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Movie Life

Autore: Ylan Corso

Numero di pagine: 322

1er tome d'une histoire qui transporte son lecteur dans l'aventure d'une vie qui ne sera jamais ordinaire malgré un personnage principal des plus communs, en apparence, d'un inconnu... Suite à des évènements de différentes natures, de chocs, tous récurrents, trop pour paraitre anodins, d'une foi qui lui est aussi propre que nouvelle, ce dernier en vient à s'interroger. Il établit une forme de bilan comme de nombreux quadras de notre notre époque, en quête de réponses, à toutes ces questions existentielles. L'histoire d'une vie regroupant tous les genres cinématographiques, à travers les pays, les lieux, les situations, les rencontres, les expériences qui contribueront à forger ce personnage, de son enfance durant les 70's aux années 80 de son adolescence puis 90 lorsqu'il deviendra un début d'adulte. Le lecteur se trouve immergé comme dans un film dont il se délecte, en attendant de connaitre la suite de la vie de ce personnage original et attachant, qui deviendra un homme dans le prochain tome...

Ce qui est élevé dans l'os

Autore: Grant Allen

Numero di pagine: 338

Elma Clifford s'est retrouvée poussée, au hasard, au tout dernier moment, dans le dernier compartiment de la dernière voiture du train - seule - avec un artiste. Maintenant, vous et moi, bien sûr, le lecteur le plus proverbialement courtois et intelligent, n'aurions peut-être jamais deviné à première vue, de l'aspect extérieur du jeune homme, la nature de son occupation. Mais elle l'a immédiatement reconnu pour ce qu'il était, et elle avait raison, et son nom était Cyril Waring. Il était l'amour de sa vie. Même dans ce premier instant, Elma le savait probablement. Le problème, c'était que cela semblait être une vie courte. Avant que le train n'atteigne sa prochaine gare, un tunnel dans lequel il voyageait s'est effondré sur eux. . . . Tout d'un coup une secousse rapide de la voiture a tiré leur train à l'improviste. Elma était consciente d'un bruit fort et d'un fracas devant, suivi presque instantanément d'un bocal palpitant - un bruit sourd sourd - un bruit de verre brisé - un arrêt rapide et blanc. L'instant d'après, elle se trouva follement jetée dans les bras de sa voisine, tandis que l'artiste, de son côté, les mains tendues, s'efforçait en vain...

Cortex

Autore: Ann Scott

Numero di pagine: 310

Los Angeles, aujourd’hui. La cérémonie des Oscars va commencer. Plus de trois mille personnes dans la salle. Soudain, une explosion. Au cur du chaos, très vite, les rumeurs courent. Julia Roberts, Steven Spielberg, Al Pacino... Qui est mort, qui est blessé ? Dans cet Hollywood qui pleure ses icônes, Angie, une jeune réalisatrice française, Russ, un vieux producteur californien, et Burt, un humoriste new-yorkais, se croisent pendant quelques jours. Entre amours perdues, sidération et passion du cinéma, chacun se demande : de quoi sera fait le futur, sans tous ces visages familiers qui ont façonné nos rêves ?

Père et Repère-Moi

Autore: Lou Salinger

Numero di pagine: 252

Marcel, 68 ans, râle sans cesse. Jusqu'au jour où ce vieux ronchon découvre qu'un cancer détruit son ADN. C'est le début d'une nouvelle vie. Une révélation qui va le mener à enfin se faire plaisir. Même si pour cela, il faut transgresser les lois et tout remettre en question.Père et repère-moi, c'est l'histoire au premier abord un peu clichée d'un homme qui malgré toutes ses réussites n'arrive pas à pleinement investir sa vie. Parce qu'il a eu autrefois un petit frère, mort à la guerre et dont il porte presque le nom. Parce que sa femme l'a quitté, parce qu'il a déjà été malade une première fois. À travers ces fragments, se tisse le portrait d'un homme parfois aigri, peut-être injuste, mais tantôt aussi dans la douceur et qui veut enfin s'incarner pour établir une passerelle avec ses enfants, ses triplés. Il ne cache pas les éclipses et les nuits de la transmission, révèle ses faiblesses, ses absences, ses doutes, mais si c'est pour renouer avec ses petits, alors, ça n'a pas de prix...

