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While vacationing at a spa, a sculptor, who's unhappily married, encounters a former model whose love he rejected in favor of a more successful career. As the pair reconnects, they gradually rekindle their relationship, leading them down a dark and dangerous path.
Arnold Rubek is a famous and wealthy sculptor who feels trapped in a mundane marriage. He and his wife Maia are visiting a spa, when he stumbles across a former model named Irena. She's...
22) L'Art naïf
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L'art naïf connaît ses premiers succès à la fin du XIXe siècle. Des « peintres du dimanche » développent avec spontanéité et simplicité une forme d'expression qui, jusqu'alors, avait peu intéressé les artistes et les critiques d'art. Influencée par les arts primitifs, la peinture naïve se distingue par la précision de ses traits, la vivacité et la gaieté de ses couleurs, ainsi que ses formes brutes, souvent élémentaires. L'art...
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All's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All's Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. "The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together, our virtues would be proud...
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Un mot s'impose sur la présente édition du Comte de Monte-Cristo. Il s'agit d'une version abrégée d'environ un cinquième par
rapport au texte intégral. L'abréviation a été réfl échie de manière à respecter la complexité de l'intrigue et la dimension littéraire de l'ouvrage. A part les suppressions, il n'y a aucun changement
signifi catif dans le texte original. Les suppressions concernent uniquement les répétitions et les résumés...
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Collected together here is a selection of six plays by Norway's most famous playwright, arguably one the greatest playwrights of all-time, Henrik Ibsen. In the first play of the volume, "Pillars of Society", Ibsen relates the story of Karsten Bernick, whose ambitious plan to connect his small coastal town by railway is jeopardized when his past comes back to haunt him. In the second play, "A Doll's House", we have the story of Nora Helmer, who has...
26) Rosmersholm
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Johannes Rosmer is a respected member of a conservative community, who's criticized for his close friendship with a young woman following his wife's untimely death. Johannes' unconventional living situation, paired with his growing liberal beliefs, becomes a cause for concern.
A year after his wife Beata's suicide, Johannes Rosmer, is sharing his home with another woman. Rebecca, Beata's longtime friend, has been a source of support helping Rosmer...
27) Paris Spleen
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First published posthumously in 1869, "Paris Spleen" is a collection of 51 short prose poems by Charles Baudelaire. Inspired by Aloysius Bertrand's "Gaspard de la Nuit - Fantaisies à la manière de Rembrandt et de Callot" or "Gaspard of the Night - Fantasies in the Manner of Rembrandt and Callot", Baudelaire remarked that he had read Bertrand's work at least twenty times for starting "Paris Spleen". A commentary on Parisian contemporary life, Baudelaire...
28) R.U.R
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We have Czech writer Karel Čapek to thank for the invention of the word robot and generally for the introduction of the idea of artificial intelligence to the world of literature. His play, "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" was first performed in 1921 and was an instant success. While the "robots" of the play could be more accurately described as cyborgs, Čapek's influence on the science fiction genre with this play would be profound. "R.U.R."...
29) Crimen y castigo
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"¿Por qué hay que leer Crimen y castigo ?
Pues porque Crimen y castigo es el producto de un genio cuyo mundo gira entre la muerte y la locura, porque Dostoievski era un tío que retornaba vivo de aquellos tenebrosos mundos (sus ataques) directamente para escribir historias que también puedan ser devoradas por la juventud del siglo XXI. Y porque Fiódor Mijáilovich Dostoievski ha sido el escritor que ha compuesto los análisis psicológicos más...
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En este breve pero intenso texto —hasta ahora inédito en castellano— el maestro siciliano se convierte en Tiresias y se sumerge en su mito para revelar la verdadera esencia del adivino ciego. Entregado a esa narración viva y carismática tan propia de toda su extensa obra, Camilleri repasa en estas páginas mitos y dioses, escritores y personajes literarios, hila el pasado con el presente y, como Tiresias, escudriña el futuro con su mirada...
