Pierre: 6175 books

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."

Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606–84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumphant in both comedy and tragedy, his plays remain at the core of the repertory. When...

Just where is the intersection between spirituality and medicine? Life and Death and the Things in Between is a collection of ten stories documenting the struggles and strengths of the human spirit as it searches for meaning amid challenging circumstances. The stories reveal the psychological and...

Habituellement, les ouvrages qui traitent des élèves en difficulté scolaire mettent l'accent sur l'intervention qui a pour cible les facteurs de risque. Dans celui-ci, l'auteur privilégie les facteurs de protection, fondement de la résilience. Pour ce faire, il adopte le courant de la psychologie...

EXTRAIT: N’as-tu point vu, Julie, la fille du pâtissier ? Comme elle était ce matin richement ajustée ! De bonne foi, lorsqu’elle est entrée dans l’église des Augustins, je l’ai prise pour une marquise, à la voir ; un jeune homme qui avoit les...

It's an ancient tradition among the Christians, especially in Catholic and Anglican domains, to celebrate the Stations of the Cross, also Way of the Cross or simply The Cross especially in the Holy Week and the Good Friday. If You search in the internet for these terms (Google, Wikipedia etc.),...

Small Lives (Vies minuscules), Pierre Michon’s first novel, won the Prix France Culture. Michon explains that he wrote it "to save my own skin. I felt in my body that my life was turning around. This book born in an aura of inexpressible joy and catharsis rescued me more effectively than my...

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) was an exceptional French writer of prose comedy during the eighteenth century. He is best known for his theatrical works of the three Figaro plays. Beaumarchais had an action-filled career as a watchmaker, musician, secret agent, businessman, diplomat...

Nous livrons des bruits récoltés en passant au tamis la clameur du monde. Bruits de l’enfance, bruits de la vie, bruits de la mort, bruits des pas, bruits des rêves, bruits des langues, bruits du désir, bruits du silence, bruits du soleil… Voix fragiles, peuplées de rivières, de vies cheminant...

This welcome volume brings to English-language readers two beautifully crafted works by the internationally acclaimed French author Pierre Michon. Populated by distant and little-known figures-Irish and French monks, saints, and scientists in Winter Mythologies; Benedictine monks in the Vendée region...

A continuation of the wildly successful best seller "Her", Pierre Alex Jeanty brings explosive emotion to "Her 2". This celebration of femininity and self-love also explores the woes of love. He offers warnings of the wrong types of attraction while encouraging healthy, fun, and...

Pierre Abélard (1079-1142) was a medieval French philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician. The story of his affair with and love for Héloïse has become legendary. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "the keenest thinker and boldest theologian of the 12th Century."...

Depression: The Fool-Proof Method To Overcome Depression and Stress In the last decade, depression rates in US have skyrocketed, and scientists estimate that one in four Americans will suffer from major depression at some point in their lives. When somebody suffers from depression, loved ones and friends...

Saga d’une famille de l’Ouest. Refus d’autorité, désir d’émancipation, échecs et déceptions, le tout entrecroisé d’un désir acharné de bonheur