4 3 2 1

Autore: Paul Auster

Numero di pagine: 1104

* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK “An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.”—Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review “A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. . . . An incredibly moving, true journey.”—NPR New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to...

Spezia

Autore: Robert A. Webster

Numero di pagine: 346

Un'avventura emozionante, imprevedibile, e a volte esilarante. Vi porta da un ristorante elegante di Londra alle giungle selvagge dei Monti Cardamomi, dove un pasticcere inglese e un rifugiato cambogiano cercano una famiglia scomparsa e tentano di trovare una pianta mitica, fonte di una spezia incredibile e unica. Ben Bakewell è un Maestro Pasticcere presso uno dei ristoranti più pregiati di Londra. Meglio noto come Cake, stringe amicizia con Ravuth, un rifugiato cambogiano fuggito dai campi di sterminio in Cambogia e scappato in Inghilterra negli anni 70 dagli Khmer Rossi che hanno depredato il suo paese. Da ragazzino Ravuth incappò in una pianta sconosciuta, la fonte di una spezia incredibile e unica. Venne separato dalla propria famiglia a causa degli Khmer Rossi, e trascorse la maggior parte della propria vita a cercarla, facendo ritorno in Cambogia insieme a Cake per mettersi sulle tracce della pianta rara e dei propri cari sperduti. Una volta giunti in Cambogia trovano un alleato in uno sventurato ex agente della DEA deciso a vendicarsi, il quale deve trovare la pianta per scopi ben più sinistri. Si addentrano nei meandri più remoti della spietata giungla dei monti...

The Syme Papers

Autore: Benjamin Markovits

Numero di pagine: 548

Douglas Pitt is a man obsessed. Laughed at, mocked, and dismissed at every turn, Pitt has dedicated the best part of an unremarkable academic career attempting to prove the genius of Samuel Highgate Syme (b.1794, Baltimore; soldier, geologist, inventor). Pitt's postulation is simple enough: Syme, through some fault, wrong-doing, conspiracy or mischance, has not been credited with the recognition he deserves for hitting upon a key discovery in the advance of modern science - the theory of continental drift.Lacking the crucial last piece of the puzzle to convince his peers and normalize his family life, Pitt's emotional equilibrium is stabilised in a magical stroke of fortune when he uncovers a contemporary manuscript written by a fledgling German scientist, Friedrich Muller, which recounts a year (1821) in the company of the irrepressible Syme.Switching between these beguiling and colourful narratives, The Syme Papers takes the reader on an odyssey into the heart of Maryland and Virginia in the 1820s by way of London and Texas today. An epic stew of intellectual procrastination, early nineteenth-century picaresque and late twentieth-century angst, it is a novel of genius and...

The Complete Novels of Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Autore: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Numero di pagine: 6586

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. His literary works explore human psychology in the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many of his works contain a strong emphasis on Christianity, and its message of absolute love, forgiveness and charity, explored within the realm of the individual, confronted with all of life's hardships and beauty. His major works include Crime and Punishment (1866), The Idiot (1869), Demons (1872) and The Brothers Karamazov (1880). Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes from Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature._x000D_ This edition includes:_x000D_ NOVELS AND NOVELLAS:_x000D_ Poor Folk_x000D_ The Double_x000D_ The Landlady_x000D_ Netochka Nezvanova_x000D_ Uncle's Dream_x000D_ The Village of Stepanchikovo_x000D_ The House of the Dead_x000D_ Notes from Underground_x000D_ Crime and Punishment_x000D_ The Gambler_x000D_ The Idiot_x000D_ The Permanent Husband_x000D_ The Possessed (Demons)_x000D_ The Raw Youth (The...

The Collectors

Autore: Frank Jewett Mather

Numero di pagine: 140

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Comprising a Ballade, wherein the Wrongfulness of Art Collecting is conceded, and as well Certain Stories: Campbell Corot, which recounts the career of an able and candid Picture Forger. The del Puente Giorgione, which tells of an artful Great Lady and an Artless Expert. The Lombard Runes, a mere interlude, but revealing a certain duplicity in Professional Seekers for Truth. Their Cross, so called from an inanimate Object of Price which wrought Woe to a well meaning New York Couple. The Missing St Michael, a tale of Italianate Americans which is full of Vanities and, though alluring to the Sophisticated, quite unfit for the Simple Reader. The Lustred Pots, again a mere interlude, but of a grim sort, as it grazes the Sixth Commandment and The Balaklava Coronal, which, notwithstanding its exotic title, is mostly of our own People, showing the Triumph of a resourceful Dealer over two Critics and a Captain of Industry. To which seven stories are added some Reflections upon Art Collecting, setting forth Excuses and...

