Extrait : "Les noms que j'ai réunis dans le groupe de moralistes dont nous allons nous occuper ne figurent pas, à l'exception de Vauvenargues, au premier rang des écrivains du XVIIIe siècle, et les doctrines morales et politiques de la plupart de ces auteurs sont loin d'appartenir à la meilleure philosophie : elles sont au contraire, si j'ose parler ainsi, de qualité très inférieure.
In this eagerly awaited follow-up to his international bestsellers Anam Cara and Eternal Echoes, John O'Donohue turns his attention to the subject of beauty - the divine beauty that calls the imagination and awakens all that is noble in the human heart.
Hizkuntza atzerritar batetik euskarara "itzuliz usu begiak" egiten dute lan itzultzaileek, hizkuntza biziberrituz gai eta aire orotarikoez, sorkuntza aberastuz, euskarak inoiz imajinatu ez dituen egoerak eta munduak izendatuz, sistema literarioa indartuz.
A much-loved classic of nature writing from environmentalist and the author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin, Wildwood is an exploration of the element wood in nature, our culture and our lives.
Extrait : "L'Empereur ordonnait à tous ceux qui avaient une position dans l'État de beaucoup recevoir, et surtout d'inviter les étrangers de distinction.
'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?
Drawing on OBriens experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happensfirst written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers Conference and the US Air Force Academyoffer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, afraid and hopeful, we begin to tell them.
The heartbreaking final volume in Sergio Pitol's groundbreaking memoir-essay-fiction-hybrid Trilogy of Memory, which won him the prestigious Cervantes Prize, finds Pitol boldly and passionately weaving fiction and autobiography together to tell of his life lived through the written word as a way to stave off the advancement of a degenerative neurological condition causing him to lose the use of language.
Thank You for Not Reading is a biting critique of book publishing: agents, subagents, and scouts, supermarket-like bookstores, Joan Collins, book fairs that have little to do with books, authors promoted because of sex appeal instead of merit, and editors trying to look like writers by having their photograph taken against a background of bookshelves.
WITHOUT SAINTS is a breathtaking journey to rediscover hope between the ruins: Poet Christopher Locke was baptized by Pentecostals, absolved by punk rock, and nearly consumed by narcotics.
Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this wildly funny and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations.
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