French books in print, anglais

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ISBN 13 : 9782765408475
Total Pages : 2148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book French books in print, anglais written by Electre and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Revelations

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271029153
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Strange Revelations by : Lynn Wood Mollenauer

Download or read book Strange Revelations written by Lynn Wood Mollenauer and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Affair of the Poisons was the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. From 1679 to 1682 the French crown investigated more than 400 people&—including Louis XIV&’s official mistress and members of the highest-ranking circles at court&—for sensational crimes. In Strange Revelations, Lynn Mollenauer brings this bizarre story to life, exposing a criminal magical underworld thriving in the heart of the Sun King&’s capital. The macabre details of the Affair of the Poisons read like a gothic novel. In the fall of 1678, Nicolas de la Reynie, head of the Paris police, uncovered a plot to poison Louis XIV. La Reynie&’s subsequent investigation unveiled a loosely knit community of sorceresses, magicians, and renegade priests who offered for sale an array of services and products ranging from abortions to love magic to poisons known as &“inheritance powders.&” It was the inheritance powders (usually made from powdered toads steeped in arsenic) that lent the Affair of the Poisons its name. The purchasers of the powders gave the affair its notoriety, for the scandal extended into the most exalted ranks of the French court. Mollenauer adroitly uses the Affair of the Poisons to uncover the hidden forms of power that men and women of all social classes invoked to achieve their goals. While the exercise of state power during the ancien r&égime was quintessentially visible&—ritually displayed through public ceremonies&—the affair exposes the simultaneous presence of other imagined and real sources of power available to the Sun King&’s subjects: magic, poison, and the manipulation of sexual passions. Highly entertaining yet deeply researched, Strange Revelations will appeal to anyone interested in the history of court society, gender, magic, or crime in early modern Europe.

Arcimboldo the Marvelous

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Publisher : ABRAMS
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Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Arcimboldo the Marvelous by : André Pieyre de Mandiargues

Download or read book Arcimboldo the Marvelous written by André Pieyre de Mandiargues and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1978 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arcimboldo, a 16th century Italian artist [working in Vienna and Prague] is an artist with an indisputable claim, he single mindedly pursued his invention, the so-termed "composite head", applying it to numerous and varied subjects. Apt and witty combinations of animals, fish, fruit, vegetables, and a variety of other objects, all painted with meticulous realism, are fitted together into head and shoulder figures that sometimes have the look of portraits. He also devised compositions that can be hung upside down as well as right side up. Arcimboldo's major works were his numerous series on allegorical themes, especially the Four Seasons and the Four Elements."--Amazon.

Koralovski - Volume 1 - The Oligarch

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Publisher : Europe Comics
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Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (328 download)

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Book Synopsis Koralovski - Volume 1 - The Oligarch by : Philippe Gauckler

Download or read book Koralovski - Volume 1 - The Oligarch written by Philippe Gauckler and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2016-01-13T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viktor Koralovski was Russia's Oil King--a title that earned him the wrath of President Khanine and ten years in prison. An unexpected missile attack allows Koralovski to escape. However, he soon learns that while he was locked up, his friends and enemies have become almost indistinguishable, which leads to his current position at the centre of a vast conspiracy that threatens to engulf the entire oil industry!

Little Oops!

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Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780152025373
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (253 download)

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Book Synopsis Little Oops! by : Colin McNaughton

Download or read book Little Oops! written by Colin McNaughton and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preston Pig and a wolf cause each other to have accidents.

The Science of Religions

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Science of Religions by : Emile Burnouf

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New Ways to Kill Your Mother

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Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 0771084420
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis New Ways to Kill Your Mother by : Colm Toibin

Download or read book New Ways to Kill Your Mother written by Colm Toibin and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating, informative, and entertaining collection, internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Colm Tóibín turns his attention to the intricacies of family relationships in literature and writing. In pieces that range from the importance of aunts (and the death of parents) in the English nineteenth-century novel to the relationship between fathers and sons in the writing of James Baldwin and Barack Obama, Colm Tóibín illuminates not only the intimate connections between writers and their families but also, with wit and rare tenderness, articulates the great joy of reading their work. In the piece on the Notebooks of Tennessee Williams, Tóibín reveals an artist "alone and deeply fearful and unusually selfish" and one profoundly tormented by his sister's mental illness. Through the relationship between W.B. Yeats and his father, or Thomas Mann and his children, or J.M. Synge and his mother, Tóibín examines a world of family relations, richly comic or savage in its implications. In Roddy Doyle's writing on his parents we see an Ireland reinvented. From the dreams and nightmares of John Cheever's journals Tóibín makes flesh this darkly comic misanthrope and his relationship to his wife and his children.The majority of these pieces were previously published in the Londron Review of Books, the New York Review Review of Books, and the Dublin Review. Three of the thirteen pieces have never appeared before.

Formeries

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Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Formeries by : Jean Tardieu

Download or read book Formeries written by Jean Tardieu and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of the Castle: Or, Stories of Instruction and Delight

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Book Synopsis Tales of the Castle: Or, Stories of Instruction and Delight by : Stéphanie Félicité Brulart comtesse de Genlis

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A Guest at the Feast

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771006179
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis A Guest at the Feast by : Colm Toibin

Download or read book A Guest at the Feast written by Colm Toibin and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2023-01-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling and Booker-nominated author Colm Tóibín comes a beautiful collection of essays ranging from personal memoir to brilliantly acute writing on religion, literature and politics. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Tóibín himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.

