France
- Auteur:Johnson, DouglasSommaire:
- Auteur:MolièreSommaire:
- Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:
The taste of a madeleine dipped in tea transports a man into a reverie about his old family friend Charles Swann and launches the world’s the most introspective literary masterpiece. The first of the seven-volume Remembrance of Things...
- Auteur:Prete, Roy A.Sommaire:
Falling between the 'War of Movement' in 1914 and the major attrition battles of 1916, 1915 was a critical year in the First World War. As France failed in ever-larger offensives to break through the German trenches, Britain...
- Auteur:Brown, MarciaSommaire:
When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.
- Auteur:Ernaux, AnnieSommaire:
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and...
- Auteur:Carter, Karen E.Sommaire:
In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case,...
- Auteur:Rosnay, Tatiana deSommaire:
On the sixtieth anniversary of the 1942 roundup of Jews by the French police in the Vel d'Hiv section of Paris, American journalist Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article on this dark episode during World War II and embarks on...
- Auteur:Guilbault, FrançoisSommaire:
1782-1794. Le Vieux Continent. Arrivée d'Amérique en Languedoc au bras de son époux, Lucien de Maugeois, comte de Boissières, Victoire est précipitée dans un univers dont elle ignorait tout. Les alentours de Nîmes sont loin...
- Auteur:Chantal DesRochers, José ClaerSommaire:
Avoir 20 ans rime-t-il toujours avec les premières amours, les premiers territoires vierges explorés ? Demandons-le à Sun-Eve, qui arrive en France pour mener à bien ses études universitaires avec, dans ses valises, les fantasmes d...
- Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:
Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann’s Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his...
- Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust is the story of a young boy's journey through life. It is suggested that the ambiguous, unnamed narrator is partially autobiographical. The narrator experiences several romances, which lead...
- Auteur:Menzies, Charles R.Sommaire:
"Small-scale, family fishing enterprises manage to persist despite a range of difficult economic and ecological changes and disruptions. Red Flags and Lace Coiffes is an ... ethnography that explores how and why family-based...
- Auteur:Conkling, WinifredSommaire:
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb. In 1934, IrEne Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot,...
- Auteur:Louis, ÉdouardSommaire:
Ce texte bref est d'une extrême intensité, due à la violence des sentiments exprimés, plus aimants que haineux. La haine, si haine il y a, est adressée aux "dominants", aux responsables politiques et économiques de...
- Auteur:Weir, AlisonSommaire:
The Plantagenet queens of England played a role in some of the most dramatic events in our history. Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle, queens who enlivened...
- Auteur:Horowitz, AnthonySommaire:
Recently recruited and trained as a special agent by MI6, the British secret service, 14-year-old West Londoner Alex Rider is sent to infiltrate an ultra-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious...
- Auteur:Ellul, Jacques, Vanderburg, Willem H.Sommaire:
Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight...
- Auteur:Süskind, PatrickSommaire:
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift: an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer...
- Auteur:Price, RogerSommaire:
Why do people take an interest in politics? What do they hope to gain from voting? Why support one political "party" rather than another? To what extent is political behavior rooted in "class" or community? Although these are all...