Savander

Autore: Juha Savinainen

Numero di pagine: 230

Mitä on miehen tehtävä? Hänen on kirjoitettava kirja, istutettava puu ja kiivettävä vuorelle. Savander ei ole tehnyt niin mutta hän yrittää kovasti. Hän tietää elämän tarkoituksen ja hän tietää myös, ettei se ole helppoa. Olen nähnyt tämän ja kirjoittanut vuosien aikana muistiin siitä pienen osan, 52 pientä tarinaa. Olen myös miettinyt, että voisiko mainitut tehtävät korvata jollain muulla. Voisiko esim. puutarhanhoito, purjehtiminen ja golf olla vaihtoehtoja? En ole itse tehnyt näistäkään muuta kuin tuota joutavan ajan erinomaista tuhlausta golfin parissa. Oliko se Seneca, joka sanoi; meillä ei ole mitään muuta kuin aika, jota on ihmiselle annettu riittävästi? Toisaalta, olen nyt kuitenkin kirjoittanut kirjan. Savanderista ei ole sankariksi vaikka esikuvansa hänelläkin on. Kuten erämaiden Chingachgook viimeisenä mohikaanina tai Alaskan Malamute Kid tai Manila John, joka tekee kuolemaa Iwo Jiman mustalla hiekalla luotien repiessä oikean kätensä. Mutta vielä kerran on yritettävä, vielä on miehen noustava taisteluun. Savander kamppailee arkipäivässä, kassajonossa tai tietokoneensa kanssa tai tv- ohjelmien viidakossa. Tämähän on...

The Forged Coupon

Autore: Leo Tolstoy

Numero di pagine: 81

The Forged Coupon, Tolstoy's final novella, is a brilliant study of evil's devastating power set against a masterful depiction of Russian life. Stepan, unavoidably enslaved by the power his crimes bring him, continues down the path of evil, remorselessly seeking new opportunities to murder and maim. When one of his victims refuses to concede to him and instead dies with pity on her lips, he is haunted by her image. Suddenly, he is forced to choose between continuing his criminal career and facing the consequences of his actions.

PI

Autore: Azra Kohen

Numero di pagine: 696

Arriviamo a noi stessi passo dopo passo, attraverso le scelte che facciamo. L'essere umano si forma scegliendo in ogni istante. Rinasciamo in ogni momento se facciamo la cosa giusta, altrimenti ogni volta muore una piccola parte di noi. Pi, il libro finale della trilogia-evento, ci fa il dono della nostra storia. Attraverso le scelte di Özge comprendiamo come le battaglie non si vincano attraverso la lotta e che c'è vera vittoria solo se non lasciamo il sentiero della rettitudine; attraverso Can vediamo come tutto ciò che facciamo torna indietro; Duru ci parla delle amare conseguenze che derivano dal valutare noi stessi solo attraverso gli occhi degli altri; Bilge ci offre la prova che possiamo esistere grazie alla nostra intelligenza e Deniz ci insegna a concentrarci su cosa sia davvero importante. Ognuno di questi personaggi indimenticabili ci dice qualcosa di noi stessi. Pi è il libro che ci permette di veder fiorire il seme che abbiamo piantato dentro di noi: "Ci gettarono nella terra, ma non sapevano che noi eravamo i semi".

