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7961) Barcelona
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME:
Lovestruck in Barcelona by Enrique Vila-Matas
Supermanza 503 by Gabi Martinez
The Great Barcelona Novel by Miqui Otero
plus: the complex legacy of the Olympics; the future of Catalonia; the radical left and the once best in the world soccer team; an endless subway line, and much more...
Thirty years after the 1992...
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Once upon a time, salad was iceberg lettuce with a few shredded carrots and a cucumber slice, if you were lucky. A vegetable side was potatoes-would you like those baked, mashed, or au gratin? A nice anniversary dinner? Would you rather visit the Holiday Inn or the Regency Inn? In Grand Forks, North Dakota, a small town where professor's moonlight as farmers, farmers moonlight as football coaches, and everyone loves hockey, one woman has had the answers...
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The romance of Grace Schulman and her husband, Jerome, a distinguished scientist, burgeons in New York's Greenwich Village amid the cultural revolution of the 1960s. Their bond stays brilliantly alive through various trials, including a decade of living apart. "In my experience, the phrase 'happy marriage' is as oxymoronic as 'friendly fire' or 'famous poet.' My marriage has been a feast of contradiction. . . "
Schulman's passion for poetry leads...
7964) A Man of Two Faces
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The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The
Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide
With insight, humor, formal invention, and lyricism, in A Man of Two
Faces Viet Thanh Nguyen rewinds the film of his own life. He expands the genre of
personal memoir by acknowledging larger stories of refugeehood, colonization,
and ideas about Vietnam and America, writing with his...
7965) The Art of Flight
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The debut work in English by Mexico's greatest and most influential living author and winner of the Cervantes Prize ("the Spanish language Nobel"), The Art of Flight takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the world's cultural capitals as Sergio Pitol looks back on his well-traveled life as a legendary author, translator, scholar, and diplomat.
The first work in Pitol's "Trilogy of Memory," The Art of Flight imaginatively blends the genres of fiction...
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Fortement impressionné par l'Antigone de Sophocle alors qu'il n'est encore qu'un adolescent, Jean Anouilh décide de s'emparer du mythe à son tour durant l'Occupation. Mais l'Antigone qu'il dépeint est, cette fois, un personnage perdu entre l'enfance et la femme qu'elle se sent devenir et qui, cette fois, a bien conscience du destin qui l'attend. À tout juste 20 ans, elle s'avance vers son destin, vers cette mort inévitable qui l'attend parce...
7967) Le journal intime d'un homme de Chambre: Député-Maire, ou les infortunes du politiquement correct
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365 jours de réflexions d'un homme public !
Loin des sentiers battus, dans un livre « politique » inclassable, l'auteur, à travers ses souvenirs d'enfance, ses premiers amours, sa crise de la quarantaine, son goût pour les voyages ou son expérience professionnelle, dévoile, sans tabou, ses impressions, ses émotions et ses réflexions.
En faisant partager un an de sa vie (son journal s'étale du 1er septembre 2015 au 31 août 2016), le...
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Toutes les œuvres de Jean de la Fontaine réunies en un seul ebook
Découvrez l'œuvre de Jean de la Fontaine dans son ensemble et emmenez-la partout avec vous !
À propos de la collection GrandsClassiques.com :
La collection GrandsClassiques.com a pour objectif de mettre à disposition des lecteurs les œuvres complètes des incontournables de la littérature. Un soin tout particulier est apporté à ces versions afin de garantir une qualité...
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Proche du mythe, l'épopée chante l'histoire d'une tradition, un complexe de représentations sociales, politiques, religieuses, un code moral, une esthétique. À travers le récit des épreuves et des hauts faits d'un héros ou d'une héroïne, elle met en lumière un monde total, une réalité vivante, un savoir sur le monde.
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The complete last essays of acclaimed writer Peter Schjeldahl, the great New Yorker art critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist.
