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An authoritative, accessible overview of history's greatest literary figure
The great dramatist Ben Jonson wrote that William Shakespeare "was not of an age, but for all time." In the nearly four centuries since his death, Shakespeare's plays still have a tremendous impact on everything from the classroom to popular culture. Now you can have at your fingertips all the vital details on the most influential writer in the history of the English language-straight...
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¿Las arañas son insectos? ¿Qué diferencias hay entre los insectos y las arañas? ¿Las arañas pueden matar a un ser humano? ¿Cuál es la araña más grande? ¿Cuántas especies de arañas existen? ¿Todos los insectos viven en cualquier parte del planeta?
¡Las respuestas a estas y otras preguntas las encontrarás en las páginas de Mi gran libro de bichos y arañas!
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. El escritor, el pensador moral, el asceta, el conde, el terrateniente, el labriego y, por encima de todo, el hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, se ven reflejados en estos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, lo trataron o simplemente lo observaron durante años. Cada uno de ellos...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. El escritor, el pensador moral, el asceta, el conde, el terrateniente, el labriego y, por encima de todo, el hombre capaz de inspirar una sincera admiración en quien lo trató, se ven reflejados en estos testimonios de personas que lo conocieron, lo trataron o simplemente lo observaron durante años. Cada uno de ellos...
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La figura de Tolstói, compleja y polifacética, fascinó tanto a sus contemporáneos como fascina hoy a quien se acerca a sus obras. Los testimonios reunidos en este volumen nos descubren al escritor, asceta y pensador moral, pero también al melómano, cuya predilección por la más abstracta de las artes encierra algunas claves de su pensamiento sobre la creación y la vida. Cada uno de los textos reunidos refleja un aspecto de la personalidad...
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Daphne du Maurier's correspondence with Oriel Malet began in the early 1950s, after they met at a cocktail party in London. At least twenty years separated them: Oriel was a gauche young writer while Daphne was the famous, much-fêted author of bestselling novels including Jamaica Inn, My Cousin Rachel, and Rebecca.
The friendship flourished for thirty years, fed by the letters that arrived faithfully from Menabilly, the du Maurier house in Cornwall....
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Surprising personal glimpses of the eminent and enigmatic Australian poet
'I wonder sometimes if the literary pests are writing memoirs: "The last time I saw her she was pale and sick, but smiling bravely."' So, mused the dying Gwen Harwood in a letter written a few months, before she succumbed to cancer. Nearly two decades have passed, since she wrote that, but no memoir or biography of the loved and estimable poet, has yet appeared. While her poems...
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Des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien pour apporter leur soutien auprès des réfugiés depuis 2015 en Belgique.En septembre 2015 s'est créée la Plateforme Citoyenne de Soutien aux Réfugiés en réaction aux politiques belges peu enclines à trouver des solutions durables et humaines à la crise migratoire que traverse le pays ces dernières années. Depuis sa création, des milliers de personnes se sont relayées au quotidien...
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Kenneth Burke and His Circles consists of original papers focusing on the intellectual circles in which Burke participated during his long career. Instead of concentrating on Burke himself, as most recent scholarship has done, this book considers Burke as one participant in a host of important overlapping intellectual movements that took place over the course of the twentieth century.
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, art critic, and essayist who was among the first people to translate the work of Edgar Allen Poe. Baudelaire's wonderful poems are known for their masterful use of rhyme and rhythm, which together with their Romantic exoticism, inspired a whole generation of poets including Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé. This fantastic volume contains a carefully selected collection of...
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Salut l'acrobate! hommage à Jacques De Decker
Avec la participation de : Frank Andriat - Anatole Atlas - Frédéric Baal - Thilde Barboni - Jean-Baptiste Baronian - Alain Berenboom - Véronique Bergen - Chantal Boedts - Bernard Dan - Francis Dannemark - Jacques De Decker - Véronique De Keyser - Alain De Kuyssche - Luc Dellisse - Sara Dombret - Paul Emond - Vincent Engel - Rose-Marie François - Marc Guiot - Xavier Hanotte - Jack Keguenne - Marie...
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Howl and Other Poems, with nearly one million copies in print, City Lights presents the story of editing, publishing and defending Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem within a broader context of obscenity issues and censorship of literary works.
This collection begins with an introduction by publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who shares his memories of hearing Howl first read at the 6 Gallery, of his arrest and of the...
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Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821—1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extraordinary polyglot, he spoke 29 languages and gained extensive knowledge of many different cultures and their practices. His most famous works include English translations...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Real Jane Austen tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Paula Byrne's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things includes: * Historical context * Chapter-by-chapter overviews * Detailed timeline of...
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Hailed as one of the greatest western novelists of all time, French author Gustave Flaubert (1821—1880) first became famous for his debut novel "Madame Bovary" (1857), a seminal work of literary realism that resulted in Flaubert being put on trail for obscenity. Mentor of the celebrated writer Guy de Maupassant. Flaubert was highly influential and is generally considered to be leading exponent of literary realism in France. This volume contains...
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L'autre grand Jacques
Avec la participation de : Albert Ayguesparse - Thilde Barboni - Alain Berenboom - Véronique Bergen - Charles Bertin - Frans Boenders - Alain Bosquet - Roland Breucker - Jacques Carion - Jacques Cels - Hugo Claus - Gaston Compère - Jacques Crickillon - Irina De Decker - Eric de Kuyper - Paul Emond - Vincent Engel - Marie-Paule Eskénazi - Henrietta Forster - Jacqueline Harpman - Marianne Jeffmar - Philippe Jones - Marie Laberge...
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La poésie de la vie selon vingt-sept auteurs romands : leurs moments de bonheur offerts aux lecteurs
L'état du monde a toujours été chaotique, mais la période que nous vivons en ce moment l'est particulièrement. Le racisme et l'antisémitisme se développent comme de la mauvaise herbe, le fanatisme religieux sévit sous toutes les latitudes, les virus fleurissent sous les Tropiques, l'Afghanistan est devenu un vaste champ d'expériences militaires,...
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"Remembering Wordsworth" is a fantastic collection of essays and other assorted writings by various authors discussing the life and work of this seminal poet, not to be missed by lovers of poetry and those with an interest Wordsworth's life both public and private. Contents include: "William Wordsworth, by Hattie Tyng Griswold", "WM. Wordsworth, by Elbert Hubbard", "Wordsworth's Poetry, Delivered Extempore At Manchester, by George Macdonald", "In...
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In 1763, an 11-year-old boy named Thomas Chatterton began publishing mature works of poetry. Before long, he was fooling the literary world by passing his work off as that of a non-existent 15th-century poet named Thomas Rowley-which he did until unmasked by Horace Walpole. Brought up in poverty and without a father, he studied furiously and went on to try and earn a living from his writing. After impressing the likes of the Lord Mayor, William Beckford...
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"Remembering Keats" is a brand-new collection of poetry and essays by various authors dedicated to English Romantic poet John Keats (1795-1821). Together with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was a key figure during the second generation of Romantic poets most famous for such poems as "Sleep and Poetry", "Ode to a Nightingale", and "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer". Keats died at the age of 25 from tuberculosis, only four years after...
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