Master And Man by Leo Tolstoy (International Bestseller Book) From the Author books Like Anna Karenina War and Peace The Death of Ivan Ilych The Kreutzer Sonata Resurrection İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? A Confession Hadji Murád

Autore: Leo Tolstoy

Numero di pagine: 64

Master And Man by Leo Tolstoy From the Author books Like · Anna Karenina · War and Peace · The Death of Ivan Ilych · The Kreutzer Sonata · Resurrection · İnsan Ne İle Yaşar? · A Confession · Hadji Murád · How Much Land Does a Man Need? · Family Happiness · Childhood, Boyhood, Youth · The Cossacks · Master and Man · The Kingdom of God Is Within You · The Devil · Father Sergius · What Is Art? ABOUT THE BOOK: The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades - experimenting with prose styles and drawing on his own experiences with humour, realism and compassion. Inspired by his experiences in the army, 'The Two Hussars' contrasts a dashing father and his mean-spirited son. Illustrating Tolstoy's belief that art must serve a moral purpose, 'What Men Live By' portrays an angel sent to earth to learn three existential rules of life, and 'Two Old Men' shows a peasant abandoning his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in order to help his neighbours. And in the highly moving 'Master and Man', Tolstoy depicts a mercenary merchant travelling with his unprotesting servant through a blizzard to close a business deal -...

Taken Alive

Autore: Edward Payson Roe

Numero di pagine: 440

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Two or three years ago the editor of "Lippincott's Magazine" asked me, with many others, to take part in the very interesting "experience meeting" begun in the pages of that enterprising periodical. I gave my consent without much thought of the effort involved, but as time passed, felt slight inclination to comply with the request. There seemed little to say of interest to the general public, and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all. The question, Why should I? always confronted me. When this request was again repeated early in the current year, I resolved at least to keep my promise. This is done with less reluctance now, for the reason that floating through the press I meet with paragraphs concerning myself that are incorrect, and often absurdly untrue. These literary and personal notes, together with many questioning letters, indicate a certain amount of public interest, and I have concluded that it may be well to give the facts to those who care to know them.

The Determinant

Autore: Mohammad Rangga Yudha Kusumah

The center of the story is Guy Galloon. Because Guy Galloon relates with people and Jack cracker, experience of relationship between him, people and Jack becomes idea of story. Problem is revealed by Jack but intended to be solved by him when he relates with Jack. The problem becomes conflict between him and Jack. The conflict is based on interaction of Guy Galloon recoveries flow and Jack. The conflict becomes essence of whole story of determinant. The conflict is about collision of two actors, which are Guy Galloon and Jack, that defend their truths until end of story. No win-lose or lose-win solution but win-win solution results from the conflict and finishes whole conflict of story.

What Men Live By, and Other Tales

Autore: Leo Tolstoy

Numero di pagine: 63

What Men Live By, and Other Tales Leo Tolstoy - "What Men Live By and Other Tales" compiles tales that handle intricate philosophical issues in a simple and engaging way to incite the mind.In What Men Live By you'll encounter a kind and humble shoemaker, Simon, who, one day, goes out to buy sheep-skins to sew a winter coat for his wife and himself to share.Unable to collect the full amount, he only receives twenty Kopeks to buy the skins. Simon is disheartened and spends the twenty Kopeks on Vodka before heading back home...This story, along with other subtle, beautiful, and timeless tales, will immerse you in the world of Russia's most regarded mind.The book comes with three other tales telling of wisdom, acceptance, kindness, and forgiveness.Three Questions follows the story of a king who wants to know the answer to the three most important questions in life to seek enlightenment.The Coffee-House of Surat, tells about a coffee shop in the Indian town of Surat that has many travelers and foreigners meet from all over the globe to chat. An educated Persian theologian pays a visit to the coffee shop one day.How Much Land Does a Man Need? recounts the tale of Pahom, a peasant, who...

Everest Hotel

Autore: Irwin Allan Sealy

Numero di pagine: 276

A Drummondganj, petite ville des contre forts de l'Himalaya, quelques religieuses veillent aux destinées quotidiennes de l'Everest Hotel, qui héberge des pensionnaires hétéroclites, perdus pour le monde extérieur. Propriétaire des lieux, le très vieux Jed supporte mal la dislocation de sa mémoire et le renoncement à la sexualité. Il trouve un réconfort dans les soins que lui prodigue Ritu, la jolie novice dont il prend plaisir à taquiner la pudeur. Les sentiments qu'elle porte à Brij, qui milite pour l'autonomie de sa région, sont refoulés d'autant plus vite qu'il se tourne vers Inge, une jeune néo-fasciste allemande. De floraison en orage, d'été torride en hiver glacé, cette année-là voit naître des projets et des vies se rompre, dans des circonstances parfois mystérieuses. Au cycle des saisons se superposent l'éternité des disparus du cimetière, l'époque insensible des antennes paraboliques et du déboisement industriel, l'urgence d'y survivre, les périodes de la mémoire. Et soudain, le temps miraculé, l'enfance... I-Allan Sealy promène aux cœurs de cet univers une plume inimitable de scénariste et de poète, avant de nous raccompagner au train,...

