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Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of...

Los momentos posteriores a la meditación diaria, los ratos de esparcimiento en el hogar, las horas de espera en aeropuertos y en vuelos al trasladarme de un país a otro, son espacios para reflexionar, rememorar, evaluar, proyec- tar o pasar revista de mis actos y de mis pensamientos... Y, muy particularmente,...

Jer Johns had just spent the last year-and-a-half traveling around the country. He had stayed in over 70 different homes in over 50 cites with hundreds of strangers that would become friends. After arriving in San Francisco in March of 2015, He decided that it was time for a new experience. He challenged...

Extrait :  Quelque part dans l’État de Nevada, il existe une femme à qui j’ai menti sans vergogne pendant deux heures d’affilée.  Je ne cherche point ici à faire mes excuses, loin de là ! Je désire seulement m’expliquer. Hélas, je...

Extrait : De la ſituation du Corps, & de la poſition des Mains. COMME IL EST NECESSAIRE pour arriver à la perfection des exercices dans leſquels on veut réüſſir, de joindre autant qu’il eſt poſſible la bonne grace à l’habileté,...

Ceux qui, ces derniers temps, ont jugé Rembrandt l’ont mesuré à l’aune de leur critique exacte, intelligente et renseignée. Ils se sont appliqués à détailler sa vie année par année, joie par joie, deuil par deuil, malheur par malheur. Il en est résulté que nous le connaissons par le...

L’auteur de ce livret n’a pas l’ambition de présenter, en quelques dizaines de pages, une biographie exhaustive de Jean-François Champollion – d’ailleurs publiée en 2001, et rééditée en 2016, en livre papier aux Éditions Segnat (Les Frères Champollion) ; il entend, plus simplement,...

A cultural icon who defined the twentieth-century American landscape, Frank Lloyd Wright has been studied from what seems to be every possible angle. While many books focus on his works, torrid personal life, or both, few solely consider his professional persona, as a man enmeshed in a web of prominent...

La “Diva Turca” commence sa vie sur les rives du Bosphore pour connaître un formidable succès à Naples puis à La Scala de Milan avant de conquérir les grandes scènes lyriques internationales, sous les baguettes de Toscanini, Serafin, Simonetto, Gui, Gavanezzi,...

And anyone knows that the best way to make money is to take what you love and turn it into a business. Well, congratulations. You have taken the first step towards making money doing what you love: Taking digital photos. Not many people know that you can make a good living just by selling photos over...

Frederick Keppel takes a brief look at the “Grand Style” art of Joshua Reynolds, the influential British portrait painter of the late 18th century.

At the age of fourteen, a young man in Waveland, Indiana, had taken over the family farm after the death of his father. Now responsible for taking care of his widowed mother and supporting his four brothers, he took up the reins on the plow to begin preparing the field for planting. Family legend...

Published in 1996, Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma was the first in-depth study of the artist's life. It has not been superseded. In this substantially revised, updated edition - to coincide with the artist's centenary, which will be celebrated from autumn 2008 through summer 2009 - Peppiatt...

Chelsea Handler is an American stand-up comedian, actress, author, and late night cable talk show host.   Chelsea Handler grew up in New Jersey, and has performed nationwide as a stand-up comedian. Handler appeared as a regular in Oxygen's Girls Behaving Badly and acted in other...