Havel

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192394
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Havel by : Michael Zantovsky

Download or read book Havel written by Michael Zantovsky and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “definitive biography” of the poet and political dissident who became the last president of Czechoslovakia—and first president of the Czech Republic (Walter Isaacson). This portrait of Vaclav Havel, iconoclast and intellectual, renowned playwright turned political dissident, president of a united then divided nation, and dedicated human rights activist, is written by his former press secretary, advisor, and longtime friend—and recounts the turbulent twentieth-century era through which he prevailed. Havel’s lifelong perspective as an outsider began with his privileged childhood in Prague and his family’s blacklisted status following the Communist coup of 1948. This feeling of being outcast fueled his career as an essayist and a dramatist writing absurdist plays as social commentary. His involvement during the Prague Spring and his leadership of Charter 77, his unflagging belief in the power of the powerless, and his galvanizing personality catapulted Havel into a pivotal role as the leader of the Velvet Revolution in 1989. Although Havel was a courageous visionary, he was also a man of great contradictions, wracked with doubt and self-criticism. But he always remained true to himself. This “smart and exciting” biography is “both inspiring and filled with lessons for our time” (Walter Isaacson). “Havel was one of the most important intellectual-troublemaking statesmen of his time—a nonconformist, determined to live in truth, who questioned the system, his countrymen and himself constantly. No one is better suited than Michael Zantovsky to describe, interpret, and analyze this moral giant . . . A brilliantly informed intellectual and political history.” —Madeleine Albright “Entertaining, intimate, and moving . . . Zantovsky’s voice—that of a natural storyteller with an eye for the memorable anecdote, a mischievous wit, an easy intelligence, and keen sense of balance and fairness—is so engaging.” —Paul Wilson, The New York Review of Books

Gretel and the Dark

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594632553
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (946 download)

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Book Synopsis Gretel and the Dark by : Eliza Granville

Download or read book Gretel and the Dark written by Eliza Granville and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades after a celebrated Viennese psychoanalyst begins working with a woman who claims to be a machine, a young girl retreats into fairy tales, unaware of the dangers in her Nazi-controlled German city.

Monika Vol. 2: Vanilla Dolls

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Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 1785860119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)

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Book Synopsis Monika Vol. 2: Vanilla Dolls by : Thilde Barboni

Download or read book Monika Vol. 2: Vanilla Dolls written by Thilde Barboni and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the epic conclusion to this sensual, political and psychological thriller, Monika must make her choice! It's either the Vanilla Dolls or her own sister... At the behest of Theo, Monika takes to the erotic stage alongside the Vanilla Dolls, but this new masked charade troubles her and much as it exhausts her. The Crucis Brigade lie in wait, their seductive dream of a new of a new West edging ever closer... and Monika is the only one who can stop her murderous sister, Erika!

Gotham Central

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Book Synopsis Gotham Central by : Ed Brubaker

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Beast Master, Vol. 2

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Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1421546981
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Beast Master, Vol. 2 by : Kyousuke Motomi

Download or read book Beast Master, Vol. 2 written by Kyousuke Motomi and published by VIZ Media LLC. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo's 18th birthday is around the corner, but celebrating seems impossible as someone is after Leo's life! Can Leo overcome the dangers of his past? Or will this beastlike boy be separated from his beloved "master"...forever? -- VIZ Media

Liaison 1914

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Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781526796905
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (969 download)

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Book Synopsis Liaison 1914 by : Edward Spears

Download or read book Liaison 1914 written by Edward Spears and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many historians, not least Winston Churchill, agree that The Great War was decided during the first month of fighting. Fortunately a young highly literate and talented British officer was superbly well placed to witness this historic period. Thanks to his fluent French Edward Louis Spears was sent in mid August 1914 to liaise between Field Marshal Sir John French and the French High Command. In the weeks that followed, events moved at lightning speed and decisions were made without consulting or informing their counterparts. It fell to Spears to update the British of their allysmoves. Without modern communication this often involved Spears travelling on clogged roads between head quarters. As the sole British representative at, first, HQ Fifth French Army and then Tenth Army, the influence of this 28 year old author was immense and Spears on many occasions proved unworried about speaking his mind. Clearly his efforts were appreciated; he was made a Chevalier de la Legion dhoneur and awarded the Military Cross (he was wounded four times). Churchill, who became a life long friend, wrote the Foreword to the original edition of this truly extraordinary account which anyone who wishes to understand the events of 1914 must read.

Peacocks Dancing

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007118473
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Peacocks Dancing by : Sharon Maas

Download or read book Peacocks Dancing written by Sharon Maas and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another magical saga by the author of Of Marriageable Age. How many of us think as adults we've lost the vitality of childhood? And how many manage to find it again? This is Rita Maraj's dilemma. Living in a ramshackle house in Georgetown, leader of the local neighbourhood gang, Rita collects people like she does dogs, cats, ants, and even an unwanted police horse. But then her father remarries: her stepmother is determined to tidy up house, husband and stepdaughter, and move into respectable society. Rita's charm and liveliness become compressed by the pressure to conform, and the duty to find a suitable husband. But then a messenger arrives, searching for a possible heir to the distant family estates. Suddenly liberated, and determined to search for her roots, Rita's sense of adventure is reawakened first by the formidable personage of her distant relative, but even more by the tragedies of her long lost, romantic cousin. Her early life -- saving half the wildlife of her neighbourhood -- is only preparation for the destiny that awaits her. Dramatic and vivid, moving and exotic, Peacocks Dancing is a captivating story, a joy to read.