The Man Who Knew the Answer

Autore: Richard Segal

Numero di pagine: 308

The afternoon began innocently enough with a lunch meeting in Tower Hill, but gathered pace when I hesitated upon my departure from the Rotunda, and overheard a quartet of deal-making Continentals: ‘The names for an apple are not the fruit itself.’ Code for a transaction they were negotiating or aphorisms for the spewing aside, one picaresque experience leads to another and the next thing I knew, I was on the 73 bus heading out of Harvard Square, with the Armenian driver working the crowd and apologizing for our poor geography. Vijay finally breaks loose of his winter skin while sampling comedy clubs up and down the East Coast, and discovers that The Impresario represents truth in advertizing. In his black and blue swan t-shirt, every clown does have a silver lining. However, these are but preludes to the existential challenges soon to face a young nation, in search of the one man able to solve these riddles, and deliver a cure for us all.

Master and Man

Autore: Leo Tolstoy

Numero di pagine: 56

It happened in the 'seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholas's Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and had also to entertain his relatives and friends at home. But when the last of them had gone he at once began to prepare to drive over to see a neighbouring proprietor about a grove which he had been bargaining over for a long time. He was now in a hurry to start, lest buyers from the town might forestall him in making a profitable purchase. The youthful landowner was asking ten thousand rubles for the grove simply because Vasili Andreevich was offering seven thousand. Seven thousand was, however, only a third of its real value. Vasili Andreevich might perhaps have got it down to his own price, for the woods were in his district and he had a long-standing agreement with the other village dealers that no one should run up the price in another's district, but he had now learnt that some timber-dealers from town meant to bid for the Goryachkin grove, and he resolved to go at once and get the matter settled. So as soon as the feast was over, he took seven...

The enchanted chair of an unusual writer

Autore: Nikolay Lakutin

There are rumors that once upon a time there was an unusual writer. Most of his biography is shrouded in darkness, but even what is known about him is shocking. He wrote very unusual books, which attracted the attention of the public. He didn't seem to know whether he was writing truth or fiction. This writer went through a difficult path, but achieved everything he aspired to. After his death, he left his last gift to humanity – a charmed chair. It is around this chair that the passions still do not subside...

Odd Numbers

Autore: Sewell Ford

Numero di pagine: 292

"Odd Numbers" by Sewell Ford. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Laurus

Autore: Eugene Vodolazkin

Numero di pagine: 352

WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD *A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016* Fifteenth-century Russia It is a time of plague and pestilence, and a young healer, skilled in the art of herbs and remedies, finds himself overcome with grief and guilt when he fails to save the one he holds closest to his heart. Leaving behind his village, his possessions and his name, he sets out on a quest for redemption, penniless and alone. But this is no ordinary journey: wandering across plague-ridden Europe, offering his healing powers to all in need, he travels through ages and countries, encountering a rich tapestry of wayfarers along the way. Accosted by highwaymen, lynched in Yugoslavia and washed overboard at sea, he eventually reaches Jerusalem, only to find his greatest challenge is yet to come. Winner of two of the biggest literary prizes in Russia, Laurus is a remarkably rich novel about the eternal themes of love, loss, self-sacrifice and faith, from one of the country’s most experimental and critically acclaimed novelists.

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Autore: Jonas Jonasson

Numero di pagine: 400

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . . Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. Translated by Roy Bradbury.

Adventures of Canned Food Seller and his friends. Adventures of Afrikancev

Autore: Oleg Torbin

The book is based on real historical events. Actual prototypes stand behind each of the mentioned characters. A humorous novel. Free from buttons, no stress for koumpounophobic people.

