Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Es un canto lleno de dramatismo por las consecuencias de la guerra. Se destaca la crueldad de los vencedores, que, en su desmesura (hybris), no tienen piedad con los vencidos, ni respeto a los dioses, ya que profanan sus templos. Ni siquiera tienen consideración con los niños, manifestando así...

Have you ever been filled with sorrow so much that you have forgotten how to cry? She was betrayed by the one she loved most! She strove to please him and yet she was cast aside. She buried her own children and crushed sorrow beneath her feet. But perhaps all that sorrow was just preparing her for happiness. For truly with hardship comes ease.

“The Cradle of Mankind” is a dramatization of the recent finds of skeletons of a primate species closely related to “homo sapiens”. You might not want to meet these creatures wandering around your camp site at night. “Shakespeare in the Suburbs” is set in an adult literacy center in Johannesburg...

Uruguay, années 1970. À vingt ans, Teresa Monti fuit Montevideo et la brasserie familiale pour l’amour de Damaso, un télégraphiste avec lequel elle emménage dans un phare du bout du monde. Des années plus tard, dans l’étroite cuisine du phare de Cabo Polonio où Teresa fait...

Womanizer. Surgeon. Irresponsible. Privileged. For better or for worst, Michael had been them all in someone’s eyes. He just couldn’t figure out who he thought he was.Michael Mason III is a promising young cardiac surgeon with an unquenchable passion that leads him into the arms of one...

Trézenik déclare dans sa dédicace qu'il désire offrir des histoires, « écrites dans la seule préoccupation de présenter aux lecteurs quelques notations sur les gens et les choses de (sa) chère petite province ». Il plante le décor de huit nouvelles aux environs de Rémalard, dans...

Ernest and Bo Dean are wood working geniuses who embark on their latest next big wood project. With a backwoods approach to life and the simpler life, they take you on their latest effort to stay known as the Michelangelos of their craft. This is a story told in the vernacular of the...

“Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf was first published on 14th of May 1925. It is one of the most prominent works of Virginia Woolf.The book describes a day in the life of the title character, Mrs. Dalloway. Her full name is Clarissa Dalloway. She happens to be a fictional woman living in...

La route des petits matins relate le parcours d'un réfugié de culture sino-vietnamienne après la chute de Saigon. Écrit comme une longue lettre d'amour, le roman est en fait une ode au courage, à la solidarité, à la détermination et à la résilience de ceux qui ont fui, « le cœur dans la gorge,...

THE TIME-LIFE CONSPIRACY  an OMNIBUS comprising  AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS  novel  A CRIME OF INFLUENCE  screenplay  PIVOT  radio script  It didn’t just happen that soundbite television came to trivialize policy.  Someone willed it. A very surprising someone.  With the...

Après avoir publié Le Seigneur de l’oreille en 2003, Vania Jimenez nous propose un deuxième roman où le souvenir tient lieu de personnage. Par un simple hasard, un homme au mitan de sa vie renoue avec un passé qui lui avait jusqu’ici échappé. Son histoire s’inscrit dans la foulée de...

Louisa May Alcott (1832 1888) needs little introduction, as she is one of the most famous American female authors, whose most famous work is Little Women. She also served as a nurse for six weeks during the Civil War at Union Hospital in Georgetown. Her letters were compiled to create Hospital Sketches....

Back Bay - Second Place PGP Best Short Story 2015 A short story. The Back Bay only has one family living there. She can't keep going by herself. With her grandfather getting too old to help, it's time to move on. A discovery while gathering seaweed and limpets gives her food for thought.

“Kalu picked up the flute by his side and started to play. The sound was deep and full, as if he were translating his thoughts into music. It stayed in the air like dust floating on the sunlight, and each note held the promise of something not quite spoken but maybe heard in the darkness of a dream.” Abandoned...