Emile: 1072 books

According to Wikipedia: "Émile Gaboriau (November 9, 1832 September 28, 1873) was a French writer, novelist, journalist, and a pioneer of detective fiction... after publishing some novels and miscellaneous writings, found his real gift in L'Affaire Lerouge (1866). The book, which was Gaboriau's...

A good story full of greed, deceit, jealousy, despair, attempted assassination, true love and perseverance, and finally revenge. A well-told story worthy of a read.

This unique nineteenth-century novel, originally published in French, is the result of a fascinating literary experiment. It takes the form of an epistolary dialogue of letters exchanged among four characters, each of which is an alter ego of one of the book's four authors.

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BnF collection ebooks - "— Parce que je ne veux pas ! — Mais pourquoi ne veux-tu pas ? — Parce que je ne veux pas. — Ma foi ! voilà un raisonnement auquel je ne trouve rien à répliquer ! Et une voix, pleine de rires, se fit entendre sur un ton de douce moquerie. — Alors, tu ne veux...

He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari’s words, “instructed in all such things as children are usually taught before they choose a calling.” However, he refused to give his attention to reading, writing and accounts, continues Vasari, so that his father,...

Knowledge and understanding of vascular disease, particularly atherosclerosis, continue to expand across disciplines, as do diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for treatment of vascular disorders. This manual offers a consistent "how to" approach that places specific emphasis on management....

"It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule. Many more people will be tempted to praise the glory of our soldiers. But, if the incidents of conquered Belgium's life are not recorded in good time, they might escape notice. People might forget that, besides the 150,000...

Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. “The Division of Labor in Society”, published in 1893, was his first...

Het aes triplex (drievoudig koper) waarmede de dichter der oudheid het hart van den eersten zeevaarder ompantserd achtte, schijnt nog slechts een onvoldoende bescherming, vergeleken bij de wapenrusting, waarmede zich de eerste conquistadores wel mochten hebben omgord, toen zij het waagden, zich blindelings...

Mode und Kleidung als vielschichtiges Mittel des Selbstausdrucks und der Kommunikation fasziniert Schriftsteller, Philosophen und Soziologen gleichermaßen. Der Band versammelt 45 essentielle Schriften vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, jeweils kenntnisreich eingeleitet von Barbara Vinken. Schon immer...

Borel was born the son of Honoré, a pastor, and Emilie Teissié-Solier Borel, in the French town of Saint-Affrique on January 7, 1871. His was a world heavily influenced by the recent humiliation of the Franco-Prussian War, and on a personal level, Borel, as the younger brother of two sisters, had...

The French Sociologist Émile Durkheim is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology. Principle to the work of Durkheim was his concern with regard to how modernity was effecting traditional social and religious institutions, more specifically with how...