, Prue returns to the family hairdressing salon in Manchester where her mother is waiting for her. The memory of Hallows Farm, where she was a farm volunteer on Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence's farm, is as vivid as the friendship she maintains with her friends Ag - Agatha - and Stella. On the way home, Prue and her mother meet Barry, a wealthy middle-aged man. With this encounter, Prue soon becomes the promise of a life where luxury vies with opulence. While at first the young woman seems fulfilled, she constantly thinks back to her past and to Hallows Farm... A novel about friendship and nostalgia, Hallows Farm is also the story of a woman in turmoil, grappling with the prejudices of her time and searching for happiness. EAN : 9782070448302 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man Without Fingerprints - Eric Faye - book Summary : SCAM François Billetdoux Prize 2008 Who is the mysterious writer B. Osborn? While a former lover, a journalist, and even a Hitchcock haunted by Kim Novak, seek to unravel his identity, the puzzle of a man obsessed with 20th-century history who has constantly hidden himself behind his work gradually comes together. From Central America to the Baltic, this biographical quest brilliantly poses the question of the erasure of the artist, "an immaterial being," "a thought that unfolds." The Man Without Fingerprints received the François-Billetdoux Prize in 2008. EAN : 9782290034378 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Beatus ille - Antonio Munoz Molina - book Summary : In 1969, Minaya, a 25-year-old student, discovered the posthumous manuscript of a certain Jacinto Solana, shot dead in 1947 by Franco's police. Eager to investigate the poet's life and disappearance, he went to Magina, a small town where Solana wrote his work and where Manuel, Minaya's uncle, still lives. By questioning the few survivors of the civil war and with the help of Ines, whose lover he quickly becomes, he brings to light Magina's past and enigmas that were thought to be forever buried in the silences of memory. EAN : 9782020133241 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : HERE IS THE TRAVEL SEASON stopovers in the Mediterranean with 19th century writers - Collective - book Summary : See photos EAN : 3010000021681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Brave Men of Tennessee - Erskine Caldwell - book Summary : Erskine Caldwell, the American writer, the man of the South, the defender of the disinherited, black and white, has become today, like Faulkner, a classic. The son of a Georgia minister, he had practiced all the trades, cotton picker, professional football player, reporter and screenwriter... His rich experience of men and the United States, he owed it to his travels and his patient observation. Witness to a society, he became its spokesperson and its interpreter. A great deal of indignation combined with an inexhaustible verve against a backdrop of generosity, this is Caldwell the "storyteller", the one who wanted above all to make the world of the South known and who knew how to ferocity describe "the good people of Tennessee", racist, hypocritical, miserable, pathetic and occasionally lynchers. EAN : 9782253041276 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Candido - Leonardo Sciascia - book Summary : To the complicated problems of post-war Italy, Candido provides simple, too simple, answers. Because he naturally trusts people, he clashes with all the followers of the combinazione, unmasks them, and ridicules them: Christian Democrat leaders, communist activists, wealthy landowners, priests, and magistrates... In today's Sicily, Leornado Sciascia's Candido is no less provocative than Voltaire's hero was in our country two centuries earlier. EAN : 9782020058681 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Palace of Books - Roger Grenier - book Summary : By taking somewhat unconventional paths, for example by looking at what place writers give to news items, to the delights and pangs of waiting, to the temptation of the unfinished, to the relationship between private life and writing, to the way of writing about love, these essays quite naturally adopt Baudelaire's claim on the right to contradict oneself. And they lead to two questions: What is writing? Is writing a reason for living? Both, as one might expect, can only remain unanswered. EAN : 9782070448470 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Kôsaku - Yasushi Inoué - book Summary : This book brings together seven completely new short stories. In these small literary masterpieces, we find at every moment the lyrical sobriety, the light density and the refined writing that characterize the great carver of Japanese literature. EAN : 9782234053397 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : When you are at Proust the war will be over - Hubert Nyssen - book Summary : Having made his career in publishing in Paris, Paul Leleu retired to a village between the Gris-Nez and Blanc-Nez capes. There, he gave himself twelve months to write to a former lover, who might never read it, an epistle in which he questions the meaning of his life and the role of the people who have passed through it. This is an opportunity for him to call upon the women, writers, translators, and publishers he has known: he battles with his memories, sometimes gives up, then returns to them with the impulses, illusions, mistrust, and passion inspired by the peerless mystifiers that are memory, dreams, and imagination. Language and reading are at the forefront of this testamentary and jubilant account of a publisher who would like to understand why the fascination with the text was sometimes so close to that which he had for certain women. Born in 1925 in Brussels, naturalized French, Hubert Nyssen settled