Ivan: 1319 books

Considered to be Turgenev's greatest love story, The Torrents of Spring is a bittersweet story of young love steered astray by passion. While traveling through Germany, nobleman Dmitri Sanin meets Gemma Roselli, a beautiful Italian girl who works in her family's shop. They fall in love as Sanin saves...

UN PATRIOTE - AU QUATORZIÈME SIÈCLE - LES HÉROÏNES DE HARLEM....Dame Kanau Hasselaer était debout dans la grande salle de sa maison de Harlem, avec ses deux neveux, Nicolas et Pierre Hasselaer. Les jeunes gens parlaient haut et comme animés d’une ardeur plus grave et plus amère qu’il n’est...

LUTIN ET DÉMON.....Il était tantôt minuit ; le comte de Foix, Gaston Phébus, descendait lentement de sa chambre, où il avait coutume de se reposer quelques heures avant le souper. L’air était vif, car on était près des montagnes au milieu desquelles Orthez est bâtie, et les jours courts...

SAINT ET ROI - LOUIS IX A LA CROISADE (1244-1254) La reine Marguerite de Provence était à Pontoise, dans sa chambre ; elle était debout auprès d’une porte, elle prêtait l’oreille et semblait attendre un signal. Un bruit de pas retentit dans l’escalier de pierre ; quelqu’un avait frappé...

Trois des quatre scènes historiques qui composent ce volume empruntent une grande partie de leur intérêt aux précieux travaux sur l’histoire de Normandie laissés par M. Floquet, auteur de l’Histoire du Parlement de Normandie, du Privilège de saint Romain et des Anecdotes normandes. CLOCHES...

LA GUERRE DE CENT ANS. — ODETTE LA SUIVANTE CHEZ JEANNE DE MONTFORT ET BÉATRIX DE BOHÈME (1341-1347)...C’ÉTAIT au mois de mai 1341, vers le matin, dans un vaste château fort du duché de Bretagne ; Jeanne, comtesse de Montfort, était assise dans une grande salle dont les vitraux, ornés de...

Designed for vegetarians and healthy-living enthusiasts, “Cooking Vegetables Instead of Meat”, is a vintage cookbook full of simple but effective recipes for delicious vegetable cuisine. This timeless cookbook is highly recommended for everyone looking to spice up their culinary competence, and...

Hear What the Critics are Saying   "Wow, what an Amazing Book for young adults; truly inspirational, very entertaining and highly thought provoking. The Path is by far one of the best novels to have come out in a long time." -Mary Jones – Valley Daily News  ...

The subject matters of book two picks up where book one leaves off on Christianity. Yes it does continue to speak more about the characteristic's of God and Jesus Christ that was covered in book one and their make up therein but it also continues to question their existence with facts not mention...

The birth of religion started from a simple concept humanity's inability to explain the unexplainable until one added gods to the equation. A Jewish Hebrew scholar not knowing about prior pagan religions and their gods, rituals and stories--would have been like a history teacher today not knowing...

Bazarov - a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man - has journeyed from school to the home of his friend Arkady Kirsanov. But soon Bazarov's outspoken rejection of authority and social conventions touches off quarrels, misunderstandings, and romantic entanglements that will utterly transform the Kirsanov household and reflect the changes taking place all across nineteenth-century Russia.

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance...

I was then five-and-twenty, -that was a sufficient indication that I had a past, said he, beginning. My own master for some little time, I resolved to travel, -not to complete my education, as they said at the time, but to see the world...

When a young graduate returns home he is accompanied, much to his father and uncle's discomfort, by a strange friend "who doesn't acknowledge any authorities, who doesn't accept a single principle on faith." Turgenev's masterpiece of generational conflict shocked Russian society when it...