*Dans la nuit du 8 octobre 1871, un terrible incendie ravage Chicago, semant la panique dans la ville. Et pourtant, du chaos, va naรฎtre le fragile miracle de l'amour...* Femme de chambre d'une riche hรฉritiรจre, Kathleen assiste ร un bal prestigieux oรน avec la complicitรฉ de sa maitresse, elle se fait
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Les Rougon-Macquart : histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le second Empire. VII (1877)
Francoforte, 1963. In una gelida domenica d'Avvento, Eva Bruhns, giovane interprete dal polacco, riceve una inattesa telefonata dalla sua agenzia. In un ufficio al centro della cittร , dove pare stiano approntando le carte per un processo, hanno urgente bisogno di qualcuno che traduca dal polacco, do
SUMMARY: The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earni
SUMMARY: The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris. At the center of the story stands Gervaise, who starts her own laundry and for a time makes a success of it. But her husband soon squanders her earni
Regarded by critics as one of the highest pinnacles of achievement in Emile Zola's literary career, L'Assommoir (best translated as "the cheap liquor store") offers an unflinching look at alcoholism among the working class in nineteenth-century France. Part of a larger, 20-volume story cycle that sp
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รmilien Dombe s'engage comme chef de culture dans une ferme du hameau de Rieux qui domine une vallรฉe livrรฉe aux ronces et aux รฉpines. On y raconte une รฉtrange lรฉgende, prรฉtexte aux intrigues oรน les intรฉrรชts se mรชlent aux passions amoureuses : une jeune fille inconnue apparaรฎtrait de temps ร autre da
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1891 Les Rougon-Macquart : histoire naturelle et sociale d'une famille sous le second Empire. XVIII
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LโEsegesi di Philip K. Dick รจ lโultimo lavoro di un autore che ha dedicato la vita a mettere in discussione la natura della realtร e la sua percezione, la malleabilitร dello spazio e del tempo, il rapporto tra lโumano e il divino. Nel 1974, giร noto ai lettori per opere come La svastica sul sole, Ub
**Vincitore nel 2015 dellโInternational Prize for Arabic Fiction, il piรน importante premio letterario nel mondo arabo, *LโItaliano* racconta una storia emblematica del naufragio delle Primavere arabe.** In unโepoca di grandi tensioni e cambiamenti politici e sociali, nella Tunisia a cavallo tra gli
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Les quatorze nouvelles de L'Immobilier traitent toutes d'un mรชme sujet : la quรชte d'un logement comme fil conducteur et ressort dramatique. Tous les cas de figures possibles servent de prรฉtexte ร rebondissement : sous-location, รฉchange d'appart, cohabitation ร l'รฉtroit, endettement ร long terme, tro
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After being reported as dead in a German POW camp, Jack Chesley returns to L.A. in 1947 very much alive, only to discover that his wife is dead--and her twin sister insists that it wasn't an accident like the cops said. They set out to find her killer, a journey that takes them from the boozy back c
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