![]() ![]() Frédéric leaves for Paris, armed with a letter of recommendation from his neighbour M. It's a book about love, about passion but passion such as can exist nowadays-that is to say, inactive."įrédéric Moreau renews his acquaintance with a childhood friend, Deslauriers, who advises him to meet with Dambreuse, a rich Parisian banker. He wrote of the work in 1864: "I want to write the moral history of the men of my generation-or, more accurately, the history of their feelings. Background įlaubert based many of the protagonist's experiences including the romantic passion on his own life. The main character often gives himself over to romantic flights of fancy.Ĭonsidered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century, it was praised by contemporaries such as George Sand and Émile Zola, but criticised by Henry James. The novel's tone is by turns ironic and pessimistic it occasionally lampoons French society. ![]() It describes Moreau's love for an older woman based on the wife of the music publisher Maurice Schlesinger, who is portrayed in the book as Jacques Arnoux. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man named Frédéric Moreau at the time of the French Revolution of 1848 and the founding of the Second French Empire. Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert. ![]() L'Education sentimentale at French Wikisource ![]()
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She studied Arabic literature at Tishreen University ( Latakia). ![]() Samar Yazbek ( Arabic: سمر يزبك, born 1970 in Jableh, Syria) is a Syrian writer and journalist. 2016 Best Foreign Book award for “The crossing” (France)Ģ013 PEN-OXFAM Novib award for “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution” (The Netherlands)Ģ012 PEN Tucholsky award for “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution” (Sweden)Ģ012 PEN Pinter award for “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution” (UK)Ģ010 Selected in the “Beirut 39, Hay festival” selection of outstanding writers under 40 (Beirut)Ģ000 UNICEF, Best literary scenario award to “A falling sky” (TV script) ![]() ![]() ![]() Bronsky has a Dickensian flair for writing about miserable children - or, rather, the miseries of childhood. Everybody will have to learn to defend themselves from Max’s all-powerful grandmother.Īlina Bronsky, author of The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, writes of family dysfunction and machinations with a droll and biting humor, a tremendous ear for dialog, and a generous heart that is forgiving of human weakness. When a child is born to Nina that is the spitting image of Max’s grandfather, things come to a hilarious if dramatic head. While he may be a dolt in his grandmother’s eyes, Max is bright enough to notice that his stoic and taciturn grandfather has fallen hopelessly in love with their neighbor, Nina. ![]() His grandmother has been telling Max that he is an inept, clueless weakling since he was a child and she’d spend the day sitting in the back of his classroom to be sure he came to no harm. But she is not at all pleased with how things are run in Germany: the doctors and teachers are incompetent, the food is toxic, and the Germans are generally untrustworthy. 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Jack bends the truth to include an imaginary brother, Ernest, whom he uses as an excuse to escape from the country to party among urban socialites, while urbane Algernon uses a similar technique (Bunburying) that provides him opportunities for taking adventures in the country. Filled with witty Victorian aphorisms and Wilde’s own brand of wisdom, The Importance of Being Earnest tells the story of Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff who use clever deception and truth-bending to accommodate their social pursuits. The Importance of Being Earnest has proven to be Oscar Wilde’s most enduring-and endearing-play. ![]() ![]() ?With Waberi, the juxtapositions?surprising, provocative, and original?form a good part of the thrill themselves. In this compact volume, such ideas live side by side as a rosary for the treasures of Timbuktu, destroyed by Islamic extremists, and a poem dedicated to Edmond Jab?s, the Jewish writer and poet born in Cairo. His poems strongly condemn the civil wars that have plagued East Africa and advocate tolerance and peace. Waberi writes passionately about his country's landscape, drawing for us pictures of ?desert furrows of fire? and a ?yellow chameleon sky.? Waberi's poems take us to unexpected spaces?in exile, in the muezzin's call, and where morning dew is ?sucked up by the eye of the sun?black often, pink from time to time.? Translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Waberi's voice is intelligent, at times ironic, and always appealing. In his first collection of poetry, the critically acclaimed writer Abdourahman A. ![]() WABERI The Algerian Memoirs HENRI ALLEG Naming the Dawn ABDOURAHMAN A. ![]() Few of us have had the opportunity to visit Djibouti, the small crook of a country strategically located in the Horn of Africa, which makes The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper all the more seductive. The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper ABDOURAHMAN A. ![]() ![]() ![]() McKay's spirit, along with his dream-inspired imagery, lives on through Nytra, whose remarkable debut taps into the same unearthly environment with a similarly enchanting effect.The extraordinarily delicate and fine-lined art incorporates touches of manga aesthetic so that, like the story itself, it merges timeless narrative elements to craft something wonderfully innovative. Winsor McKay was a comics pioneer whose early experimentation with the form nearly predated the form itself. His cavalcade of dreamscapes is a rich and beguiling experience that deserves multiple immersions. ![]() ![]() The intricate flowerings and soulfully etched forest backgrounds of the art make the black-and-white pages sing as though they were drawn in a rainbow of colors.To stick the landing, Nytra's serene ending manages to be worthy of its glorious beginning. Or you could just enjoy the story on its own merits. It could be a great way to introduce kids to masterpieces of the past. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Raised in a strict Italian American home she was surrounded by love and pampered like a princess. However, young Christina Ciccone was not ready to leave this lifetime. The stars were aligned, the portals were ready and the chaos had begun. History meets mystery here in this spine tingling tale of the Supernatural where one very special young lady will uncover a dark secret about herself that had been hidden for many years and embarks on an unbelievable journey she had never signed up for. The mythology is portrayed in a very authentic way, the characters are adorable and the plot is well thought through. Most of all, though, this is a fast paced thriller and a great mystery to solve. ![]() Carey did a great job at bringing back those feelings and memories for me. The comparison between Rome then and now is something many visitors to Rome will be astonished by. I loved the novel for this wonderful setting that Carey brings to life splendidly. I learned Latin at school and been to Rome many times. While she travels in modern day Rome and visits ruins and temple sites it becomes clearer to the reader where the connection is. They are hard to understand and frightening. This is a great paranormal / mythological mystery with a blend of contemporary young adult fiction and excellently researched historical fiction.Ĭollege girl Christine has these repetitive dreams that take place in the times of old Rome. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With an imminent birth and a wedding, everyone is looking forward to some happier times. ![]() In the second book of the series, a mighty battle was fought and for the present the enemy is held at bay although a threat still exists. She also learns that a dark god, her grandfather, desires her powers and will do anything to feed on what she has. When Breen discovers this other world, she learns that she has powers of which she was unaware and has to learn how to use them. Breen Siobhan O’Ceallaigh is daughter of Fey, of man, of gods. It is a story which straddles two worlds with characters moving between the two with ease, yet with few in the world of man knowing about it. This storyline follows a young woman who finds herself in a world where man and Fey and gods exist. This is a series that promotes the idea that there are worlds other than the world of man. However, having already read the two previous books when they were first published, I still found it hard to place many of the large cast of players. Although a reading of the first two books enhances what is in this book, it can be read on its own because the prologue provides the basic outline of the story so far. The Choice is the third book in the Dragon Heart Legacy trilogy by Nora Roberts. ![]() ![]() Many reviewers have likened the Enchanted Barn to a fairy tale, where hard work, love, faith, and courage outweigh the forces of despair. The Enchanted Barn is one of the best performing books by author Grace Livingston. However, after ten years, her marriage got sour, and the two broke up. After the death of her husband, Grace Livingston got married to Flavius Josephus Lutz, who served as a church organist. The death of her first husband and lack of funds were Grace Livingston Hill’s greatest life motivators.īecause Grace Livingston Hill did not have any other source of income, she was prompted to write on a frequent basis. The first novel that Grace Livingston Hill wrote raised more than enough money for author Hill to go on a vacation to Chautauqua. ![]() Marcia’s sister was a renowned author who penned using her pseudonym name, Pansy. Both of her parents and her sister were writers as well. ![]() Grace Livingston Hill was born on April 16, 1865, in Wellsville, New York to Charles Montgomery, a Presbyterian minister, and Marcia MacDonald. Most of the characters that Grace Livingston Hill creates are normally Christian women or women who are raised within the confines of religion. As an accomplished author, Grace Hill has penned more than 100 novels and several other short stories. ![]() Grace Livingston Hill was a well-established 20th Century author, who wrote books using her real names and her pseudonym, Marcia Macdonald. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The bible for historians and archaeologists studying the final days of the Inca. the deeper wonder of the conquest and the deeper horror of its results” ( Washington Post). This authoritative, wide-ranging account, grounded in meticulous research and firsthand knowledge and told from the viewpoints of both protagonists, “keeps all the complex issues to the fore. The Conquest of the Incas is the definitive history of this civilization’s overthrow, from the invasion by Pizarro’s small gang of conquistadors and the Incas’ valiant attempts to expel the invaders to the destruction of the Inca realm, the oppression of its people, and the modern discoveries of Machu Picchu and the lost city of Vilcabamba. In 1532, the magnificent Inca empire was the last great civilization still isolated from the rest of humankind. It reads like the most skillful novel.” - Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature Combining rigorous historical research and profound analysis with stylistic elegance, this work allows the reader to appreciate the tragic and fabulous history of the Incan empire in all its richness and diversity. ![]() “Distinguished by an extraordinary empathy, a feeling of one’s way into the minds of the sixteenth-century Spaniards and Indians. ![]() |