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27121) Paper Lantern: Love Stories
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A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love
Ready!
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On command the firing squad aims at the man backed against a full-length mirror. The mirror once hung in a bedroom, but now it's cracked and propped against a dumpster in an alley. The condemned man has refused the customary last cigarette but accepted as a hood the black slip that was carelessly tossed over a corner of the...
27122) The living days
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A chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phantoms, latching on to Cub and channeling her remaining energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax as white supremacy, desperation, and class conflict explode...
27123) Oslo, Maine: a novel
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"A moose walks into a rural Maine town called Oslo. Pierre Roy, a brilliant twelve-year-old, loses his memory in an accident. Three families are changed for worse and better as they grapple with trauma, marriage, ambition, and their fraught relationship with the natural world" -- Page [4] cover.
27124) Madman
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If there is a way into madness, logic says there is a way out. Logic says. Tallis, a philosopher's servant, is sent to a Greek academy in Palestine only to discover that it has silently, ominously, disappeared. No one will tell him what happened, but he learns what has become of four of its scholars. One was murdered. One committed suicide. One worships in the temple of Dionysus. And one . . . one is a madman. From Christy Award–winning author Tracy...
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Treize écrivains et trois photographes réveillent en nous le sentiment que Bruxelles sommeille dans les plis de nos cœurs.
Une ville singulière et énigmatique que l'on aime ou que l'on rejette car elle est insaisissable, mais bien présente en nous.
Un ensemble de textes tendres, ironiques, intimistes, pour entrer en empathie avec une ville unique !
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J'aime Bruxelles et son grand corps mystérieux traversé par un cours d'eau qu'on...
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"Ideas and Realities in Russian Literature" is a 1906 work by Russian historian and anarchist philosopher Peter Kropotkin. Within it, Kropotkin presents a broad, general idea of the subject by examining modern literature and its most notable contributors. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Russian literature and is not to be missed by collectors of Kropotkin's seminal work. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842—1921) was a Russian...
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Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from Ukraine who joined left-wing circles in Japan and befriended the famous modernist writer Lu Xun in China. Born in a small Ukrainian village in imperial Russia, he was blinded at a young age by complications from measles. Seeking to escape the limitations imposed on the blind, Eroshenko became a globe-trotting...
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When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from a Black, female perspective and for others, who shared her identity. But, just as much as, she was an African American writer, Toni Morrison was a woman of faith.
Morrison filled her novels with biblical allusions, magic, folktales, and liberated women,...
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The award-winning Indigenous author of Monkey Beach shares tales from her family, her life, and her culture.
In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's disarming honesty and wry irony shine through her depictions...
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Décryptez Dora Bruder de Patrick Modiano avec l'analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr!
Que faut-il retenir de Dora Bruder, l'enquête romanesque de Patrick Modiano? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée.
Vous trouverez notamment dans cette fiche:
• Un résumé complet
• Une présentation des personnages principaux tels que Dora Bruder, Ernest et Cécile Bruder, Albert et Patrick Modiano
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27132) Dictionnaire de mythologie
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Un dictionnaire de mythologie! j'entends déjà les exclamations. « - Quoi! en France! au xixe siècle! Mais la mythologie est une chose morte, passée, flétrie comme les bouquets à Chloris, fanée comme les roses de l'abbé Chaulieu, comme les lauriers de l'abbé Delille. Les Dieux ont fait leur temps. Jupiter a mis la clef sous la porte de l'Olympe et s'est retiré des affaires. A quoi pense donc l'auteur, de vouloir rajeunir ces vieilleries?...
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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Alors que jusqu'ici aucun livre de référence n'existait sur François Mansart (mis à part celui de Allan Braham et Peter Smith publié en 1973 en langue anglaise, depuis longtemps épuisé et jamais traduit). La célébration du quatrième centenaire de la naissance de l'architecte a mobilisé historiens...
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout...
27134) Migratory Birds
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In her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy...
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Since Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin put type to printing press, Philadelphia has been a haven and an inspiration for writers. Local essayist Agnes Repplier once shared a glass of whiskey with Walt Whitman, who frequently strolled Market Street. Gothic writers like Edgar Allan Poe and George Lippard plumbed the city's dark streets for material. In the twentieth century, Northern Liberties native John McIntyre found a backdrop for his gritty noir...
27136) Next Time There's a Pandemic
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"During my first post-lockdown massage, I willingly engaged in the requisite chit chat about lockdown experiences with my therapist. He gushed behind his mask: 'Oh man. It was so great. Every day I woke up, drank coffee, read, rode my bike...'
My therapist's description did sound pretty great. But it was nothing like my own anxiety-ridden ordeal...
Had I done the lockdown wrong?"
In Next Time There's a Pandemic, artist Vivek Shraya reflects on how...
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A prolific writer, famous pacifist, respected teacher, and literary mentor to many, William Stafford is one of the great American poets of the 20th century. His first major collection--Traveling through the Dark--won the National Book Award. William Stafford published more than sixty-five volumes of poetry and prose and was Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress--a position now know as the Poet Laureate. Before William Stafford's death in 1993,...
27138) Physiologie de la Presse: Biographie des journalistes et des journaux de Paris et de la province
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Extrait : " Inflexible comme le destin, il enregistre avec le même sang-froid les actes de tous les gouvernements qui se sont succédé depuis quarante ans. Le Moniteur n'est pas un journal de discussion, c'est un poteau sur lequel les ministres placardent les actes officiels..."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS LIGARAN
Les éditions LIGARAN proposent des versions numériques de qualité de grands livres de la littérature classique mais également des...
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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.
27140) Almost Islands
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Almost Islands is a memoir of Collis's friendship with and regular visits to legendary poet Phyllis Webb-now in her nineties and long enveloped in the silence which followed her last published book in 1990-as well as an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure, poetry and politics, choice and chance, place, colonization, and climate change-the struggle that is writing, and the end of writing. "I go to see her because she is poetry's old...
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