Isaac Jules: 8 books

Un libro di storia scritto «alla macchia» nel 1942, durante l’occupazione tedesca della Francia, da un professore ebreo, mentre le donne della sua famiglia morivano ad Auschwitz. Un brillante esempio di storia allusiva, in cui l’Atene classica si fa «viva metafora del presente».

Mobilisé en août 1914, à 37 ans, l'historien Jules Isaac partagea la vie des fantassins pendant plus de trente mois sur l'Aisne, en Champagne, à Verdun, avant d'être blessé et évacué de son observatoire de la forêt de Hesse, au-dessus de Vauquois, à la fin juin 1917. Pendant toute cette...

Qui ne se souvient du retentissement qu'obtint le précédent livre de Jules Isaac, Jésus et Israël, livre bouleversant dont on a pu dire qu'il marquait une date dans l'histoire confrontée du judaïsme et du christianisme. Ce livre appelait une suite. La voici, sous un titre qui indique...

Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I Am Born in a Circus Wagon II I Become a Clown III I Join the Tented Circus IV I Tell About Clown Tricks V I Learn About Life VI I Relate Some Clown History VII I Give My Creed

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...

A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day. "An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!