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A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas. |
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Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich American girl. She comes to Europe with her mother and brother to travel and see the sights. In Switzerland she meets Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived in Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners… |
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Mary Shelley was not yet twenty years old when she wrote this classic tale of a scientist’s attempt to create a new noble species – an experiment which instead produces a monster. Frankenstein is here presented in the 2nd, revised edition of 1831 and includes an analysis of the most recent criticism on Shelley’s science fiction masterpiece, as well as an extensive filmography. |
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Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book — a story about the British empire, spies, friendship, spirituality and, most of all, India. |
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What really happened on board the famous ship, the Bounty? Why did the sailors mutiny against their captain, and where did they take the ship? How did the captain and his loyal crew survive a 5,000 mile journey? Join Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian and Tom on their incredible adventures at sea, and discover what the Bounty mutiny was really about. |
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Catherine Morland is going on her first visit to the city of Bath. She is seventeen and comes from a small, quiet town in the English countryside. She likes Gothic novels. When she makes friends with the handsome young Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, she will find herself in the middle of a family tragedy. Henry’s home, Northanger Abbey, is the scene of a crime. Or is it all just a product of Catherine’s imagination? |
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Rudolf Rassendyll comes from an ancient English family that has had a romantic connection with the royal household of Ruritania. He decides to visit Ruritania and is rapidly caught up in the political events of the country... |
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The kindly gentleman, Mr Allworthy, returns home from a voyage to find that someone has left a baby boy in his house. He adopts the foundling, giving him the name Tom Jones. Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a son called Master Blifil. While Tom grows into a wild but honest young man, Blifil becomes a scheming hypocrite. But what happens when Tom falls in love with a neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, Sophia, whose family wish her to marry Blifil? |
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In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and – for a while – the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she begins to see the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and the manservant Peter Quint... |
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Just like every other year, Marie de Longchamp travels with friends and family to the magnificent villa, Au Lis des vallées, on the banks of the Loire to celebrate her birthday. Just upon her arrival Marie learns that someone has stolen all the silverware. Marie is upset, but the theft is just the beginning of a series of events that disturb the party and forever affect the lives of the protagonists... |
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Roman philosophique dans lequel Voltaire nous présente les formes les plus variées de maux. Des maux naturels à ceux provoqués par la méchanceté humaine, Candide conclut cette succession d'aventures en invitant chacun de nous à cultiver son jardin. Loin de se replier sur lui-même, chacun doit enrichir, fertiliser ce jardin c'est-à-dire le monde! |
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What links the sudden death of a cat and that of a countess? Find out by taking part in the investigation, set in an elegant area of Paris and follow the footsteps of a killer. At the end of each chapter discover more about Paris’s museums, monuments, etc. in À la découverte de Paris. |
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Camille lives in Bastia but must spend the end of her summer holidays with her grandmother in Zicavo, a little village in the middle of the Corsican countryside. The girl doesn't want to go because she's afraid of getting bored. Fortunately she meets Alex, a boy of her age, whom she finds very a nice and quite cute. The two kids become friends and spend a lot of time together, until Alex suddenly disappears… |
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The book is about the fantastic adventures of Grandgousier, Gargantua and Pantagruel, three members of a family of giants. The birth of Gargantua from her mother's ear, Pantagruel who drank the milk of 4600 cows, the battles against Picrochole and Loup Garou, are just a few of the episodes which made Rabelais's work famous. |
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This is a collection of simple stories humorously describing the lives of some characters in the South of France. Discover the courage and tenacity of the goat of Monsieur Sequin's secret maître Cornille and find out why it's better not to offend the Pope Boniface's mule... |
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Cette littérature est destinée aux étudiants qui ont pour objectif non seulement la connaissance complète de la littérature française, mais aussi l’acquisition des techniques de lecture et d’écriture (résumés, commentaires...) à partir de textes littéraires ou d’articles de presse. Structure: L’ouvrage comprend quatre volumes: — Littérama Clefs de lecture — Littérama Moyen-Âge — XVIIIe — Littérama XIXe — Littérama XXe Contenus: Le premier volume – Littérama Clefs de lecture – fournit les outils nécessaires pour affronter l’analyse des textes et reconnaître la spécificité de chaque genre (narration, poésie, théâtre): la structure du texte, les types de texte, les figures de style, les genres littéraires... Chaque argument est accompagné de nombreuses activités organisées de façon progressive. |
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Cette littérature est destinée aux étudiants qui ont pour objectif non seulement la connaissance complète de la littérature française, mais aussi l’acquisition des techniques de lecture et d’écriture (résumés, commentaires...) à partir de textes littéraires ou d’articles de presse. Structure L’ouvrage comprend quatre volumes: — Littérama Clefs de lecture — Littérama Moyen-Âge — XVIIIe — Littérama XIXe — Littérama XXe Contenus: Les volumes – Littérama Moyen-Âge – XVIIIe, Littérama XIXe et Littérama XXe présentent un panorama de la littérature dans son contexte social, historique et artistique. Chaque siècle est présenté à l’aide de différentes rubriques: – L’histoire – La société – Les arts – Les sciences L’attention ponctuelle portée aux aspects culturels s’accompagne de nombreuses activités sur les textes qui synthétisent les méthodes d’analyse systématique présentées dans le premier volume. |
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Cette littérature est destinée aux étudiants qui ont pour objectif non seulement la connaissance complète de la littérature française, mais aussi l’acquisition des techniques de lecture et d’écriture (résumés, commentaires...) à partir de textes littéraires ou d’articles de presse. Structure: L’ouvrage comprend quatre volumes: — Littérama Clefs de lecture — Littérama Moyen-Âge — XVIIIe — Littérama XIXe — Littérama XXe Contenus: Les volumes – Littérama Moyen-Âge – XVIIIe, Littérama XIXe et Littérama XXe présentent un panorama de la littérature dans son contexte social, historique et artistique. Chaque siècle est présenté à l’aide de différentes rubriques: – L’histoire – La société – Les arts – Les sciences L’attention ponctuelle portée aux aspects culturels s’accompagne de nombreuses activités sur les textes qui synthétisent les méthodes d’analyse systématique présentées dans le premier volume. |
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seulement la connaissance complète de la littérature française, mais aussi l’acquisition des techniques de lecture et d’écriture (résumés, commentaires...) à partir de textes littéraires ou d’articles de presse. Structure: L’ouvrage comprend quatre volumes: — Littérama Clefs de lecture — Littérama Moyen-Âge — XVIIIe — Littérama XIXe — Littérama XXe Contenus: Les volumes – Littérama Moyen-Âge – XVIIIe, Littérama XIXe et Littérama XXe présentent un panorama de la littérature dans son contexte social, historique et artistique. Chaque siècle est présenté à l’aide de différentes rubriques: – L’histoire – La société – Les arts – Les sciences L’attention ponctuelle portée aux aspects culturels s’accompagne de nombreuses activités sur les textes qui synthétisent les méthodes d’analyse systématique présentées dans le premier volume. |
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