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Cover of Hymnes homériques
by Homère, Leconte de Lisle
Language: French
Release Date: February 5, 2016

À Apollon     À Hermès     À Aphroditè     À Aphroditè 2     À Dionysos     À Arès     À Artémis     À...
Cover of Selected Essays
by Clark Blaise
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009

Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual...
Cover of Mélanges d'histoire et de voyages
by Ernest Renan
Language: French
Release Date: November 23, 2015

Préface.  de la part des peuples sémitiques dans l’histoire de la civilisation (1862).  l’ancienne égypte (1865).  vingt jours en sicile (1875).  la découverte de ninive (1853).  le schahnameh (1877).  les césars (1868 et 1878). ...
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The Word Museum

The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten

by Jeffrey Kacirk
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001

ENTER A GALLERY OF WIT AND WHIMSY As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Now from the author of Forgotten English comes a collection of fascinating archaic...
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The Artist As Critic

Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013

Oscar Wilde, although most commonly known as a playright, was also a critic. The Artist as Critic is a wide selection of Wilde's book reviews as well as famous longer works such as "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.," "The Soul Man under Socialism," and the four essays which make up Intentions.
Cover of Veillées de l’Ukraine
by Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016

Préface  La Foire de Sorotchinetz  Une nuit de mai       I. — Hanna       II. — Le bailli       III. — Un rival inattendu. — Le complot.       IV. — Les parobki s’amusent.     ...
Cover of Le Roi des Gnomes
by Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016

Dès que la cloche du séminaire, qui était pendue devant la porte du couvent des frères, à Kiew, se mettait en branle, on voyait arriver de toutes les parties de la ville des groupes d’écoliers. Les grammairiens, les rhétoriciens, les philosophes et...
Cover of Les Âmes mortes: Tome II
by Nicolas Vassiliévitch Gogol, Ernest Charrière
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2016

Chant XI Départ pour de nouvelles expéditions Chant XII Téntëtnikof ou chagrins d’amour Chant XIII Un vieux débris de 1812 Chant XIV Lacune et hypothèse Chant XV Deux originaux, chacun dans son genre Chant XVI Le fou et le sage dans les steppes Chant XVII...
Cover of Beckett Remembering/Remembering Beckett
by Samuel Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014

In life, Beckett was notoriously reticent, preferring to let his work speak for itself. In the first half of this collection, he reveals many of his inner thoughts and honest opinions about his life, writing, friends, and colleagues in candid interviews published for the first time in this book. He...
Cover of La Grande Morale , Livre II
by Aristote
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2015

. Après ce qui précède, il faudrait peut-être porter notre étude sur l'honnêteté, et dire ce qu'elle est, dans quels cas elle se manifeste, et à quoi elle s'applique. L'honnêteté est la qualité de l'homme qui exige moins que ne lui assureraient ses droits fondés sur la loi. Il y a une...
Cover of La Littérature de tout à l’heure
by Charles Morice
Language: French
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Avertissement      I. De la Vérité et de la Beauté      II. Les Formules accomplies      III. TRANSITIONS     IV. Formules nouvelles      V. Commentaires d’un Livre futur
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Myself and Some Other Being

Wordsworth and the Life Writing

by Daniel Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014

As a young writer with neither profession nor money, William Wordsworth committed himself to a career as a poet, embracing what he believed was his destiny. But even the “giant Wordsworth,” as his friend and collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge called him, had his doubts. In Myself and Some Other...
Cover of À M. d’Alembert
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015

J’ai tort, si j’ai pris en cette occasion la plume sans nécessité. Il ne peut m’être ni avantageux ni agréable de m’attaquer à M. d’Alembert. Je considere sa personne : j’admire ses talens : j’aime ses ouvrages : je suis sensible au bien qu’il a dit...
Cover of Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: French
Release Date: December 29, 2015

CHAPITRE PREMIER. État de la question.     CHAPITRE II. Esprit des anciennes institutions.     CHAPITRE III. Application.     CHAPITRE IV. Éducation     CHAPITRE V. Vice radical.     CHAPITRE VI. Question des...
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