Pierre: 6175 books

Antarctica... a frozen wasteland of penguins, blinding ice and snow, and blizzards to kill the unprepared in minutes. But it is an ancient land, with ancient secrets, mysteries that humanity is only beginning to glimpse. HP Lovecraft introduced the world to the terrifying reality of this lonely continent...

Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a French Jesuit spiritual director and writer born in the late seventeenth century, is best known for his belief in the sacredness of the present moment, or the "eternal now." His masterpiece, Abandonment to Divine Providence, has been celebrated by spiritual writers as diverse...

Décryptez Un secret de Philippe Grimbert avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir d’Un secret, le roman-choc sur l'identité juive de la littérature française contemporaine ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une fiche de lecture complète...

Décryptez Le Père Goriot d'Honoré de Balzac avec l’analyse du PetitLitteraire.fr ! Que faut-il retenir du Père Goriot, le roman incontournable de la littérature française ? Retrouvez tout ce que vous devez savoir sur cette œuvre dans une analyse complète et détaillée. Vous trouverez notamment...

Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrationsFeatured in Ron Miller’s “The Conquest of Space Book Series.” In Pierre Mael's 1898 Under the Sea to the North Pole, heroic Isabelle de Keralio is one of the leaders of an expedition that plans to reach the North Pole...

This file includes the plays The Cid and Polyeucte. According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (6 June 1606 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian who was one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine. He has been called “the founder of French tragedy” and produced plays for nearly forty years."

Les Liaisons dangereuses (French pronunciation: ​[le ljɛ.zɔ̃ dɑ̃.ʒə.ʁøz]; Dangerous Liaisons) is a French epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in four volumes by Durand Neveu from March 23, 1782. It is the story of the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de...

Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an "extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play vanished from the...

A serial killer stalks the streets of post-World War II Berlin in this international bestselling thriller.   Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been highly acclaimed. Ben, a German boy retrieving cigarette butts to repackage and sell on the black...

Aphrodite is a French-language novel by Pierre Louÿs. Set in Alexandria, the novel tells the story of Chrysis, a courtesan, and the sculptor Démétrios. A Galilaean with long golden hair (source of her Greek nickname), Chrysis is proud of her beauty and her skill at winning the devotion and servility...

Vallée du Richelieu, printemps 1906. Alors que l’arrivée des beaux jours égaie la petite communauté de Douceville, les mauvaises langues se délient dans des lettres anonymes adressées à l’archevéché. Elles dénoncent le curé Grégoire, qui héberge au presbytère sa nièce Sophie, une...

Ce roman historique saura plaire aux milliers de lecteurs déjà séduits par les récits de Jean-Pierre Charland. Troisième et dernier tome de la saga Sur les berges du Richelieu.

In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all those of Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Algeria, that set out to crush the democratic uprisings of the 'Arab Revolution.' In pursuit of these goals they turned to...

Dauphiné, Les Histoires extraordinaires de mon grand-père - Rares sont les ouvrages qui vont chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette terre de cartes postales. Or cette vieille province de Dauphiné possède bien d'’autres trésors, bien d’'autres richesses, comme son patrimoine oral particulièrement...