in Provence in 1968. A writer, he is the author of some thirty works. A publisher, he founded Actes Sud just thirty years ago. A Doctor of Letters, he taught at the universities of Aix-en-Provence and Liège. EAN : 9782742772599 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Turning Point - Story of a Life - Klaus Mann - book Summary : THE TURNING POINT Story of a Life Born in 1906, Klaus Mann, the eldest son of Thomas Mann, was a precocious writer who, at eighteen, had already published a play and a collection of short stories. Alone or with his sister Erika, he began from that moment to travel the world - Europe, Asia, the United States... But, very quickly, this carefree and free life of a dandy of the Roaring Twenties - hard drugs, sex, open homosexuality - was interrupted by the rise of Nazism, which he resolutely opposed from the start. A promising writer encouraged by Cocteau and Gide, he founded in exile an anti-fascist magazine to which Einstein, Brecht, Trotsky, Pasternak, Roth and Hemingway notably contributed, and participated, in 1934, in the preparation of the International Congress for the Defense of Culture with René Crevel. After serving as a war correspondent in Spain on the Republican side, he settled in the United States in 1938, and it was in American uniform that he was to return to a ruined Germany. His novels - Flight to the North, The Volcano, Mephisto - already contained numerous autobiographical fragments. But it was not until The Turning Point, which he completed shortly before his suicide in Cannes in 1949, at the age of forty-two, that he masterfully painted the tragic fresco of his time. The beauty of the book lies in this strangeness: it is the unconfessed autobiography of a man more attentive to others and to his time than to himself. EAN : 9782742773589 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Romance of Bergen volume II - Gunnar Staalesen - book Summary : The curtain rises on Bergen ten years after the fire that devastated it. Sven and Per, the sons of Christian Moland, have become sworn enemies in the social strike that is shaking Norway. The conflict between unionists and the police rages, and the world is panicking, between the stock market crash and the rise of fascism. In Bergen, the icy wind is still blowing, and a certain "Miss Pedersen" resurfaces from the past... Gunnar Staalesen was born in 1947 in Bergen, Norway. He is famous for his series of crime novels featuring private eye Varg Veum. This is the second volume of his major social epic about his Norwegian hometown: The Bergen Novel. "Staalesen has the generosity of a Balzac and the power of a Thomas Mann." The Express Translated from Norwegian by Alexis Fouillet EAN : 9782757823712 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Sleeper of Naples - Adrien Goetz - book Summary : Three handwritten notebooks invite us to investigate: one is said to be a confession by Ingres, another was written by Corot, and the third by an unknown artist, a friend of Géricault, in the secrecy of the studios. The subject of this investigation: The Sleeper of Naples, an enigmatic painting by Ingres, which has disappeared and which aroused many desires... But it is not only the quality of the painting and its disappearance that make it such a myth. The model who inspired the painter is full of mysteries. Who was the beautiful young woman that Ingres considered "already painted" because she was so perfect in his eyes? And what became of the painting? A quest for beauty as much as a literary and artistic investigation, this story by Adrien Goetz brings to life the atmosphere of the mythical Italy of painters and the bohemian Paris of the Romantics. Prix des deux Magots, 2004. Prix Roger Nimier, 2004. EAN : 9782020684187 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Northern Kingdom Volume 1 - Harricana - Bernard Clavel - book Summary : There, in the Canadian Far North, there was only the infinity of space, snow as far as the eye could see, and intense cold. Everything seemed to reject man. And yet, at the beginning of the 20th century, men were beginning to enter this land, eager to conquer it, to hunt there, to find gold there... Thus, this family of pioneers whose astonishing epic story Bernard Clavel brings to life for us, woven with dramas and exploits. And, on this day, starting from scratch after four failures, the Robillards embark on a utopian adventure: to found a new village on the banks of the Harricana. Since childhood, Bernard Clavel dreamed of this "Kingdom" of the North. He finally discovered it, explored it, loved it in its reality and through it his romantic inspiration has been further expanded and renewed. EAN : 9782277221531 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Labors of Hercules - Camille Laurens - book Summary : The "private" mission resembles an all-expenses-paid vacation in the sun, even if the mysterious sponsor hides her features, even if the game is, in fact, to find a needle in a haystack. He sets out to find a Jacques, only to discover that it is in fact a Simon who disappeared without leaving an address, with his wife, child, and even dog. He discovers secrets, complicity, silences that speak volumes. But if the investigation seems to be progressing well, it also turns out that the search for the truth is similar to a path marked by obstacles that look like mirrors! At the end of an initiatory journey worthy of Hercules, our hero will find the answer he so longs for. But since, in the meantime, the question has changed, perhaps he will be nothing more, then, than the protagonist of one of those modern novels where demigods fail and lovers are not worthy of being loved... EAN : 9782070412587 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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