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61) The Philter
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Read in French"The Philter" is a dual-language edition of "Le Philtre," Stendhal's brief tale of a young Spanish woman's inexplicable passion for a circus rider from Naples. Both the original French tale and the newly translated English version are hyperlinked to facilitate swift navigation from one language to the other.Genre: short storyLanguages: French and EnglishDate of English translation: 2012
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A Short Comedy Adapted for the Stage from "The Flower of Beauty" in Tales of Enchantment from Spain Part of the Series: Commedia dell'Arte Plays for the Modern Stage ACTOR'S EDITION Perpetua is perplexed when her son Arlecchino loses his apprenticeship, first at the bakery, and then at the butcher shop. But things begin to look up when Arlecchino apprentices with the court painter Brighella. For the king's dreams are haunted by visions of a princess,...
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El cuaderno recoge una selección de artículos de crítica literaria y ensayos breves de Gaziel, seudónimo del periodista y escritor Agustí Calvet i Pascual, considerado por Josep Pla como "la figura más señera del periodismo peninsular durante un cuarto de siglo". Más conocido como corresponsal de guerra durante la primera contienda mundial y como analista político en tiempos de la Segunda República española, Pláticas literarias da a conocer...
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“Immortal Comedy” is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In both its subject and style, “Immortal Comedy” is a seminal book. In it, Heller takes us on a journey through theories of comedy beginning with...
65) Éxtasis
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Inmerso en el sórdido submundo de las drogas, descubre que cada esquina es un rincón oscuro y solitario. Inicialmente ajeno a las consecuencias, se adentra en un juego peligroso, sin anticipar que el camino lo conducirá a una situación límite. A medida que la droga teje su tela destructiva, su vida se despliega en una espiral descendente, enfrentándolo a un ineludible desenlace. La narrativa explora las sombras de la adicción, revelando cómo...
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A history of the idea of "relevance" since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought.
Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how...
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"The Vines of Almaviva" is a libretto, a story told in rhyming couplets that could be enjoyed as a play or, if set to music, as a musical or an opera. But it is also a sequel to the opera, "The Marriage of Figaro" so it would be of greatest interest to people familiar with that opera and its precursor, "The Barber of Seville". It is not the first sequel to be written in this series, but unlike the half dozen others, it has a positive outlook. All...
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1811: As Britain stands on the brink of great change, Mina is far from home. Stolen and put to dangerous work, she longs to return to her family and farm. Instead, when one of her friends is killed, Mina finds herself risking everything on a perilous journey that will see her change the shape of history.
Two centuries later, Evie, daughter of legendary stars, has rejected fame for a secluded life in London. When her father is rushed to hospital...
70) Ismaelillo
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Ismaelillo (1882) es un libro fundamental para la literatura hispanoamericana y el volumen que inaugura el Modernismo en lengua española. En estos poemas José Martí inicia el lenguaje contemporáneo para la poesía en castellano. El poemario es una obra literaria única e inspiradora que presenta una colección de versos escritos por el cubano José Martí y dedicados a su hijo.
La influencia de este poemario de José Martí en escritores como...
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance-More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare-and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic...
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Reading a range of Italian works, Rubini considers the active transmittal of traditions through generations of writers and thinkers.
Rocco Rubini studies the motives and literary forms in the making of a "tradition," not understood narrowly, as the conservative, stubborn preservation of received conventions, values, and institutions, but instead as the deliberate effort on the part of writers to transmit a reformulated past across generations....
73) À fleur de terre
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ÉDitions Tnt
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2024
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Français
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Jean-Pierre Fabien est né à Montréal en 1955. Il est biologiste et a enseigné l'écologie au secondaire pendant 25 ans tout en favorisant l'approche terrain avec ses élèves afin d'établir un réel contact avec la nature. En 2005, il quitte l'enseignement afin d'offrir son soutien aux écoles d'éducation internationale à titre de professionnel. En 1990, il devient cofondateur du CORDEM, un club d'ornithologie dont le siège social est situé...
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Macho men or metrosexual guys? Mummy's boys or blokes under their missus' thumbs? Self-made entrepreneurs, pukka professionals and successful executives with their Mercedes Benz lives and designer-clad wives; husbands, sons, uncles, brothers and fathers – these successful, soulful and spirited Asian men have come a long way from their origins but they've all got roots! The Trouble with Asian Men is a vital, tender and hilarious insight into lives...
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Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone-scholar, student, or general reader-can turn for information on each of Petrarch's works, its place in the poet's oeuvre, and...
76) Vatican City
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Vatican City Beauty Through Watercolors
A wonderful collection of watercolor paintings of this beautiful city, showcasing the sublime and amazing sites through the beauty of the brush stroke...Get it now!
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In 1499, an anonymous 16-act play was published in the Spanish town of Burgos that influenced the flourishing of the Spanish language and literature. Known as the La Comedia of Calisto and Melibea, it became widely popular. As a result, other editions were published in the next three years. A second edition came off the press in 1500, and a third edition was printed in 1502. In this 1502 edition, readers could put a name to the author-Fernando de...
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Was wäre die Serie „Der Bergdoktor" ohne den Bergdoktor. Gemeint ist der Schauspieler Hans Sigl. Als Stargast im „Studio 2" des ORF 2 verrät Schauspielkollege Mark Keller, warum das so ist. Er erzählt, dass Hans Sigl das Drehteam zusammenschweißt. Er motiviert alle, nimmt jungen Schauspielkollegen die Angst, etwas nicht so gut hinzubekommen und ist schon morgens gut drauf. Mark Keller meint, dass der Erfolg der Serie maßgeblich mit Hans Sigl...
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Corazón de miel es un libro de poesías dedicado al amor que transforma nuestra existencia en la barca que se mece, en el rumor de olas, en el hechizo inundado, en la tierra prometida, en un billete solo de ida, en el maná esclarecido, en la lluvia inesperada, en el agravio incontrolado, en el crepúsculo engalanado, en un danzar de almas…Soy a través de tu verdad.Soy a través de tu amor verdadero.Soy a través de tu alma universal.Soy a través...
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In every moment, there is a poem.
In "The Stanzas of Time", Palak Tewary has been inspired by every day events - be it something as simple as choosing your favourite colour or as difficult as facing your greatest fear.
The words in The Stanzas of Time aim to provoke thought, offer hope, give a smile or maybe be a reflection. It is a collection of 36 inspirational and real poems in 14 forms - each poetry format is explained and detailed with...
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