Pierre: 6175 books

Pays Nantais, Les Petites histoires de la Vieille - Rares sont les ouvrages qui vont chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette terre de cartes postales. Or notre vieux terroir possède bien des trésors, bien des légendes. Personne ne sait où habite « la Vieille », mais elle accepte de raconter...

Alsace, les Petites histoires de la Vieille - Rares sont les ouvrages qui vont chercher ce qui se cache derrière cette terre de cartes postales. Or notre vieux terroir possède bien des trésors, bien des légendes. Personne ne sait où habite « la Vieille », mais elle accepte de raconter à Pierre-Jean...

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An Iceland Fisherman is a novel by French author Pierre Loti from 1886. It depicts the romantic but inevitably sad life of Breton fishermen who sail each summer season to the stormy Iceland cod grounds. Literary critic Edmund Gosse characterized it as "the most popular and finest of all his writings."

Richard Wilbur’s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille’s most famous play, a tragedy set in Seville that...

Contents: 1. Life is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca 2. Polyeucte, by Pierre Corneille 3. Phèdre, by Jean Racine 4. Tartuffe, by Molière 5. Minna von Barnhelm, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 6. William Tell, by Friedrich von Schiller

Already a favorite of theatres throughout the country, Tony Kushner's free adaptation of Pierre Corneille's most original, theatrical comedy, L'Illusion Comique, blends magic and truth, obsession and caprice, romance and murder, into an enticing exploration of the greatest illusion--love.

Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically...

Derick hunts demons. He's been doing it all his life. He's good at it, and he enjoys protecting others. It's always been a straightforward job, until a demon saves his life.

A surrealist exploration of the marvelous in ancient, classic, and modern works from around the world • Long considered one of the most significant and original books to have come out of the surrealist movement • Reveals the “marvelous” in works from William Blake, Edgar Allen...

Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambition to generate ever better forms of collective self-government, from ancient city-states and empires to a universal church and the nation-state. But the nation-state is nearing the end of its line, Pierre Manent says, and what will supplant it remains to be seen.

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Pierre Corneille was born in Rouen in 1606, the son of an official; was educated by the Jesuits, and practised unsuccessfully as a lawyer. His dramatic career began with the comedy of “Melite, ” but it was by his “Medee” that he first proved his tragic genius. “The Cid” appeared in 1636,...

According to Wikipedia: "Pierre Corneille (June 6, 1606 October 1, 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."