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The Chamberlain family spent a dozen blissful years in pre World War II France, with their beloved cook, Clementine, learning the gustatory pleasures of snail hunting in their backyard and bottling their own wine. When war rumblings sent them sc[...]texte imprimé
Quelle est donc cette chimère illusoire et vide de sens que cette absurde quête du bonheur ? Le niais et débilitant contentement de soi est une fin suprême pour les frileux, les imbéciles dont la seule ambition consiste à contourner les obstacle[...]texte imprimé
Epileptic est une grande première pour l'Association, puisqu'il s'agit de son premier livre en langue étrangère. Voici déjà quelques temps, l'idée de traduire directement en anglais quelques fleurons du catalogue s'est concrétisée. Il a paru évi[...]texte imprimé
In the history of legendary boxers, there was Joe Louis and Sonny Liston . . . and then, “the heavens opened up, and there appeared a great man descending on a cloud, jump-roping into the Kingdom of Boxing. And he was called Cassius Clay.” Clay [...]texte imprimé
From 1935 until his death, Albert Camus kept a series of notebooks to sketch out ideas for future works, record snatches of conversations and excerpts from books he was reading, and jot down his reflections on death and the horror of war, his fe[...]texte imprimé
Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, [...]texte imprimé
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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-centur[...]texte imprimé
In the classic French novel The Passionate Epicure, Marcel Rouff introduces Dodin-Bouffant, a character based loosely on Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, an infamous bachelor and epicure dedicated to the high arts: the art of food and the art of love. [...]texte imprimé
The “Guermantes Way,” in this the third volume of In Search of Lost Time, refers to the path that leads to the Duc and Duchess de Guermantes’s château near Combray. It also represents the narrator’s passage into the rarefied “social kaleidoscope[...]