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In 1908 Sara Harrison Shea was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day, Ruthie lives in Sara's farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister, Fawn. When Ruthie wakes up one morning to find that Alice has vanished without a trace, she is startled to find a copy of Sara Harrison Shea's diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother's bedroom. Ruthie is not...
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This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1884 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated...
4) Isabelle
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Gérard Lacase raconte un séjour qu'il fit à la Quartfourche afin de consulter des documents qui devaient l'aider à terminer sa thèse sur « la chronologie des sermons de Bossuet ». Mais les papiers que lui fournit M. Floche, qui l'accueille à la Quartfourche, l'intéressent bien moins qu'un portrait dont il tombe amoureux : celui d'Isabelle.
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Son Excellence Eugène Rougon est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en 1876, sixième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Dans cet ouvrage, selon ses propres termes, Zola pénètre les « coulisses politiques » du Second Empire. Les personnages sont des proches du pouvoir : ministres, députés, hauts fonctionnaires. L'action se déroule de 1856 à 1861.
Eugène Rougon est le fils aîné de Pierre et Félicité Rougon. Dans les romans La Fortune...
6) L'assommoir
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L'Assommoir est un roman d'Émile Zola publié en feuilleton dès 1876 dans Le Bien public, puis dans La République des Lettres, avant sa sortie en livre en 1877 chez l'éditeur Georges Charpentier. C'est le septième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. L'ouvrage est totalement consacré au monde ouvrier et, selon Zola, c'est « le premier roman sur le peuple, qui ne mente pas et qui ait l'odeur du peuple ». L'écrivain y restitue la langue...
7) In Morocco
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The great American novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937) here gives us her colorful and textured travel memoir "In Morroco" (1920). Still a deeply energized work, Wharton imbues the reader with a sense of wonder that served as the impetus for her travels into this exotic Northern African land. Edith Wharton made her name as a novelist closely associated with the prolific Henry James. Their personal and literary kinship may be seen in much of her long...
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La Faute de l'abbé Mouret est un roman d'Émile Zola paru en 1875, le cinquième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Faisant suite à La Conquête de Plassans, c'est le second ouvrage de la série qui traite du catholicisme. Le thème en est la vie d'un prêtre déchiré entre sa vocation religieuse et l'amour d'une femme.
Le héros, Serge Mouret, est le fils de François et de Marthe Mouret, personnages principaux du précédent roman. Ordonné...
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Ce récit délibérément décousu croise et oppose intrigues et personnages. Il y a d'abord les atermoiements et les revirements de Julius de Baraglioul, catholique traditionnel, et de son beau-frère, Anthime Armand-Dubois, libre penseur. Il y a la bande des escrocs qui répandent la rumeur selon laquelle le pape serait séquestré dans les caves du Vatican. Mais, surtout, il y a le jeune Lafcadio, prisonnier de sa mystique de l'acte gratuit. Cette...
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"In this new holiday-themed novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mistletoe Promise and The Walk, a man receives the best Christmas present he could ask for: the chance to re-write the past. Jason Chercher is not doing well in love or life. Just two weeks after his wife leaves him he receives a phone call that his estranged mother has passed away, days before Christmas--leaving her home and all her belongings to him. Frankly,...
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The classic story of Captain Ahab and his obsession with a huge whale, Moby Dick. The whale caused the loss of Ahab's leg years before, leaving Ahab so crazed by his desire to kill the whale that he is prepared to sacrifice his life, the lives of his crew members, and even his ship to find revenge.
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Extrait : "En compagnie du chat, j'ai travaillé tout le jour dans la solitude de mon palais de la Rotonde que j'avais déserté hier. A l'heure o le soleil rouge du soir s'enfonce derrière le Lac des Lotus, mes deux serviteurs, comme d'habitude, viennent me chercher. Mais, le Pont de Marbre franchi, nous passons cette fois sans nous arrête devant la brèche qui mène à mon fragile palais du Nord."
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Published posthumously in 1766, A Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift is a complete collection consisting of sixty-five letters he wrote to Esther Johnson, whom he bestowed the name of Stella. It is, known that Stella is the name Swift gave to Esther Johnson. They met when she was only eight years old and knew each other for the entirety of the rest of their lives. Swift was first a mentor to young Esther. He taught her to read and write then introduced...
14) Old bones
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"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...
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