Michel: 4109 books

Nicholas, heir to the Duke of Rutland, has been kidnapped. Imprisoned aboard a Portuguese slaver, Nicholas learns that his family members have been either captured or slain—but a mysterious woman allays his despair. Fellow prisoner Alexandra has overheard that his family is safe. But can...

For too long I accepted the herd’s definition of perfection. For too long I ate quickly, and the food wasn’t real. For too long I ignored the call out my window. I was trying to be just like everyone else, after all.

»Ich glaube an die künftige Auflösung dieser scheinbar so gegensätzlichen Zustände von Traum und Wirklichkeit in einer Art absoluter Realität, wenn man so sagen kann: Surrealität.« So schrieb 1924 André Breton, der Kopf der Surrealisten. Traum und Wirklichkeit beschäftigen auch die hier...

« — Je pense qu’Ann aimerait retourner à l’école cette année, avoua-t-elle en baissant un peu la voix.— Tu m’as dit qu’elle sait lire et écrire, c’est ben assez.— Elle voudrait avoir son diplôme, insista Camille.— Pourquoi ? dit Liam sèchement.— Une femme qui en sait trop...

À la fin du tome I, après une attaque subite, on apprend que Baptiste est entre la vie et la mort. Pour la famille Beauchemin, c’est un drame épouvantable. Qu’arrivera-t-il?Le deuxième tome s’ouvre en 1871, quatre mois après la fin du premier. Baptiste est toujours vivant, mais extrêmement...

Biogea is a mixture of poetry, philosophy, science, and biography exemplary of the style that has made Michel Serres one of the most extraordinary thinkers of his age. His philosophical and poetic inquiry sings in praise of earth and life, what he names singularly as Biogea. In these times when species...

«Incontrate una bella ragazza sul ciglio di una scogliera? Non tendetele la mano! Potrebbero credere che l’avete spinta». È quello che succede a Jamal Salaoui, trentenne sportivo con una protesi di carbonio al posto della gamba sinistra, che ciò nonostante si allena ogni giorno correndo su...

A regény hőse igazi Houellebecq-figura: antihős, akinek ezúttal a nevét se tudjuk. Magányos kívülálló, aki okosan és kegyetlenül lát rá a társadalom és az emberi érintkezések visszáságaira, hazugságaira. Informatikusként tisztában van a nyilvánosság és a média működésével....

Franciaország kedvenc botrányhősei, Michel Houellebecq író és Bernard-Henri Lévy filozófus 2008. januártól júliusig leveleztek egymással. Huszonnyolc levelet váltottak, amelyekben megtárgyalták, hogyan próbálják elviselni és feldolgozni a rájuk zúduló médiaössztüzet, és hogyan...

A worldwide phenomenon and the most important French novelist since Camus, Michel Houellebecq now delivers his magnum opus–a tale of our present circumstances told from the future, when humanity as we know it has vanished. Surprisingly poignant, philosophically compelling, and occasionally...

Selected poems from the critically acclaimed author of Submission and The Elementary Particles A shimmering selection of poems chosen from four collections of one of France’s most exciting authors, Unreconciled shines a fresh light on Michel Houellebecq and reveals the radical singularity...

In Michel Tremblay’s classic play about identity in crisis, Claude leaves the conformity of small-town Quebec to realize a new life and a new persona among the drag queens and prostitutes of Montreal’s seedy “Main” – the boulevard that marks the division of the city’s anglophone and francophone...

seeker after knowledge in the Himalayas. An old man whose kind secretly runs the world. A historian with an unusual source of knowledge about things past. A very ... special child. These are the characters that come to life in the four short stories in this collection. Thou art that. All...

In 1971, at a time of enormous political and social change, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by the Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate the question: is there an 'innate' human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? Their...