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Written in 1950, Eugene Ionesco's first play, The Bald Soprano, was a seminal work of Absurdist theatre. Today, it is celebrated around the world as a modern classic for its imagination and sui generis theatricality. A hilarious parody of English manners and a striking statement on the alienation of modern life, it was inspired by the strange dialogues Ionesco encountered in foreign language phrase books.
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HOW HURTFUL CAN A TRANSFORMATION BE? "Dysphoria" is a poignant collection of eighty poems that traverse the emotional landscape of personal transformation.Amidst the turmoil of loss and rebirth, the author bids farewell to the old self, embracing the journey of self-discovery with raw vulnerability and resilience.Through the veil of grief, each verse becomes a testament to the human spirit's capacity to evolve, to shed its former skin and emerge anew.With...
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"A Window in at a Moment in Time" is a collection of poems written almost thirty years ago when Francois was a teenager. These poems were influenced by Francois' experiences as a teenager including his arising awareness of the need for conservation and the damage we as humanity were causing even then.Closer to home, some poems reflect his opinions which were more socially influenced by subjects that were discussed by teenagers at the time and which...
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Celebrating Germany with Poetry belongs to the Celebrating Nations Book Series by Walter the Educator. Collect them all at WaltertheEducator.com. Creating a poetry book celebrating the nation of Germany serves as a means to explore and showcase the rich cultural heritage, history, and the vibrant spirit of the country. It can also be a way to acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of Germany to the world in various fields such as literature,...
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This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution. Among the seventeen bold and inventive comic writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Valentin Katayev, and Yuri Kazakov.
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A chaque édition son empreinte et son partage.En 2020, les poètes auront aussi écrit sur la notion de différence. La Covid-19 a-t-elle influencé de quelque manière que ce soit le ressenti et une expressivité poétique sous la contrainte d'un adverbe imposé dans le premier vers ? Après "D'une rive à une autre" (édition 2018) et "Transcendance" (édition 2019), le recueil des nominés et lauréats "La Différence - Poésie 2020" nous ramène...
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When I was young I used to painstakingly collect postcards and albums with reproductions of Van Gogh's paintings, which were rare in the Soviet Union. Nowadays the Internet and big size monitors give you possibility to endlessly enjoy master's canvases, and see details you never paid attention to before. And so I saw that the majority of the artist's works painted not long before his death started to depict the endless movement of the matter, invisible...
8) Moulin Rouge
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Henri de Toulouse-Latrec experienced a life of deformity and disappointment. He left an artistic legacy beyond praise or price. Though his friends were the great personages of his time, he was perpetually lonely. Though educated and witty his life was a continual and desperate search for romantic love and happiness.
Basis for the 1952 film starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nominated for 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor,...
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The biography, the philosophy, and some of the most influential works of the infamous French writer who shocked the world with his erotic novel, Justine.
No other writer has so scandalized proper society as the Marquis de Sade, but despite the deliberate destruction of over three-quarters of his work, Sade remains a major figure in the history of ideas. His influence on some of the greatest minds of the last century-from Baudelaire and Swinburne...
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Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic....
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History Encounters unearths the greatest stories with the major events from The Berlin Wall to expand reader horizons for readers to be best informed. The Berlin Wall was the concrete manifestation of the Iron Curtain, which signified the profound ideological difference between the capitalist, democratic Western powers and the socialist, communist Soviet Union. After WWII ended, the Allied Powers carved up defeated Germany into four blocks. They did...
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From all over Europe-Scotland to the Mediterranean, Hungary to Cornwall-Elisabeth Luard has collected descriptions of traditional feasts and festivals, many of which she has experienced firsthand, and hundreds of recipes for the dishes appropriate to them. As well as being a unique and wonderfully readable cookbook, Seasonal European Dishes (previously published as European Festival Food) is written with the scrupulous attention to detail and authenticity...
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En el fondo, el libro que vas a leer es una celebración. La de estar aquí, la suerte de existir. Y de la enigmática carambola de poder expresarlo. Este libro de poesías selecciona las mejores piezas de Poemas 3,14 (2014), Canciones de Hierro (2016) y Poesías, Amor y Moscas (2018), libros que a su vez sufrieron descartes. Este cielo y todas estas calles (2022) queda fuera de la selección y viaja por su cuenta. Algunas de las poesías que componen...
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Ce livre, intitulé "Les éclats de bonheur - la magie des sourires contagieux des enfants / פְּצָעִים שֶׁל שִׂמְחָה - קֶסֶם שְׂמֵי חֶיְיָם וּצְחֻקֵי יְלָדִים", est une collection de poèmes en français et en hébreu célébrant l'innocence, la beauté et l'inspiration que les enfants apportent à nos vies. Chaque poème explore un aspect différent de l'enfance, de la pureté des cœurs à...
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Fabio Pusterla is a prolific poet, essayist, and translator, most notably of the work of Philippe Jaccottet. His honors include the Swiss Schiller Prize, the Gottfried Keller-Preis, and the Premio Napoli for lifetime achievement. Will Schutt is the author of Westerly, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, and translator of My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, among other works from Italian. For his translations...
16) Les Miserables
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Com a França do século XIX como pano de fundo, «Os Miseráveis» conta uma apaixonante história de sonhos desfeitos, de um amor não correspondido, paixão, sacrifício e redenção, num testemunho intemporal da sobrevivência do espírito humano.
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La esclava del Negro Ponto es una obra dramática escrita por Luciano Francisco de Comella, un autor español que vivió entre los siglos XVIII-XIX, conocido por sus dramas y comedias. La trama de esta obra particular se ubica en una isla del Negro Ponto, un término que se refiere al Mar Negro en la antigüedad.
La isla, en el contexto de la obra, es representada como un antiguo emporio cristiano que ha sido ocupado por una versión islamizada de...
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One of the all-time great cookbooks receives a lavish update and remains an essential resource and inspiration for cooks of all levels. One of the greatest cookbooks of all time, The Constance Spry Cookery Book remains an essential kitchen bible: astonishingly informative, supremely practical, and constantly at-hand for countless home cooks and future top chefs for over fifty years. With over a thousand pages filled with recipes, cooking history,...
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Poems Written Abroad is the first publication of the earliest collection of poetry by the famous poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, and radical, Sir Stephen Spender (1909-1995). Spender wrote and compiled this manuscript in 1927, when he was living in Nantes and Lausanne. In tone and diction, Spender's poems range from creatively traditional to unexpectedly innovative. They reflect his reading in Shakespeare and French poetry, as well as...
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It is a few weeks before Christmas and everyone except Catherine seems to be gearing up for the big day with excitement. Catherine is a single mum, struggling to bring up her five year old daughter, she has little time for romance, and when she learns she has lost her job and her flat is deemed unliveable, she wonders just what else life is about to fling at her. Where or to whom can she turn to for help? Kismet in the shape of handsome, bachelor,...
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