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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura León el Africano de Amin Maalouf, novela en la que el autor franco-libanés narra las andanzas de un comerciante y diplomático mediterráneo, León el Africano, desde los orígenes de su familia hasta su vejez. La historia se enmarca en una época extremadamente rica en episodios históricos, que el autor conecta con la vida de su protagonista.
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Extrait: "Vous êtes-vous arrêté quelquefois, flâneur que vous êtes, au milieu de cette longue avenue, bordée d'arbres poudreux, qui conduit de la place Louis XVI à l'arc de triomphe de l'Étoile? Vous savez cet éternel arc de triomphe que les rois ont posé à l'entrée de la grande ville, pour témoigner combien l'homme est petit, et combien les trnes durent peu."
38963) Les chroniques d'Hashtaklor
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À Hashtaklor, Laïnoka est témoin du meurtre de ses parents à l'âge de 6 ans, une tragédie qui la hante et la pousse à nourrir une obsession : la vengeance. Dans sa quête, elle découvre un dessein bien plus vaste derrière la mort de sa famille, l'amenant à affronter des puissances surnaturelles. Réussira-t-elle à percer les mystères de sa destinée ?
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Jérémy Le Coquil a toujours aspiré à l'écriture, et aujourd'hui,...
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Praised by the Chicago Sun-Times for its "furious, indignant power," this story offers a rare, funny, bitter, and feminist look at war. First published in London in 1930, Not So Quiet... (on the Western Front) describes a group of British women ambulance drivers on the French front lines during World War I, surviving shell fire, cold, and their punishing commandant, "Mrs. Bitch." The novel takes the guise of an autobiography by Smith, pseudonym for...
38965) Painting Death: A Novel
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Morris Duckworth has a dark past. Having married and murdered his way into a wealthy Italian family, he has become a respected member of Veronese business life. But it's not enough.
Never satisfied with being anything short of the best, he comes up with a plan to put on the most exciting art exhibition of the decade, based on a subject close to his heart: killing. All the great slaughters of scripture and classical times will be on show, from Cain...
38966) Afterlives of Endor
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Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines...
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Extrait : "Ce n'est pas dans les ouvrages religieux de l'antiquité, tels que les Védas, le Zend-Avesta, la Bible, qu'il faut aller chercher l'expression exacte des croyances élevées de leur époque. Écrits pour être lus, ou plutt chantés dans les temples, aux jours de grandes fêtes, ces Livres de la loi, conçus dans un but de domination sacerdotale, n'avaient point mission de livrer au vulgaire, le secret des sciences..."
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In Bowing to Elephants, a woman seeking love and authenticity comes to understand herself as a citizen of the world through decades of wandering the globe. During her travels she sees herself more clearly as she gazes into the feathery eyes of a 14,000-pound African elephant and looks for answers to old questions in Vietnam and the tragically ravaged landscape of Cambodia.
Bowing to Elephants is a travel memoir with a twist-the story of an unloved...
38969) Scotichronicon, Volume 6: Books XI-XII: New Edition in Latin and English With Notes and Indexes
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Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon-'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed,...
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Ce livre est publié en anglais.
À la suite de la rédaction de ses deux romans les plus importants, Guerre et paix et Anna Karénine, l'auteur russe Léon Tolstoï a vécu une crise spirituelle qui l'a amené à dénoncer les privilèges dont jouissait sa classe sociale et les richesses matérielles afférentes, et à accueillir la vie champêtre du paysan. Dans la secte persécutée des Doukhobors, qui rejetaient aussi le militarisme et les rituels...
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Extrait: "L'Empereur ordonnait à tous ceux qui avaient une position dans l'État de beaucoup recevoir, et surtout d'inviter les étrangers de distinction. Il y avait alors à Paris deux ou trois maisons, dans ce que l'Empereur appelait le camp ennemi, o l'opinion contre l'Empire était prononcé avec une telle netteté que c'était avouer une bannière que d'y aller."
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38972) Travel Light
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From the dark ages to modern times, from the dragons of medieval forests to Constantinople, this is a fantastic and philosophical fairy-tale journey that will appeal to fans of Harry Potter, Diana Wynne Jones, and T. H. White’s The Sword in the Stone.
38973) (M)othering: an anthology
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(M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. 56 contributors illuminate the kind of gritty, body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love.
These writers and artists show us what it means to...
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Benedict Cumberbatch's career is built to last. From his early success as a working actor through his dynamic trajectory to international star, Cumberbatch continues to be one of the best thespians of his generation. Those who know Cumberbatch primarily because of his award-winning star turn as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC's Sherlock know only a fraction of the actor's noteworthy professional history, including such critically acclaimed roles as, on...
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The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential figures in world history. From ancient times to the American Revolution to as recently as this past century, Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time. Featuring such disparate historical characters as Cicero, St. Francis of Assisi, Benjamin Franklin, Robert...
38976) Scotichronicon, Volume 3: Books V-VI: New Edition in Latin and English With Notes and Indexes
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Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon-'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It goes on to describe the turbulent events that followed,...
38977) Blackout
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Bologna in August: unbearable heat, an empty city. Claudia is a young student in a hurry to return home from her work as a waitress and get out of the skimpy uniform she hates. Tomas is a young man on his way to elope to Amsterdam with his girlfriend, Francesca. Aldo is a husband and father with an uncanny resemblance to Elvis Presley, anxious to get to an apartment filled with guilty secrets. All three have an urgent need to be somewhere else. Instead,...
38978) Les mes mortes
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Dans une ville provinciale de Russie, le mystérieux Tchitchikov offre aux propriétaires terriens de leur racheter leurs « âmes mortes » — leurs serfs décédés depuis le dernier recensement. Galerie de portraits, satire mordante, odyssée burlesque, Les mes mortes sont le premier grand roman russe.
Traduction intégrale et conforme au texte russe, avec une introduction et des notes, par Henri Mongault, 1925.
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The insightful and heartwarming memoir of one of twentieth-century America's most celebrated frontier writers Dee Brown's fascinating memoir describes a writer's evolution-and a time when catching rides on trains or seeing the landing of a Curtiss Jenny airplane were simple and profound pleasures. Brown traces his upbringing in Arkansas in the early 1900s, and the oil boom that hit his tiny town. He writes of how he fell under the spell of books and...
38980) Joe Gould's Secret
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The enduring cult classic by an icon of American journalism Acclaimed journalist and staff writer for the New Yorker Joseph Mitchell tells the story of Joe Gould, an odd and penniless and unemployable little man who came to this city in 1916 and ducked and dodged and held on as hard as he could for over thirty-five years. Written originally as two separate profiles (Professor Sea Gull in 1942 and then Joe Gould's Secret twenty-two years later), the...
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