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A memoir is only a slice of a life. This 'questory' (quest + history) covers more than the beloved cake-eating hippo. 'Not Just a Piece of Cake' is a candid memoir of the realistic process of the process of creativity, via anecdotes. 'Anecdultery' is a Hazel original term for story. Hazel Edwards takes the reader behind the books. She shares the humor of a diverse work style and family life behind the beloved characters like the cake-eating hippo....
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Plongée avec brutalité et raffinement au cœur de l'Histoire et de l'ahurissante destruction du vieux quartier du Panier à Marseille
1943... 1993. À cinquante ans d'intervalle, deux trains quittent Marseille et font route vers le nord. 1993. Un train bleu, bouillonnant de cris, de rires et de chants, emmène un millier de supporters marseillais vers Munich o leur club sera sacré champion d'Europe. 1943. Un long train noir, pétrifié par la...
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En "Inventario de recuerdos", María Elena D′Alessandro Bello realiza un análisis de la literatura escrita desde y sobre Caracas a partir de la propuesta de tres novelistas y cinco novelas: "El exilio del tiempo" (1990), "Vagas desapariciones" (1995) y "Los últimos espectadores del acorazado Potemkin" (1999) de Ana Teresa Torres; "Juegos bajo la luna" (1994) de Carlos Noguera y "El round del olvido" (2002) de Eduardo Liendo. A partir de estas...
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Dracula FAQ unearths little-known facts about both the historical and literary Dracula. The 15th-century warlord Vlad III, known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula (son of the Dragon), became a legendary figure in his native Wallachia. Four hundred years later, Irish author Bram Stoker appropriated Dracula's name for a vampire novel he spent seven years researching and writing.
Considered one of the great classics of Gothic literature, Dracula went...
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Gastón Soublette, en estas páginas, plasma una lectura sapiencial, atenta a la sabiduría ancestral y bíblica que recorre especialmente los poemas "La lámpara en la tierra" y "Alturas de Macchu Picchu", del Canto general, de Pablo Neruda. Es un modo de leer abierto a la hondura de la poesía y movilizado por el deseo de la verdad, aquella posible de decir y de leer, de escuchar y de escribir. Pablo Neruda, profeta de América fue publicado por...
28346) Fiche de lecture : Moi, Malala de Malala Yousafzai: Résumé complet et analyse détaillée de l'oeuvre
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Décryptez Moi, Malala, je lutte pour l'éducation et je résiste aux talibans de Malala Yousafzai avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr !
Que faut-il retenir de Moi, Malala, je lutte pour l'éducation et je résiste aux talibans, le témoignage bouleversant de la lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix en 2014 ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette...
28347) Lie Down in Darkness
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William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family - Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. Written in...
28348) La Maîtresse
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Extrait : "MAURICE : Comme je vous embrasserai ! BLANCHE : Mon pauvre ami, ce qui nous arrive me désole, et je jure que je ne m'y attendais pas. Je ne voyais en vous qu'un garçon bien élevé, bon danseur, causeur agréable, mais sceptique. Je me disais : – Il n'aimera jamais personne. Sans penser à mal, je vous demandais de me reconduire, et voici que, tout à coup, vous m'aimez, vous souffrez et vous me faites souffrir. Oh ! je m'en veux."
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28349) The Real World Stories III
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The Real World Stories III is a collection of Short Stories dealing with Life, Loss. Love and the ways in which people find to survive the very diffucult situations that the World thrusts upon us. Much of the work is derived from real life situations experienced by the Author.
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A delightful collection of seventy miniature fictions and comics riffing on the theme of happiness, The Great Happiness offers a series of lively antidotes to the current climate of doom. Some of the book's miniatures are narratives with a twist, others are imaginative flights, such as the recently dead experimental novelist "sitting in" on the obituary-writing session convened by her husband, or the woman who rescues an Atlantic lobster from her...
28351) Impasse Dignité
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Emmelie Prophète fait partie des générations de femmes auteures haïtiennes contemporaines comme Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, Edwidge Danticat.
Impasse Dignité, c'est le quartier éponyme. Les jeunes ont baptisé leur impasse Dignité, par nécessité de citoyenneté. Ils refusent, par ce geste, l'exclusion et revendiquent une identité et l'illusion d'habiter un pays. Ensemble, ils vont apprendre à faire foule, à brasser...
28352) Black Crow White Lie
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Black Crow White Lie tells the story of young Carson Calley. He has a rare and magical gift of healing, a gift which both defines him and threatens to betray him. He lives in Hollywood motels with his alcoholic, fortune-telling mother, Juliette. She nurtures his gift, but her ways are deceptive. She feeds the boy fantastical stories to convince him of his greatness. At fourteen, Carson finally wises up to her lies and his identity is completely shattered....
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From Academy Award-winning film director Neil Jordan comes an artful reimagining of an extraordinary friendship spanning the revolutionary tumult of the eighteenth century.
South Carolina, 1781: the American Revolution.
An enslaved man escaping to his freedom saves the life of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, a British army officer and the younger son of one of Ireland's grandest families.
The tale that unfolds is narrated by Tony Small, the formerly...
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Revenge: A Tale of Old Jamaica (1919) is a novel by H. G. de Lisser. Born and raised in Jamaica, H. G. de Lisser was one of the leading Caribbean writers of the early twentieth century. Concerned with issues of race, urban life, and modernization, de Lisser dedicated his career to representing the lives and concerns of poor and middle-class Jamaicans. In Revenge: A Tale of Old Jamaica, de Lisser portrays the deadly Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865, a...
28355) The Lava in My Bones
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A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to...
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From the author of To the Finland Station comes a deeply personal and incisive memoir, A Piece of My Mind.
Edmund Wilson, often considered to be the greatest American literary critic of the twentieth century, reflects back on life in his sixth decade with this insightful intellectual autobiography that covers topics ranging from Religion, War, the USA, Europe, Russia, Jews, Education, Science, Sex, and much more, all examined with his characteristic...
28358) Pears on a Willow Tree
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Pears on a Willow Tree is a multigenerational roadmap of love and hate, distance and closeness, and the lure of roots that both bind and sustain us all.
The Marchewka women are inseparable. They relish the joys of family gatherings; from preparing traditional holiday meals to organizing a wedding in which each of them is given a specific task -- whether it's sewing the bridal gown or preserving pickles as a gift to the newlyweds. Bound together by...
28359) Beneath the World, a Sea
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South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of Duendes. These silent, vaguely humanoid creatures with long limbs and black button eyes have a strange psychic effect on people, unleashing the subconscious and exposing their innermost thoughts and fears. Ben becomes fascinated by the Duendes, but the closer he gets, the more he begins to unravel, with terrifying results....
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THE MUSTANG CHRONICLES, VOL. 1: ROCKETT '68 is a literary, lyrical action novel written in the Picaresque tradition. The story unfolds from the perspective of the hero, or villain depending on your opinion about such matters, in the first-person present tense. Gripping, taut prose intertwines with more lyrical passages like a singular wine perfectly paired with its course. For connoisseurs and casual readers alike, this novel serves up a savory, stimulating...
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