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je me balancerai entre mes visions de pourpre
et ma furie sublime
dans ma cage de soleil
David Ménard a publié un roman, Nous aurons vécu nous non plus, et deux recueils de poésie aux Editions L'Interligne. Neuvaines, lauréat de deux prix littéraires d'envergure, a fait l'objet d'une adaptation théâtrale par le Théâtre du Trillium.
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The play opens with Argan, a severe hypochondriac, going through the bill from his apothecary (the pharmacist) item by item. He pays out only about half of what is on the bill. That done, he calls for his maid, Toinette. When she fails to appear immediately he shouts and calls her name until she arrives. Toinette is not interested in putting up with Argan's temper, so she mocks his rage.
33) Quality Street
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"Quality Street" appeared in 1903, one year before the production of Peter Pan, as Barrie was becoming somewhat of a sensation in the theatrical world. This four-act comedy is an adult fairy tale of sorts, brought to life by Barrie's charming imagination and ability to weave between reality and fantasy. Pheobe Throssel and Valentine Brown are a young couple separated by the Neopoleonic wars for ten years, only to find themselves the unfortunate victims...
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Es gibt die große Politik, die über das Schicksal von Völkern entscheidet, und es gibt diejenigen, deren Leben davon bestimmt wird. Aus dem abstrakten historischen Ablauf der Ereignisse wird eine erfahrbare Welt, in der sich Menschen zurecht finden müssen auf der Suche nach dem eigenen Glück...
"Rabeninsel", eine deutsch-deutsche Familiengeschichte, beschreibt diese Suche am Beispiel einer Familie, die auseinandergerissen wird und sich wiederfindet....
35) Poemas
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Los Poemas de Garcilaso de la Vegacambiaron el universo literario de la lengua castellana. Garcilaso de la Vega es uno de los máximos exponentes del Siglo de Oro y uno de los escritores más grandes de la historia.
Como poeta, además de contar con la admiración de sus contemporáneos, fue alabado por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra y Lope de Vega, entre otros. Es para ellos el dios mayor del Parnaso español.
La poesía de Garcilaso de la Vega, tuvo...
36) Aguja de calceta
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Un orfebre lisboeta tiene su próspero negocio en el centro de la ciudad, pero sufre muchos disgustos con el zascandil de su hijo. Cuando el muchacho llega a la adolescencia, los contratiempos en la familia se agravan y además en su negocio, le surgen bastantes dificultades por la convulsa situación social y política que se da en Portugal en el primer tercio del siglo XIX.
La amenaza de guerra civil y la invasión napoleónica coinciden con el...
37) True Life: Poems
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A stunning, intimate collection by the late, great Polish poet Adam Zagajewski.
...I think I sought wisdom
(without resignation) in poems
and also a certain calm madness.
I found, much later, a moment's joy
and melancholy's dark contentment.
In True Life, the Polish writer Adam Zagajewski, one of the world's most admired and beloved poets, turns his gaze to the past with piercing clarity and a tone of wry, lyrical melancholy. He captures the...
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The path to Mozart runs through his wife Constanze.
That path was lost until the discovery of a set of travel diaries, which recorded one couple's visit with Constanze and other loved ones following Mozart's death. Those diaries provided a century-old sketch of Mozart, his family, and friends that left readers wanting more. Using the diaries as a framework, All the Scattered Pages provides a provocative dramatization of what may have really transpired...
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Los poemas que aparecen en La escalera mágica son como gotas destiladas de un alma de mujer que a través de su trayectoria vital sintió, observó con ojos ávidos de conocimiento cuanto la rodeaba y se rebeló ante la injusta realidad con la que se castigaba al mundo femenino a mediados del siglo xx. Son, en definitiva, modestas puntatas en las que se respiran los ensueños y aspiraciones de cuantas mujeres, ya "sin sombrero", siguieron avanzando...
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