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  • The Common Reader

    par Virginia Woolf ...
    Collections Livre 1 - The Common Reader
    A collection of essays from the acclaimed author of Mrs. Dalloway on such subjects as Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, and her own literary philosophy.A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.Not written for scholars or critics, these essays are a collection of Virginia Woolf's everyday thoughts about ... En savoir plus

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  • Whose Story Is This?

    Old Conflicts, New Chapters

    par Rebecca Solnit ...
    Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from "the voice of the resistance," the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me ( The New York Times Magazine).Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and ... En savoir plus

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  • Thy Will Be Done

    The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

    Collections Livre 25 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A "blistering exposé" of the USA's secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction ( Publishers Weekly ).What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year ... En savoir plus

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  • The Brass Check

    A Study of American Journalism

    par Upton Sinclair ...
    A muckraking exposé of corruption in American journalism from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The JungleUpton Sinclair dedicated his life to documenting the destructive force of unbridled capitalism. In this influential study, he takes on the effect of money and power on mass media, arguing that the newspapers, magazines, and wire services of the Progressive era formed "a class institution ... En savoir plus

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  • Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... En savoir plus

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  • Lectures on Literature

    The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others—with an introduction by John Updike.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired. For two decades those lectures served as the basis for Nabokov's ... En savoir plus

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  • The Love Letters

    A Novel

    From the Newbery Medal–winning author of A Wrinkle in Time , a woman finds inspiration in a seventeenth-century nun's life after the loss of her child.After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana ... En savoir plus

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  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    par Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... En savoir plus

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  • The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta

    The Persian Challenge

    Collections series Yale Library of Military History
    "Powerfully illustrates . . . that this regime determined the character and limits of Sparta's domestic and foreign policy." (Susan D. Collins, The Review of Politics)More than 2500 years ago a confederation of small Greek city-states defeated the invading armies of Persia, the most powerful empire in the world. In this meticulously researched study, historian Paul Rahe argues that Sparta was ... En savoir plus

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  • Lingo

    Around Europe in Sixty Languages

    par Gaston Dorren ...
    Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One "brisk and breezy" whirlwind armchair tour of Europe "bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia" ( The Wall Street Journal).Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways and whys of Euro-speaks—its idiosyncrasies, its histories, commonalities, and differences.Most European languages are ... En savoir plus

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  • Defending Heaven

    China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370

    "A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols."— StrategyPageDefending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, the complete histories of the wars the Jin, Song, Xia, and Ming dynasties fought against the Mongols. Lasting nearly two centuries, these wars, fought to defend Chinese ... En savoir plus

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  • Soldiers' Pay

    Collections series Vintage International
    William Faulkner's first novel is one of the most compelling works of American fiction to emerge from the First World War.A wounded veteran's homecoming is at the center of Faulkner's first novel. Badly scarred in body and mind, and unable to remember much, Donald Mahon is brought home at the end of the World War I by a fellow soldier and a young war widow they befriend on the train. Mahon's ... En savoir plus

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