Jean: 14802 books

‘Sticking closely to the known facts, Jean Teulé’s novelisation offers no easy explanations for what happened but the transformation from rural idyll to hell on earth is terrifyingly convincing.’ Financial Times A true story. Tuesday 16 August 1870, Alain de Monéys, makes his way to...

As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined...

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English:...

‘No matter how long I may look at an image, I shall never find anything in it but what I put there. It is in this fact that we find the distinction between an image and a perception.' - Jean-Paul Sartre L’Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in...

The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Molière and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is...

This is the second volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken in the three hundred years since Racine’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered...

Ce double volume des Cahiers de Jean Giraudoux, consacré à Ondine, contient notamment des inédits de Paul Valéry : « Lettre à Jean Giraudoux, sur Simon le Pathétique », de Jean Giraudoux : « Lettre à une jeune fille qui devrait écrire », un témoignage de Louis Jouvet : « La décoration d'Ondine », ainsi que des essais et des études.

Sous ce titre un peu énigmatique, c'est un portrait moral en profondeur du " bonhomme " La Fontaine que nous présente Jean Giraudoux. Ces " cinq tentations " furent celle de la vie provinciale et bourgeoise du maître des Eaux et Forêts de Château-Thierry ; celle des femmes,...

On connaît le merveilleux livre que composa Jean Giraudoux, sous le titre Littérature, en réunissant un certain nombre d'essais : un de ces volumes qui traversent le temps. Ce receuil pourrait être intitulé Littérature II si n'y voisianient, à côté des réflexions sur Proust ou Claudel, Labraud...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Novels Emile, or On Education New Heloise (An Excerpt) Political Writings The Social Contract Discourse on the Origin of Inequality...

First published in 1989 Philip Larkin, the Marvell Press, and Me is the story of how this small publishing company became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Larkin's The Less Deceived. The...

Nous livrons des bruits récoltés en passant au tamis la clameur du monde. Bruits de l’enfance, bruits de la vie, bruits de la mort, bruits des pas, bruits des rêves, bruits des langues, bruits du désir, bruits du silence, bruits du soleil… Voix fragiles, peuplées de rivières, de vies cheminant...

No one wants to slowly drool their way into dementia, forgetful and forgotten by those they have loved. Never mind death or taxes—what people fear most is entering a nursing home. But that’s exactly where Jean Misura plunked herself down to live. Where else could she find good-natured teasing over...