D Marquis: 14 books

Since its inception in 1991, EUROMAT has been held each year on behalf of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), and alternates between general and topical prospectives. This year's theme, Advances in Mechanical Behaviour, Plasticity and Damage, was proposed by the Societe Francaise...

While the marquis de Sade was drafting The 120 Days of Sodom in the Bastille, another libertine marquis in a nearby cell was also writing a novel—one equally outrageous, full of sex and slander, and more revealing for what it had to say about the conditions of writers and writing itself. Yet Sade's...

Ce livre contient les ouvrages suivants classés par ordre alphabétique (noms de famille auteurs ) Le Grand Meaulnes [Alain-Fournier] Alcools [Guillaume Apollinaire] Les Diaboliques [Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly] Les Fleurs du mal [Charles Baudelaire] Un crime d'amour [Paul Bourget] Jane Eyre...

EXTRAIT:  C'est en présentant l'objet qui l'enchaîne, qu'un amant peut se flatter d'obtenir l'indulgence de ses fautes: daignez jeter les yeux sur Léonore, et vous y verrez à-la-fois la cause de mes torts, et la raison qui les excuse. Né dans...

EXTRAIT:  Nous soupâmes hier, Eugénie et moi, chez ta divinité, mon cher Valcour.... Que faisais-tu?... Est-ce jalousie?... Est-ce bouderie?... Est-ce crainte?... Ton absence fut pour nous une énigme, qu'Aline ne put ou ne voulut pas nous expliquer, et dont...

Ten of the greatest authors of all time present their great works in the short story genre. A great compilation of tales for all tastes with the  great geniuses of literature in his most acclaimed works.  This selection specially chosen by the literary critic  August Nemo, contains the following...

As a young but precocious lady, Therese always suspected that there were pleasures to be had of the flesh. So when she espies her teacher Father Dirrag manipulating fellow student Eradice's buttocks with the 'Holy Rod', before copulating with the devout girl in the most lascivious of ways, Therese's...

Extrait : "Le moment n'est pas venu où l'on pourra écrire l'histoire des manœuvres allemandes en France pendant la guerre, et cette étude n'a pas la prétention d'en tracer le tableau. Ce n'est qu'une carte pour en suivre les cheminements pendant que les révélations éclatent et que la répression...

First English translation of the book that introduced the realm of Hollow Earth • Explores the underground world of Agarttha, sometimes known as Shambhala, a realm that is spiritually and technologically advanced beyond our modern culture • One of the most influential works of 19th-century...

The Classical dictum that literature must have a dual function--to please and to instruct--is delightfully realized in this eighteenth century work that provocatively combines a teasing sensuality with philosophical concerns. The formal, witty language of the period and the anticlerical metaphysics of...

The U.S. government is facing the dual challenge of building its own interagency capacity for conducting stability operations while simultaneously building partner capacity (BPC) for stability operations. This study finds that although BPC and stability operations are receiving a good deal of attention...

This first-person narrative by Therese is the charming tale of an innocent's initiation into sexual happiness. Self-discovery in a convent leads her to her confessor, Father Dirrag, and she is soon launched upon the path of reason that convinces her that passion and love of the Deity are equal gifts...

Sie leben hinter streng abgeschlossenen Klostermauern, aber sie fühlen sich dort nicht wohl. Sie lieben das Leben und die Liebe, und sie wissen auch, wie sie sich die Freuden verschaffen können, nach denen sie sich so sehnen. Denn Liebe macht erfinderisch, und deshalb gelingt es den verliebten Nonnen,...

Die Französische Revolution war ein Experimentierfeld für die Neugestaltung der modernen Gesellschaft. Auf allen gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Ebenen wurden neue Praktiken ausprobiert und emanzipatorische Neuordnungsmodelle entworfen. Dieses "Musterbuch der Moderne" experimentierte...