Title : Audrey, the Vagabond - Danielle Steel - book Summary Having grown up in San Francisco with an eccentric millionaire grandfather, Audrey, like most women of her time, could have settled for a successful marriage. But she has a passion for travel. In 1933, at the age of twenty-six, she set sail for Europe alone. It was at Cap d'Antibes that she met the famous writer and explorer Charles Parker-Scott. Her pleasure trip then turned into a real journey and took her to the far reaches of China. But world events suddenly intervened: Japan had just attacked China. Charles returned to Europe and Audrey, because of her grandfather, refused to marry him and returned to San Francisco. Thus began a tumultuous comings and goings, with the ever-looming threat of World War II as a backdrop. A great success from Danielle Steel, the novelist who has sold three hundred million copies worldwide. EAN : 9782253053583 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 : Palomino - Danielle Steel - book Summary Money, seduction, professional success... Everything is going well for Samantha, an advertising designer in New York, until the day her husband, John, a star television presenter, abruptly leaves her for someone else. Dejected and disoriented, she takes refuge at a friend's California ranch. There, rekindling a teenage passion for horses, she meets Tate Jordan, a tough and proud cowboy who rekindles her joy in life... before inexplicably running away. Alone again, the victim of a terrible accident, she will have to fight to give meaning to her life and be able to believe in happiness again. One of the first works that earned Danielle Steel - along with Family Album, Loving, Zoya... - the favor of millions of readers in more than eighty countries. EAN : 9782277220701 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 : Kamouraska - Anne Hébert - book Summary "Anne Hébert is the best-known of Quebec writers. A notoriety that dates in particular from the publication, in 1971, of the very romantic Kamouraska . » The Cross At the bedside of her dying husband, Elisabeth d'Aulnières watches over her own memory. Buried beneath time and dreams, the memories of her tumultuous youth resurface: the story, in 1839, of her sullied innocence, of a tragic passion of flesh and blood, of love and death. A secret hidden beneath the opaque silence of appearances and honor. A desperate love buried alive beneath the snows of Quebec... A great voice of Quebec literature, Anne Hébert (1916-2000) is the author of novels, plays, short story collections and poetry. Winner of the Booksellers' Prize in 1971, Kamouraska was brought to the screen. The Northern Gannets (Femina Prize 1982) and The Child Laden with Dreams are also available at Points. EAN : 9782020061230 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : A Little Tour of the Hindu Kush - Eric Newby - book Summary When, in 1956, Eric Newby decided to leave for Nuristan, this particularly rugged and wild region of Afghanistan, he knew nothing about Afghans, mountaineering and, frankly, travel... His legendary humor and an unsuspected practical sense would allow him to escape the worst traps. EAN : 9782228895408 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Disincarnation - Jean Rouaud - book Summary "At that precise moment, literature was hanging by a thread. Two friends advised a third, who had just read them a long melody into which he had put the best of himself, to give it up altogether. No big deal, we'll say. Literature will recover. Yes, but not like before. Literature's survival here, in Croisset, near Rouen, requires renunciation. For young Gustave, the good-for-nothing son of Doctor Flaubert, until then had a different idea of ​​it. For many months, in his Temptation of Saint Anthony, he had indulged in "desperate style" that he would never recover. To cure his "cancer of lyricism," Maxime Du Camp and Louis Bouilhet, the two friends, prescribed him a drastic treatment: write a novel "à la Balzac," "down to earth." It would be, by force and duress, Madame Bovary. The times ahead were not easy. for those who favor the phrase and the song. From now on, realism imposes its iron law, the visions are sent back to the desert and the dead are asked not to be resurrected. As if this fission between earth and heaven referred to another secret war, unleashed several centuries ago around this question of the dual nature. The meeting at Croisset, the ultimate avatar of the Council of Nicaea? Jean Rouaud. EAN : 9782070425457 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 : Kidneys and Hearts - Paul-André LESORT - book Summary Husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and lovers, cousins ​​and comrades, near and far, all the characters in this book weave together the bonds of a visible society, that of a middle-class group in France on the eve of war. But also more secret bonds, those that connect their consciences, their visions of the world. How the story of each of them is seen by others, and how each of them sees their own story, the reader witnesses by participating successively in a few moments of the life of each of them. EAN : B0014UCFKI Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Insomnia - John Cheever - book Summary The short stories of John Cheever, that physician of the American soul who enchanted readers of the prestigious New Yorker for decades, are the keystone of American literature in the second half of the 20th century. The torments, neuroses, and defeats of the average American are examined as signs and symptoms of a society simultaneously disintegrating and renewing itself. The impossibility of saying things and living one's dreams without compromise: such is the secret thread that runs from one to the other of these sixteen short stories, chosen from among sixty that received the Pulitzer Prize in 1978, one of which, "5:48 PM," was taken up and continued by Raymond Carver in the collection The Vitamins of Happiness. EAN : 9782253933595 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Christianity under accusation - Marc Leboucher, René Rémond - book Summary After centuries of history, Christianity often appears as the accused. Alongside expressions of curiosity or historical interest, it is fashionable to make it a sort of scapegoat, held responsible for certain blockages in society: one will denounce "Judeo-Christian morality," another will denounce the burdens of a society marked by centuries of Catholicism, a third will condemn a religion that exalts passivity or weakness... How can we understand this accusation, this discredit, at a time when Christianity seems weakened? Should we attribute them to older causes or to an inevitable destiny? Should we also see in them the consequences of a Christian spirituality often obsessed with sin and death? Finally, is Christianity capable of leaving traces, key values ​​in history? René Rémond