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Une quête au bonheur sous forme de témoignage suite à un burn-out au travail.
« Et voilà ! J'ai signé mon sixième arrêt ! Pas de mort, je vous rassure ! Sinon je ne serais pas en train d'écrire ceci. Mon sixième arrêt de travail consécutif… Que m'est-il arrivé ? Que s'est-il passé ? Pourquoi moi ? Qu'ai-je fait ? Qui suis-je ? Que suis-je ? O vais-je ? D'o je viens ? Voilà tout ce qui trotte dans ma tête depuis maintenant six...
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Alors que son amant, Chopin, est malade, George Sand décide de partir avec lui pour passer l'hiver dans un pays plus chaud
« Nous arrivâmes à Palma au mois de novembre 1838, par une chaleur comparable à celle de notre mois de juin. Nous avions quitté Paris quinze jours auparavant par un temps extrêmement froid ; ce nous fut un grand plaisir, après avoir senti les premières atteintes de l'hiver, de laisser l'ennemi derrière nous. À ce plaisir...
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A newspaperman, an ex-Navy vice-admiral, a steel worker, a farmer, and the 124th Emperor of Japan himself--these are the fascinating heroes of Gibney's brilliant book about modern Japan. Strongly individual, every one of them, the five yet share the common inheritance of Japan's precocious but unstable past. Through their lives and attitudes, Gibney gives us an invaluable analysis of this new sovereign nation so suddenly thrown into the world's power...
39466) Dersou Ouzala
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En 1902, Vladimir Arseniev, chef d'une expédition d'exploration de l'extrême-est sibérien nouvellement cédé par la Chine à la Russie, croise un vieux chasseur nommé Dersou Ouzala qui accepte de le guider à travers la taïga sauvage. Avant de devenir cinquante ans après le célèbre film d'Akira Kurosawa,Dersou Ouzala était ce livre, récit d'aventures et d'amitié, hymne à la nature et à l'homme.
Traduction de Pierre P. Wolkonsky, 1939.
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As Irish republicans sought to rid the country of British rule and influence in the early twentieth-century, a clear delineation was made between what was "authentically" Irish and what was considered to be English influence. As a member of the Anglo-Irish elite who inhabited a precarious identity somewhere in between, Irish Times editor R. M. Smyllie found himself having to navigate the painful experience of being made to feel an outsider in his...
39468) El fin del «Homo sovieticus» de Svetlana Aleksiévich (Guía de lectura): Resumen y análisis completo
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura El fin del «Homo sovieticus», una recopilación de testimonios que recoge Svetlana Aleksiévich, flamante ganadora del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 2015. En esta obra, la autora presenta una reflexión crítica acerca de la transformación política de Rusia tras la caída de la URSS, y lo hace a través de entrevistas con personas de un amplio espectro social, ayudándonos así a entender...
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The sonnets written during the Spanish Golden Age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are among the finest poems written in the Spanish language. This book presents over one hundred of the best and most representative sonnets of that period, together with translations into English sonnets and detailed critical commentaries. Garcilaso de la Vega, Góngora and Quevedo receive particular attention, but other poets such as Aldana, Lope de Vega...
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From the iconic New York Times–bestselling author of On the Road: Three revolutionary collections of poetry in one volume. Rebelling against the dry rules and literary pretentiousness he perceived in early twentieth-century poetry, Jack Kerouac pioneered a poetic style informed by oral tradition and driven by concrete language with neither embellishment nor abstraction. In these three groundbreaking collections, the legendary Beat writer offers...
39471) What We're Teaching Our Sons
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Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We're teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We're teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We're teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who've known you longer than you've...
39472) The Good Teacher
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A gripping detective mystery with a shocking twist, from the Top Ten Kindle bestselling author of The Perfect Neighbours. This riveting story about a murdered teacher is perfect for fans of Faith Martin and L. J. Ross. A beloved teacher is murdered and left in a ditch beside a country lane. His wife is found beaten and gagged in their suburban home. New detective Pippa Adams learns that the teacher ran a homework club for vulnerable pupils. But what...
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For nearly thirty years, Echoes magazine brought the culture, heritage, landscape, and people of Aroostook County to readers in Maine and across the United States. Publisher Kathryn Olmstead, who founded the magazine along with Gordon Hammond, once told a newspaper: "In our experience, a place like Aroostook County is the kind of place most people can only imagine." Olmstead and Hammond, both "from away" set out to share the experience of living in...
39474) Circadian
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Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal account with cultural narrative, only to unravel them and explore the brilliant and destructive cycles of who we are. Using poetic language and lyric structures, Clammer dives into her stories of trauma, mental illnesses, and a wide spectrum of relationships in order to understand experience through different of frameworks of thought....
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The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of the struggle, had created a world unfamiliar to the one in existence before it and brought levels of destruction and loss all too unimaginable to the generation of minds which created it. Despite this, we still find it hard to picture what it was like to...
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A carefree memoir of growing up during the golden age of VHS and video rental stores in the 1980s. This humorous nostalgia trip rewinds to an era of chunky plastic tapes, horror movie sleepovers, and rewinding woes. Relive the magic of discovering cinema through the blurry analogue footage, cheesy effects, and garish cover art of the VHS generation. A warm remembrance of all that was sublime and ridiculous about watching movies on tape during the...
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Extrait: "Double assassinat des plus singuliers. - Ce matin, vers trois heures, les habitants du quartier Saint-Roch furent réveillés par une suite de cris effrayants, qui semblaient venir du quatrième étage d'une maison de la rue Morgue, que l'on savait occupée en totalité par une dame l'Espanaye et sa fille, mademoiselle Camille l'Espanaye."
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In Plato's "Letters", Ariel Helfer provides to readers, for the first time, a highly literal translation of the Letters, complete with extensive notes on historical context and issues of manuscript transmission. His analysis presents a necessary perspective for readers who wish to study Plato's Letters as a work of Platonic philosophy.
Centuries of debate over the provenance and significance of Plato's Letters have led to the common view that the...
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The Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at singular moments, Richard Kieckhefer reveals the entanglements between these experiences and those that occur through the imagery, language, and...
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THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK is the story of one reader's long, tumultuous relationship with C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. Enchanted by its fantastic world as a child, prominent critic Laura Miller returns to the series as an adult to uncover the source of these small books' mysterious power by looking at their creator, Clive Staples Lewis. What she discovers is not the familiar, idealized image of the author, but a more interesting and ambiguous truth:...
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