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The situation of American literature is anomalous. It has no centre, or, if it have, it is like that of the sphere of Hermes. It is divided into many systems, each revolving round its several suns, and often presenting to the rest only the faint glimmer of a milk-and-water way. Our capital city, unlike London or Paris, is not a great central heart from which life and vigor radiate to the extremities, but resembles more an isolated umbilicus stuck down as near as may be to the centre of the land, and seeming rather to tell a legend of former usefulness than to serve any present need.

Ada was born with one foot on the other side. Having prayed her into existence, her parents Saul and Saachi struggle to deal with the volatile and contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl. When Ada comes of age and heads to college, the entities within her grow in power and agency. An...

Across the globe, the gospel is advancing through the work of Christians willing to risk everything in the hardest places. This book, written by a missions journalist as he traveled throughout twenty different countries, is filled with stories of Christians past and present whose examples of endurance, courage, sacrifice, and humility connect readers with God's unstoppable work across the world.

Maud Steiner, fille d'un père architecte Prix de Rome et d'une mère sculpteur, a grandi dans les années 60, à Saint-Germain-des-Prés dans la toute haute bourgeoisie et aristocratie française. Après le suicide de son frère Fabien, elle cherche durant quinze ans une explication à son geste et à sa propre incapacité de trouver le sommeil. Au cours d'un travail thérapeutique, des images surgissent et l'amnésie se dissipe.

In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston mines the strip and traces the story of Calvin’s reclusive creator to demonstrate how imagination―its possibilities, its opportunities, and ultimately its limitations―helped make Calvin and Hobbes North America’s last great comic strip.

هل سمعتم بالقصة التي ولدت بموت كاتبها؟ دائمًا ما تبدأ القصص بالعكس، تبدأ من الكاتب، فمهما حاول نسمع صوته يروي لنا قصته أكان على لسان راوٍ عليم، فنسمع صوت الكاتب في عقولنا غالبًا، أو أن يختار سرد أحداث حكايته على لسان شخصياته، لتكون تلك الشخوص أداته فيتحكم بها لنسمع صوته عبرها. هكذا جرت العادة؛ إلا في سلسلة روايات ميلينيوم أو بالأجزاء الثلاثة الأولى؛ حيث أن المؤلف "رب الرواية" قد مات قبل أن تخرج الشخصيات إلى العالم الحقيقي.

The ancient fable of two antagonistic spirits imprisoned in one body, equally powerful and having the complete mastery by turns of one man, that is to say, inhabited by both a devil and an angel seems to have been realized, if all we hear is true, in the character of the extraordinary man whose name we have written above. Our own impression of the nature of Edgar A. Poe, differs in some important degree, however, from that which has been generally conveyed in the notices of his death.

«الزّير سالم»، يتناول الكتاب سيرة عدي بن ربيعة التغلبي، الملقّب ب الزّير، أبو ليلى المهلهل. هو أحد فرسان قبيلة تغلب، التي كانت شمال شرق الجزيرة العربيّة، أطراف العراق والشّام. شاعرٌ، وأحد أبطال العرب في الجاهليّة.

George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian society. She was an extraordinary woman whose unconventional life meant that she was judged harshly by family, friends, and strangers. Eliot wanted to draw attention to the feelings and motivations of ordinary people, so that we...

Mademoiselle Julie de Lespinasse a écrit quelques unes des plus belles lettres de la langue française, dans ce style si fin de la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il n’y a qu’une chose qui résiste, c’est la passion et c’est celle de l’amour, car toutes les autres resteraient sans répliques. Il n’y a que l’amour-passion et la bienfaisance qui me paraissent valoir la peine de vivre.

Notre métier n'est pas de faire plaisir, non plus de faire du tort, il est de porter la plume dans la plaie. Cette maxime d'Albert Londres (1884-1932) résume l'idéal de ce grand reporter qui demeure une référence pour les journalistes contemporains. Depuis sa mort dans l'incendie du bateau qui le ramenait de Chine où il avait découvert un vaste complot… le Prix Albert Londres récompense les meilleurs journalistes francophones. Le présent enregistrement nous donne à entendre ses reportages du front français pour Le Petit Journal.

Irène Coran nous raconte, à travers un minutieux choix de textes de l'auteur, le « Je » de Colette.

«أحمد شوقي»؛ اسمٌ لا يحتاج إلى تعريفنا المتواضع؛ فهو قامة أدبية كبرى لسنا بصدد التعريف بها، إنما نعرض لصداقةٍ خاصة جمعت بينه وبين الأديب القدير «شكيب أرسلان».

Pour sa création, le festival « Autour de Mme de Staël » a invité le spectacle d'Alain Carré mettant en scène à partir de leur correspondance amoureuse, Benjamin Constant et Germaine de Staël. Elle naît à Paris en 1766. Il naît à Lausanne en 1767. Ils se rencontrent en 1794 et ne se quitteront plus jusqu'à la mort de Germaine en 1817. Dans une admiration réciproque, la plume à la main, ils partageront et façonneront les idées littéraires, philosophiques et politiques de cette époque mouvementée que fut l'après-révolution française, la Terreur, le Directoire, l'Empire.

I am now growing in years, and — since I understand that Shakespeare and Mr. Emmons are deceased — it is not impossible that I may even die. It has occurred to me, therefore, that I may as well retire from the field of Letters and repose upon my laurels. But I am ambitious of signalizing my abdication of the literary sceptre by some important bequest to posterity; and, perhaps, I cannot do a better thing than just pen for it an account of my earlier career.

Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories. These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy Dahl’s...

Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the greatest American memoirs - a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the early 20th century.

La Trinité, Johnny Hallyday, Les Play-Boys, les premiers galas, Jacques Lanzmann, Serge Gainsbourg, les escapades marocaines, Maurice Pialat, Claude Sautet, Jean-Luc Godard, Merde in France, les cigares, l'alcool, la Corse... À sa façon inimitable, Jacques Dutronc se souvient et raconte.

يسرد الكاتب وهو لواء سابق بوزارة الداخلية،يومياته المليئة بالأحداث المثيرة بالتحديات الكبيرة والتي تضمنت ماتعرض له فيها من قدرة على تحقيق انجازات تقارب...

Puto cáncer aborda en primera persona, literariamente y con humor el tránsito de una enfermedad que muchos ni se atreven a pronunciar. En palabras de la autora, se trata del diario íntimo de una paciente oncológica, que mezcla experiencias propias (ella superó un cáncer de intestino diagnosticado a los 35 años) y de otra gente a la que ha acompañado en el grupo de ayuda mutua Apostar a la vida.