Foreword by Steve Martin
Introduction by Jarrett Earnest
When the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl published his widely read autobiographical essay "The Art of Dying" in December 2019, he reported that he had lung cancer and his oncologist had given him six months to live, but his experimental treatment was...
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Extrait : "On n'a pas oublié les débats passionnés, les discussions orageuses, qu'a soulevés, dans le public et dans la presse, la question des Eaux de Paris. Tout récemment encore, M. Robinet, le savant rapporteur du projet de dérivation des sources de la Dhuis, adressait, sous le couvert anodin d'une Lettre à un conseiller d'État, une vigoureuse réplique à ses contradicteurs, ou, pour parler plus exactement, aux adversaires des projets...
7972) Black Fire
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While many texts are readily available chronicling the Black Power Movement, the same cannot be said for its "aesthetic and spiritual sister," the Black Arts Movement. Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing is a rare exception that documents and captures the social and cultural turmoil of the period. Amiri Baraka and Larry Neal, co-editors and contributors to this volume, saw Black Fire as a manifesto to bring about change in Black thought...
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The theme of the peasantry is central throughout most of Tolstoy's long career. His obsession with this class is seen not just as a matter of social or humanitarian concern, but as a response to the questions of "how to live a good life" and "what is the meaning of life that an inevitable death will not destroy?" These questions plagued him his entire life.
The letters he exchanged with the four major peasant sectarian writers (Bondarev, Zheltov,...
7975) A Loom of One's Own
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This crafting celebration of literary classics will transport you and your scissors far from your kitchen table: allow your Mod Podge to smooth your way into the Gilded Age with ‘The Decoupage of Innocence’, or your craft knife to help you conceal an illicit eBook with ‘Lady Chatterley’s Kindle Cover’. Or simply create the perfect picnic accessory, to be enjoyed alongside some ginger beer with ‘Five Go to Smuggler’s Cake Topper’.
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80 histoires pour voyager grâce à la lecture.
Depuis Mythologies jusqu'aux Conquérants, en passant par Du bon usage des moyens de transport, Les Vagabonds ou Partir en mer, Marc Wiltz, éditeur de livres de voyage depuis quinze ans, a « classé » quatre-vingts livres dont il s'est nourri pour ses propres voyages. Pour en faire connaître certains ou mieux comprendre d'autres, et pour dire l'affection profonde qu'il ressent pour leurs auteurs,...
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"How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!" -Henry David Thoreau
Since his death in 1862, Henry David Thoreau has left an indelible mark on the American mind. A vocal champion of simple living and social equality, he is revered for his tempered prose, gentle words, and wise observations. His most well-known work, Walden, is still read around...
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Des méditations passionnantes autour du modèle spirituel de Marie
Marie, fleur de l'humanité, première disciple du Christ, Parole de Dieu en actes, mère ouverte sur toute l'humanité dans sa diversité, si grande et pourtant si proche, elle est si belle, Marie. « On ne saurait parler d'elle: on la chante » écrit dans un de ses plus beaux textes de méditation, Chiara Lubich , fondatrice du mouvement des Focolari également connu dans l'Église...
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Mark Jacobson has published pieces in Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Esquire, and more. His journalistic beats range far and wide, delving into the realms of politics, sports, and celebrities in pieces on such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Julius Erving, Chuck Berry, Pam Grier (in her Scream Blacula Scream days), Martin Scorsese, and many others. But for Jacobson, New York City has always been topic number one.
Jacobson tells the story of the city...
7980) Le Duel
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Romachov, jeune sous-lieutenant d'un régiment en garnison dans une ville de province, rêve d'une haute carrière mais se heurte aux violences de la vie quotidienne au sein de l'armée et à la vie provinciale dont la médiocrité l'écœure. Il ne trouve de lumière que dans son amour encore platonique pour Chourotchka, la femme d'un autre officier. Publié en 1905, peu après la fin de la guerre russo-japonaise, ce roman qui valut la célébrité...
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