Little Johannes

Autore: Frederik Eeden

Numero di pagine: 188

"Little Johannes" by Frederik van Eeden (translated by Clara Bell). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Les Gens Sont Mauvais

Autore: Luckner Pierre

Numero di pagine: 41

Depuis longtemps, Luckner Pierre a appris le caractère des gens qui sont mauvais et méchant avec un mauvais oeil. Après que son père l'a abandonné quand il était bébé en 1979, Pierre est devenu victime d'exclusion sociale dans la famille de sa mère à Miami. Pour l'équilibre dans la vie, Pierre évite les gens qui sont mauvais. Dans le système parisien, Pierre a appris que les gens sont menteurs et prétentieux avec le défaut de jalousie qui le décourage. Cependant, en janvier 2022, Pierre deviendra prof d'anglais pour aider les parisiens à améliorer efficacement leur anglais. Depuis 2004, Pierre est un écrivain des livres indépendent. Pierre demande le respect.

Who Wrote the Best Books Top 100 Authors

Autore: Alex Trost , Vadim Kravetsky

Numero di pagine: 28

Are you looking for a journey that will take you through this amazing obok, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Writing this book did not happen quickly. It is thorough look at accuracy and foundation before the book was even started. This book was created to inform, entertain and maybe even test your knowledge. By the time you finish reading this book you will want to share it with others.

La moitié d'une vie

Autore: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul , Suzanne V Mayoux

Numero di pagine: 238

L'un des plus grands écrivains de langue anglaise, V.S. Naipaul, nous offre un conte aussi frappant qu'inattendu, son nouveau roman depuis Un chemin dans le monde, publié il y a sept ans. La Moitié d'une vie est l'histoire de Willie Chandran, dont le père a tourné le dos à son héritage de brahmane pour épouser une femme de basse caste. Quand Willie atteint l'âge adulte, il décide de fuir sa condition de sang-mêlé et se retrouve très loin de l'Inde, dans le Londres bohème et bariolé des années 50, où il se forge une nouvelle identité. Il s'épuise dans des aventures sexuelles et dans sa lutte pour devenir écrivain - épreuves dont il est sauvé par l'amour d'une femme. Nouvel arrachement : il accepte de suivre cette femme estimable chez elle, en Afrique, pour vivre jusqu'aux derniers jours de l'époque coloniale une existence inédite. Dans ce récit lumineux qui nous transporte à travers trois continents, Naipaul explore son grand thème de l'identité et de l'exil avec toujours plus d'acuité et d'immédiateté. Chef-d'œuvre de nuance et d'économie, La Moitié d'une vie est une création inoubliable.

Paul Kelver

Autore: Jerome J.k.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859–1927) was an English writer and humourist. In the semi-autobiographical novel «Paul Kelver» details the eponymous narrator’s rocky road through life, including his stints as an actor, a few disastrous love affairs, and a chance meeting with an infl uential stranger, eventually leading to his decision to become a writer.

Le premier souffle

Autore: Leif Enger

Numero di pagine: 423

Jeremiah est un père exemplaire. Il s'efforce de transmettre à ses enfants et plus particulièrement à Reuben, son fils cadet, des valeurs comme l'honnêteté, le courage et le respect des autres. Mais un événement dramatique vient bouleverser sa famille et la jeter sur les routes de l'Ouest américain en caravane. Au cours de ce périple semé d'épreuves, Reuben va progressivement perdre son innocence et ses certitudes d'enfant. Comme Holden Caufield dans L'Attrape-cours, il va découvrir que la justice des hommes n'est pas infaillible, que le mensonge est parfois préférable à la vérité et que les miracles surviennent toujours au moment où on les attend le moins...

What to Do?

Autore: Lyof N. Tolstoi

Numero di pagine: 254

Excerpt from What to Do?: Thoughts Evoked by the Census of Moscow A voice from Russia - the voice, as it were, of a prophet -has proclaimed another and inexorable way. A nobleman, rich and famous, a popular novelist, a great land-owner, with every thing in his grasp that ambition might suggest, found himself face to face with this question. He had lived the idle, luxurious life of the upper classes, the world over, and thought to compound with his conscience by a dilettante system of money-giving. With this charitable object in view, he investigated the poverty of Moscow, which is exactly like the poverty of every other city, -paris, London, New York, Berlin, Boston, - and atter systematic examination he came to the conclusion that the mere giving of money only added to the existing evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in...

