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Saint-Exupéry escribe este canto de amor y ternura inigualable dirigido a los adultos, aunque quizá sean los nños los que puedan entender su hermosisimo mensaje.
Before Sherlock Holmes, There Was Private Detective Ebenezer Gryce
The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green is one of the very first mystery masterpieces of our modern times. Set in New York City, detective Ebenezer Gryce accepts to investigate the curious murder case of one very rich man, Horatio Leavenworth. Many clues lead to the two nieces but are they truly responsible for their uncle's death? Maybe this is where "The butler did
...Last Bus to Woodstock is the novel that began Colin Dexter's phenomenally successful Inspector Morse series.
'Do you think I'm wasting your time, Lewis?'
Lewis was nobody's fool and was a man of some honesty and integrity.
'Yes, sir.'
An engaging smile crept across Morse's mouth. He thought they could get on well together . . .
The death of Sylvia Kaye figured dramatically in Thursday
Rain and Other South Sea Stories features one of Maugham's most famous tales,...
La vérité, lâpre vérité.
DANTON.
Chapitre premier. Une petite ville
Put thousands together Less bad, But the cage less gay.
HOBBES.
La petite ville de Verrières peut passer pour lune des plus jolies de la Franche-Comté. Ses maisons blanches avec leurs toits pointus de tuiles rouges sétendent sur la pente dune colline, dont des touffes de vigoureux châtaigniers marquent les moindres sinuosités. Le Doubs
6) Germinal
Dans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans étoiles, d'une obscurité et d'une épaisseur d'encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes à Montsou dix kilomètres de pavé coupant tout droit, à travers les champs de betteraves. Devant lui, il ne voyait même pas le sol noir, et il n'avait la sensation de l'immense horizon plat que par les souffles du vent de mars, des rafales larges comme sur une mer, glacées d'avoir balayé des lieues
...By the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell's Shogun is soon to be a major FX/Hulu TV series!
Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete novel.
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he
...Special edition of Paul Harding's Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel—featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras inside
In this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travels deep into his past, where he is reunited with his father and relives the wonder
...11) Julia: a novel
"The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America."—The Nation
O. E. Rolvaag's classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the exploration of America
Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag's own recollections as well of those of his wife's
...Who can resist a good story; especially when it's being told by Grandma? From her bag emerges tales of kings and cheats; monkeys and mice; bears and gods. Here comes the bear who ate some really bad dessert and got very angry; a lazy man who would not put out a fire till it reached his beard; a princess who got turned into an onion; a queen who discovered silk; and many more weird and wonderful people and animals. Grandma tells the stories over
...As a young boy, Luzhin was unattractive, distracted, withdrawn, sullen—an enigma to his parents and an object of ridicule to his classmates. He takes up chess as a refuge from the anxiety of his everyday life. His talent is prodigious and he rises to the rank of grandmaster—but at a cost: in Luzhin' s obsessive...
15) Change Your Life
A new selection and translation, by an acclaimed poet, of Rilke’s most essential work – the perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life
In dazzling new translations of 142 poems by the acclaimed Martyn Crucefix, Rilke beguiles with fresh insight and mystery.
Rainer Maria Rilke...
« "Est-ce qu'elle va encore nous empêcher de dormir, cette nuit ?" pensai-je, car il faut que je vous dise, monsieur, que, jusqu'à fin octobre, j'habite dans le grenier du pavillon, au-dessus de la chambre jaune, à seule fin que mademoiselle ne reste pas seule toute la nuit au fond du parc. C'est...
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A Marie-Antoine-Jules Senard MEMBRE DU BARREAU DE PARIS EX-PRESIDENT DE L'ASSEMBLEE NATIONALE ET ANCIEN MINISTRE DE L'INTERIEUR
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