Ce roman s'inspire de nombreux faits ou hypothèses historiques pour écrire la vie quotidienne d'un homme du Nord et de sa fille. Des circonstances accidentelles, mais aussi historiques, les forcent à migrer vers le Sud. Cette chronique nous parvient donc d'un temps ou l'écriture n'existait pas encore.

Greece. Southeastern Crete. Somewhere in the near future an odd city has been emerging from the economic void like a weed from a crack in concrete. Years later, it continues to build itself towards the planned, final height of about six miles.This is the chronicle of a few characters passing through a relatively short period of time in this improbable but possible environment. Although there is a logic to why and how things happen, what it really is when they do happen...

About 5,000 years ago, people were not that different from us. Looking at things this way probably would bring us too close to contemplating the tininess of this slice of time and universe we occupy. Even creating a past filled with myths, dragons and fantastic populations and societies helps ward off such painful awareness. None of that here.About 5,000 years ago, people were moving around.About 5,000 years ago in Northern Europe, where the story starts, agriculture was ga...

Les quatre premiers volumes: Du côté de chez Swann, 1913; A L'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, 1919 ; Le Côté de Guermantes, 1920-1921; and Sodome et Gommorrhe, 1921-1922.Selon Wikipédia: "Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 Juillet 1871 - 18 Novembre 1922) était un romancier, essayiste et critique français, mieux connu comme l'auteur de À la recherche du temps perdu (en anglais, À la recherche de Lost Time, anciennement traduit par Remembrance of Things Past), une œuv...

Cette version du livre contient une table des matières active. Les 11 000 vers des Contemplations furent écrits dès 1834, mais surtout pendant l'exil à Jersey, puis à Guernesey, en particulier à partir de 1853 alors que Hugo composait les Châtiments. Mettant fin au silence lyrique qu'il observait depuis les Rayons et les Ombres (1840), le recueil, sommet de sa production poétique, somme de sa vie, de sa sensibilité et de sa pensée, se présente comme «les Mémoires d'une âme» (Préface). Si «...

A Love Story That Defies All Odds—A Timeless Classic by Charlotte Brontë Orphaned, mistreated, and determined to find her place in the world, Jane Eyre's journey is one of resilience, passion, and self-discovery. As a governess at Thornfield Hall, she encounters the enigmatic Mr. Rochester, a man who ignites her deepest desires yet harbors dark secrets that could shatter everything. This masterpiece blends romance, mystery, and gothic intrigue, captivating readers for generations with its ...

This collection includes: Comédie de la mort (1838), Mademoiselle de Maupin (1835), Ménagerie intime (1869), and Sacountala, a ballet (1858). According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, ...

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Le Journal D'une Femme De Chambre by Octave Mirbeau.

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Classic naturalist novel, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major novel, Therese Raquin (1867), Zola started the long series called Les Rougon Macquart, about a family under the Second Empire... More than half of Zola's novels were part of this set of 20 ...