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It was the indifferent shrug and callous inertia that this 'optimism' concealed which so angered Voltaire, who found the 'all for the best' approach a patently inadequate response to suffering, to natural disasters - such as the recent earthquakes in Lima and Lisbon - not to mention the questions of illness and man-made war. Moreover, as the rebel whose satiric genius had earned him not only international acclaim, but two stays in the Bastille, flogging...
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When a bumbling holy man mistakenly baptizes a colony of penguins, God endows the animals with souls and their formerly peaceful community declines into a maelstrom of violence and sin. This witty allegory lampoons French history from ancient to modern times, taking satirical swipes at socialists, royalists, industrialists, militarists, and even the Dreyfus affair, and concluding with a remarkably prescient view of the future. Indeed, more than a...
3) The last one
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"Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian. The youngest daughter of Algerian immigrants, Fatima Daas is raised in a home where love and sexuality are considered taboo, and signs of affection avoided. Living in the majority-Muslim suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois, she often spends more than three hours a...
4) Trois contes
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Une édition de référence de Trois Contes de Gustave Flaubert, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Elle avait eu, comme une autre, son histoire d'amour. […]
Un soir du mois d'août (elle avait alors dix-huit ans), ils l'entraînèrent à l'assemblée de Colleville. Tout de suite, elle fut étourdie, stupéfaite par le tapage des ménétriers, les lumières dans les arbres, la bigarrure des costumes, les dentelles,...
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What a stunning discovery: an old, coded note that actually contains directions for reaching the Earth's very core! And once he finds it, renowned geologist Professor Liedenbrock can't resist setting out with his 16-year-old nephew to go where only one man has gone before. Jules Verne takes young readers on one of the most incredible journeys ever imagined, from Iceland's frozen tundra far down into fantastic underground prehistoric worlds and back...
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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Twenty Years After - Alexandre Dumas - Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845. A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers and precedes The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).
The novel follows events in France during the Fronde, during the childhood reign of Louis XIV, and in England near the end...
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[2017]
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London, 1760. When Anna Butterfield's mother dies, she's sent to live with her uncle, a silk merchant in London, to make a good match and provide for her father and sister. There, she meets Henri, a French immigrant and apprentice hoping to become a master weaver. But Henri, born into a lower class, becomes embroiled in the silk riots that break out as weavers protest for a fair wage.With her family's security at stake-- and her reputation on the...
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In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair with her husband's earthy friend, Laurent. But their passion for each other soon compels the lovers to commit a crime that will haunt them forever.
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A hideously disfigured composer, who lives in seclusion beneath the Paris Opera House, becomes a Svengali figure to young singer Christine Daaé, moulding her into a star performer. But his obsessive love for Christine is unrequited and when he fears she will be lost to him, his jealousy endangers everyone. Gaston Leroux's Phantom is one of literature's most famous tragic outsiders, inspiring fear and pity in an enthralling tale of fixation and thwarted...
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[1988]
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Entre les murs d'un appartement du boulevard Haussman, Marcel Proust écrit «Du Côté de Chez Swann», la première partie d'un monument romanesque, «À la recherche du temps perdu». À la porte de son génie littéraire, c'est une projection de souvenirs qui nous parvient, comme narrée par une voix profonde et sensible, à la recherche de sensations, d'un temps perdu que les méandres de la mémoire s'attèlent à raviver. Lorsqu'on dépasse...
13) Armance
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[1985]
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Sous la restauration, Octave de Malivert, diplômé de l'Ecole Polytechnique, a tout pour être heureux. Il a bon esprit, une bonne situation, mais n'en demeure pas moins mélancolique. C'est qu'il n'a d'yeux que pour Armance de Zohiloff, mais, malgré un amour réciproque aussi doux que passionné, il ne peut lui dévoiler son «fatal secret» — un aveu impossible, source de son désarroi intérieur.Paru en 1826, «Armance» est le premier roman...
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2021.
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First edition.
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In Manuela Draeger's poetic 'post-exotic' novel, a group of young leftists trapped in a burning building after one year's Bolcho Pride parade plunge back into their childhood memories, trading them with each other as their lives are engulfed in flames. They remember Granny Holgolde's stories of the elephant Marta Ashkarot as she travels through the Bardo, to find her home and be reincarnated again and again. They remember the Soviet folk singer Lyudmila...
18) Les miserables
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Bibliothèque verte. Aventures. Humaines volume 715-717
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