and Marc Leboucher analyze this rejection and question the future of a tradition which, without doubt, has not had its last word. EAN : 9782226149039 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : The Man with the Windy Soles - Michel Le Bris - book Summary We will go one day, beyond the horizon, in search of our Irelands. "What would a journey be without the book that enlivens it and prolongs its trace - without the rustling of all those books that we read before setting off? Samarkand, Trebizond, so many words, from childhood, that were like doors to us, so many stories, so many legends!" EAN : 9782228894982 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : An Island in the Wind - Barbara Kingsolver - book Summary Twelve short stories, like so many capsules of Kingsolver in a nutshell. Simple and disturbingly accurate stories that exalt the strength and fragility of women. Always intimately embedded in an XXL America, they are here dignified, tenacious, and rebellious in the face of adversity. Of all ages, from all walks of life, they try to make sense of their trials and strive to become themselves. Barbara Kingsolver's political charge and evocative power have not lost an iota of intensity since the first publication of this book in 1989. EAN : 9782743614676 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : How to Support Your Freedom - Chantal Thomas - book Summary The spirit of independence - its insolence, its euphoria, its strength of detachment - blows for each person according to a singular biographical disposition, at the whim of moments which, perhaps insignificant from the outside, are inscribed in us as the decisive moments of our history. This essay speaks of the importance of knowing how to seize them on the fly. The taste for play, the desire to laugh, the art of travel, the pleasure of reading, the right to say no to the chain of obligations and that of generations are the elements of an enjoyment as fragile as it is vital of one's freedom. EAN : 9782743606091 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert - book Summary A young eighteen-year-old provincial, full of dreams and rather attractive, comes to study in Paris. From 1840 to the evening of the coup d'état of 1851, he learns about the world in a society in full upheaval. Along the way, he encounters true love and the contingencies of pleasure, the Revolution and its false apostles, art, the power of money and stupidity, the reversibility of beliefs, fraternal friendship and the inevitability of betrayals, without managing to commit himself to any cause other than that of following the loss of his illusions. Written in dazzling language and according to unprecedented narrative rules, L'Education sentimentale , published in 1869, is perhaps Flaubert's most accomplished and mysterious masterpiece. In seeking to represent the very essence of lived time, the author conveys to us a philosophy of history, a morality of existence and an aesthetic of memory that remain surprisingly relevant for elucidating the enigmas of today. EAN : 9782253010692 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : Working with Bourdieu - Rose-Marie Lagrave - book Summary They are sociologists, historians, anthropologists, linguists, economists... Some are fellow travelers, others have been close to Bourdieu, at one time or another. All bear witness to an experience of working with him in the double sense of the term: working together and theory in action that continues to regenerate scientific approaches and practices. Hence the diversity of contributions but also the singularity of the tone of this work, unclassifiable according to current academic rules: from the account of a fragment of life, passing through the anecdotal trait, to the analysis of theoretical and methodological contributions, all registers intersect, attesting that working with Bourdieu has not calibrated thought or ways of doing things. These different positions and objects reveal new facets and readings of Bourdieu, which concern as much reflexivity, the logic of practice, classifications as the economy of symbolic goods and forms of domination. In many contributions, the emotion of memory also emerges, through modest touches, a sort of reminder of the sensitive conditions of scientific production, often passed over in silence and yet which are part of the daily life of the researcher. If one had to speak of homage, it is an anti-academic homage that the authors of this book wanted to pay to the author of Homo academicus. EAN : 9782080801128 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : In My Footsteps - Gregor von Rezzori - book Summary Following in the footsteps of his own life, from this space of deterritorialization that is Bukovina, Rezzori inevitably sets out on the trail of a Europe that is constantly recomposing itself. Like a photograph immersed in a developer bath, the images of these periods become clearer as they are evoked, reconstituting themselves into a framework to form the story of a turbulent and irreversible destiny. Neither fresco nor autobiography, this work in perpetual movement, written with a lively and jubilant, impertinent pen, precisely renders this ambiguous universe where the feeling of isolation, the tearing apart of identity, the quest for a saving denial combine in such a way that Claudio Magris ranks Rezzori among the great names of "Austrian" literature, alongside Musil and Doderer. We could add Joseph Roth and Elias Canetti. Gregor von Rezzori (1914-1997) is one of the great names in European literature. His most famous books include: The Dirty Ermine (Gallimard); Oedipus at Stalingrad (Salvy); My Brother Abel (Salvy); Snow of Yesteryear (Éditions de l'Olivier); The Swan (Éditions du Rocher). EAN : 9782268059396 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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Title : This stranger who resembles me - Jean Daniel - book Summary "When you see your life unfold, you say to yourself, in front of certain scenes: how could I have? And in front of others: who is this man?..." Facing Martine de Rabaudy, Jean Daniel takes a new distance from what he has experienced most intimately. A writer watches a journalist live. He sees without indulgence, at the heart of this story, a foreigner sure of himself in action and skeptical in ideas, peremptory and disenchanted, aesthete and committed, secular and mystical, Gidian, Camusian, Mendésist, faithful to a certain idea of ​​the left and who is trying to survive the death of utopias and the failures of decolonization. This foreigner who resembles me thus revisits the adventure of a journalist-writer and, through him, that of the weekly he founded in 1964, Le Nouvel Observateur, grappling with his century. EAN : 9782070319831 Used book Book in good condition The book matches the photo

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