La Bruyère livre ses réflexions sur les moeurs du XVIIesiècle, en seize chapitres dont, selon lui, ?quinze s'attachent àdécouvrir le faux et le ridicule qui se rencontrent dans l'objetdes passions et des attachements humains [et ] ne sont que lapréparation du seizième [ ... ] où l'athéisme est attaqué et où lespreuves de Dieu [ ... ] sont apportées. Satire sociale, protraits réflexions et maximes émaillent cetexte éminemment moraliste.
On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill,Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from therest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into itand fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand issevered as "the dome" comes down on it, people running errands inthe neighboring town are divided from their families, and carsexplode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where itcame from, and when -- or if -- it will go away. Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, findshimself teamed with a few intrepid citizens -- town newspaper ownerJulia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, aselect-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big JimRennie, a politician who will stop at nothing -- even murder -- tohold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horriblesecret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Domeitself. Because time isn't just short. It's running out.
"THE WISEST AND MOST CAPTIVATING NOVEL TAN HAS WRITTEN." --The Boston Sunday Globe "TRULY MAGICAL . . . UNFORGETTABLE . . . The first-person narrator is Olivia Laguni, and her unrelenting nemesis from childhood on is her half-sister, Kwan Li. . . . It is Kwan's haunting predictions, her implementation of the secret senses, and her linking of the present with the past that cause this novel to shimmer with meaning--and to leave it in the readers mind when the book has long been finished." --The San Diego Tribune "HER MOST POLISHED WORK . . . Tan is a wonderful storyteller, and the story's many strands--Olivia's childhood, her courtship and marriage, Kwan's ghost stories and village tales--propel the work to its climactic but bittersweet end." --USA Today "TAN HAS ONCE MORE PRODUCED A NOVEL WONDERFULLY LIKE A HOLOGRAM: turn it this way and find Chinese
Scott Schuman just wanted to take photographs of people that he met on the streets of New York who he felt looked great. His now-famous and much-loved blog, thesartorialist.com, is his showcase for the wonderful and varied sartorial tastes of real people across the globe. This book is a beautiful anthology of Scott ’s favorite images, accompanied by his insightful commentary. It includes photographs of well-known fashion figures alongside people encountered on the street whose personal style and taste demand a closer look. From the streets of New York to the parks of Florence, from Stockholm to Paris, from London to Moscow and Milan, these are the men and women who have inspired Scott and the many diverse and fashionable readers of his blog. After fifteen years in the fashion business, Scott Schuman felt a growing disconnect between what he saw on the runways and in magazines, and what real people were wearing. The Sartorialist was his attempt to redress the balance. Since its beginning, the b
Following the death of their eldest son, Ellie and TuckerGrant divorce and gradually make the transition into separatelives. But their two sons Zach and Kody are convinced that theirparents are still meant to be together. The brothers hatch a planto run away from home into the Oregon wilderness. Surely Ellie andTucker will come to their rescue--and their senses.
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner. Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Then David receives the offer of a lifetime: he is to write a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realises that there is a connection between this haunting book and the shadows that surround his home...
In this, his final adventure, Buchan's hero Richard Hannay becomes embroiled in one of the most hazardous escapades of his life. Two men are honour bound to help the tormented Valdemar Haraldsen, and a third decides to mastermind the whole affair out o-f sheer love of adventure and a dislike of villains. In the final event, the fate of Haraldsen and his three redoubtable defenders rests on the undaunted bravery of two children. Buchan is one of the best-loved story-tellers of histime, and this thriller reflects a fundamental faith in the magnanimity of human nature that is both inspiring and refreshing.
Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmès ! L'homme qui défie toutesles polices fran?aises contre l'as des détectives anglais.? C'estjustement quand je ne comprends plus que je soup?onne Arsène Lupin?, avoue le célèbre limier anglais. Quand deux hommes aussiintelligents s'affrontent, leur duel est un grand spectacle.Qui avolé le petit secrétaire d'acajou contenant un billet de loteriegagnant ? Qui a volé la lampe juive, le diamant bleu, joyau de lacouronne royale de France ? Qui joue les passe-murailles en pleinParis ? Arsène Lupin, toujours lui, l'éternel amoureux de la DameBlonde, plus insolent, plus ingénieux que jamais, déjouant une àune toutes les ruses de l'Anglais par d'autres ruses plusétonnantes encore.
Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle ofthe Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one ofour greatest storytellers.In The Warrior's Path, Louis L'Amourtells the story of Yance and Kin Sackett, two brothers who are thelast hope of a young woman who faces a fate worse than death. WhenYance Sackett's sister-in-law is kidnapped, he and Kin race northfrom Carolina to find her. They arrive at a superstitious town rifewith rumors--and learn that someone very powerful was behindDiana's disappearance. To bring the culprit to justice, one brothermust sail to the exotic West Indies. There, among pirates,cutthroats, and ruthless "businessmen," he will apply the skills helearned as a frontiersman to an unfamiliar world--a world where onefalse move means instant death.
Pride and Prejudice, which opens with one of the most famous sentences in English Literature, is an ironic novel of manners. In it the garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. With its wit, its social precision and, above all, its irresistible heroine, Pride and Prejudice has proved one of the most enduringly popular novels in the English language.
The Door, Margaret Atwood's first book of poetry since Morningin the Burned House, is a magnificent achievement. Here inpaperback for the first time, these fifty lucid, urgent poems rangein tone from lyric to ironic to mediative to prophetic, and insubject from the personal to the political, viewed in its broadestsense. They investigate the mysterious writing of poetry itself, aswell as the passage of time and our shared sense of mortality.Brave and compassionate, The Door interrogates the certainties thatwe build our lives on, and reminds us once again of MargaretAtwood's unique accomplishments as one of the finest and mostcelebrated writers of our time.
Sometimes when he didn't know he was being watched Meggie would look at him and try desperately to imprint his face upon her brain's core...And he would turn to find her watching him,a look in his eyes of haunted grief,a doomed look. She understood the implicit message,or thought she did;he must go, back to the Church and his duties.Never again with the same spirit,Perhaps, but more able to serve.For only those who have slipped and fallen know the vicissitudes of the way... 作者简介： Colleen McCullough was born in Wellington, New South Wales in 1937. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in hospitals in Sydney and the UK before settling into ten years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in the USA. In 1974 her first novel, Tim, was published, followed by the international bestseller The Thorn Birds in 1977. Colleen McCullough now lives with her husband on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in thewoods near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. During the two years spendthere, he began to write 'Walden', his most important work, achronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the mostinfluential books in Western literature.
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake', to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. Yet Wilde himself underestimated the consequences of his experiment, and its capacity to outrage the Victorian establishment. Its words returned to haunt him in his court appearances in 1895, and he later recalled the 'note of doom' which runs like 'a purple thread' through its carefully crafted prose.
There was a time when the world was sweeter.., when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister...Jamie, who was destined to show him the depths of the human heartland the joy and pain of living. From the internationally bestselling author Nicholas Sparks comes his most moving story yet... 作者简介： With over 43 million copies of his books in print, Nicholas Sparks is one of world's most beloved storytellers. His eleven novels include six #1 New Fork Times bestsellers, and all his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New Fork Times and international bestsellers and
Publié en 1950, cette célèbre chronique, à la couleurintensément tragique et au style souple et varié, doit son titre àun aphorisme de Vauvenargues qui définit l'?me forte comme étant"dominée par quelque passion altière et courageuse". Cette ?meforte, c'est avant tout celle de l'héro?ne, Thérèse, personnagestendhalien, à la fois ingénue et prédatrice déclarée. ? traversson récit se lit la puissance irréductible de la passion, quiéloigne du réel et fait vivre dans l'imaginaire. Aussi sa voixest-elle systématiquement contestée par une seconde narratrice,anonyme, sorte de "contre" en quête d'une autre vérité. Il enrésulte un système romanesque profondément original, qui détruit defa?on lancinante les récits successifs qui s'y déploient cette mise en péril permanente de l'existence même de l'histoirerappelle les procédés chers à Pirandello, qui propose le mêmesystème de vérités plurielles et antagonistes. Les ?mesfortes contribue ainsi sans doute à l'avènement de ce