Simone - A Novel

Autore: Lion Feuchtwanger

Numero di pagine: 248

SIMONE SIMON A Novel Tyy LION FEUCHTWANGER Translated by G. A. Hermann New York THE VIKING PRESS 1944 Contents Part One READINESS i. The Refugees 3 ii. The Loading Yard 19 in. Villa Monrepos 30 iv. The Books, 46 v. The Commission 55 Part Two ACTION i. The Incident at the Bridge 77 n. Monsieur le Marquis 88 in. Nutmeg in the Cream Gravy 96 iv. The Aviator 103 v. The Action no vi. A Night of Expectation 126 vii. The First Consequences 133 Part Three REALIZATION i. Uncle Prospers Face 145 n. The Bitter Waiting 152 m. The Call of Liberty 161 vi Contents iv. The Great Betrayal 172 v. The Vile Reward 186 vi. The Trapper 199 vii. The Recantation 210 viii. The Imperishable 215 ix. The Grey House 221 I have come to comfort the poor and humble Qe suis venue four la consolation des petites gens. JEANNE DARC PART ONE READINESS I TKe Refugees IMONE had only a few more steps then the narrow path would make a sudden turn and reveal the highway. With heart beating in her throat, she expectantly took these few steps. Yesterday she had first caught sight of the procession of refugees on the arterial highway. By today it would perhaps have reached the narrow side road. For three weeks there had been ...

The Lion's Share

Autore: Arnold Bennett

Numero di pagine: 250

Audrey had just closed the safe in her father's study when she was startled by a slight noise. Sheturned like a defensive animal to face danger. It had indeed occurred to her that she was rather likean animal in captivity, and she found a bitter pleasure in the idea, though it was not at all original."And Flank Hall is my Zoo!" she had said. (Not that she had ever seen the Zoological Gardens orvisited London.)She was lithe; she moved with charm. Her short, plain blue serge walking-frock disclosed the formof her limbs and left them free, and it made her look younger even than she was. Its simplicity suitedher gestures and took grace from them. But she wore the old thing without the least interest in it-almost unconsciously. She had none of the preoccupations caused by the paraphernalia of existence.She scarcely knew what it was to own. She was aware only of her body and her soul. Beyond theseher possessions were so few, so mean, so unimportant, that she might have carried them to thegrave and into heaven without protest from the authorities earthly or celestial.The slight noise was due to the door of the study, which great age had distorted and bereft of sense, and, in fact, almost ...

Dostoyevsky, His Life and Work

Autore: Ronald Hingley

Numero di pagine: 232

"Ronald Hingley's biography of Fyodor Dostoevsky, though from the late 1970s, is a perfect place to start for a student curious about the major themes that weave through, and interconnect, the works of this major author, as well as how his literature grew out of his tumultuous, event-packed life. Today, as yesterday, every intelligent person should know something about Dostoevsky, and Hingley's biography is extremely readable, and presents the author's often extreme philosophy and literary views as a product of his life. Dostoevsky is presented throughout the bio as a person, too often beset by emotional storms that perverted his humanity toward Jews, Poles, Western Europeans, socialists and the like, but Hingley also does his best to present this great Russian writer as a human being in the round, and possessed of both ferocious tenacity in working through his literary creations, and an often surprising receptiveness to the meek and the forgotten, to whose lot he remained loyal and empathetic throughout his life."--Review by M. A. Seifter viewed on Amazon.com June 30, 2022.

The Book of Illusions

Autore: Paul Auster

Numero di pagine: 336

In this rich and emotionally charged work, a man's obsession with a silent film star sends him on a journey into a shadowy world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love.

The Forged Coupon and Other Stories (Esprios Classics)

Autore: Leo Tolstoy

Numero di pagine: 164

Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) commonly referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer - novelist, essayist, dramatist and philosopher - as well as pacifist Christian anarchist and educational reformer. He was the most influential member of the aristocratic Tolstoy family. His first publications were three autobiographical novels, Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth (1852-1856). They tell of a rich landowner's son and his slow realization of the differences between him and his peasants. As a fiction writer Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists, particularly noted for his masterpieces War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877). In their scope, breadth and realistic depiction of 19th-century Russian life, the two books stand at the peak of realist fiction.

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