Literary 82

Ce document nous présente le journal authentique d'un civil, déporté de force vers l'Allemagne, en 1916, pour compenser les pertes effrayantes causées par les grandes batailles d'usure, comme, en 19……続きを見る

Les Editions Memory nous présentent un livre-roman, écrit par l’héroïne ! Une histoire triste, mais racontée de telle façon qu'elle se transforme en bonheur ! L' auteur Jules Boulard entraîne le lec……続きを見る

Le vieux fossoyeur veille sur ses morts et apprend au jeune Luke, son futur remplaçant, les secrets de famille de certains disparus. Par bribes, il lui distille des mystères parfois sordides. Par mo……続きを見る

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an ideal……続きを見る

Diarmuid Breathnach, is well-renowned for his writing, his work with Cumann Merriman, his broadcasting work with RTÉ and, above all, for his work in bringing to fruition nine volumes of Beathaisnéis……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia, " The Twelve Caesars is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar until Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum...It was written by Gaius Suetoni……続きを見る

Autobiographical work by Goethe, set in 1792. In the original German. According to Wikipedia: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called hi……続きを見る

La Double Maîtresse - Henri de Régnier Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier……続きを見る

Extrait :  Pour écrire l’histoire de sa vie, il faut d’abord avoir vécu ; aussi n’est-ce pas la mienne que j’écris. Mais de même qu’un blessé atteint de la gan……続きを見る

Extrait : Quelque part dans l’État de Nevada, il existe une femme à qui j’ai menti sans vergogne pendant deux heures d’affilée. Je ne cherche point ici à faire mes excuses, loin de là ! Je désire se……続きを見る

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. In a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religio-philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus,……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Tagebuch für Stella: 65 Briefe an Esther Johnson" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Jonathan Swift (1667-1……続きを見る

Across the Plains is a travel memoir by Robert Louis Stevenson. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is dividied into 7 subsections……続きを見る

Take a trip down memory lane and read about the life of Britain's most beloved vet, who charmed us all with his bestselling tales of veterinary life in Yorkshire. 'A wonderful, glorious insight into……続きを見る

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote p……続きを見る

'A joy. Celebrates the real world and revels in its mad glory' Sue Townsend, Sunday Times _____________________________________ All Points North is part-memoir and part-excursion. Charting the rugge……続きを見る

Following the bestselling SUMMER OF A DORMOUSE, Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more wickedly funny lessons in living and growing old disgracefull……続きを見る

In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – ……続きを見る

The little known story of the inseparable brother and sister, lights of the Romantic circle, privately haunted by madness Wordsworth thought that if there were such a thing as a good man, it would b……続きを見る

'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell follo……続きを見る

A House Unlocked is Booker Prize winning author Penelope Lively's classic memoir. The only child of divorced parents, Penelope Lively was often sent to stay at her grandparents' country house Golson……続きを見る

Virgina Woolf is the greatest of all British women writers and one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century writing. She was a novelist utterly immersed in books, wholly original, passio……続きを見る

George Orwell's searing account of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has l……続きを見る

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood an……続きを見る

'Sharp, unsentimental and ruefully funny. A fascinating portrait not only of Lively but of the times through which she has lived' Daily Telegraph 'Clever and poignant . . . there is much to enjoy. T……続きを見る

'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .' In his much-anticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive life. It is a sto……続きを見る

From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz and Across the Land and Water comes A Place in the Country, the much anticipated translation of one of W.G. Sebald's most brilliant works. When……続きを見る

'In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could do to any person; I create myself' Intimate, vulnerable and unsparing, Reborn bears witness to the evolution of Susan Sontag. Wi……続きを見る

'Potter's marvellous voice, captured in letters and journals, comes through loud and clear ... Lear gives us much to consider about this unfamiliar and remarkable woman' Daily Telegraph Beatrix Pott……続きを見る

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa'……続きを見る