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Uncommon women and others
Par Wendy Wasserstein. 1978
Contemporary play about five bright women graduates of Mount Holyoke College who meet for dinner and reminisce after six years.…
Lays bare the inconsistencies of life at an elitist women's school. Strong language and some descriptions of sexTiempos revueltos
Par Vionette G Negretti. 2010
"This bestseller in Puerto Rico is the complete story of the only revolution against the United States, told from the…
perspective of Comandante Elio Torresola, who led the rebel forces to victory during El Grito de Jayuya. In 1950, Puerto Rican nationalists stunned the world when they succeeded in destroying the international image of the United States as the 'Champion of Democracy' by declaring the Republic of Puerto Rico and extending the reach of the rebellion into the heartland of the United States through a direct attack on President Truman. |Times of Upheaval| is the product of a three-year investigation by a journalist who delved into personal and official documents, including the FBI's so-called Secret Files on Puerto Rico, newspapers, books and theses at the University of Puerto Rico, and interviews with witnesses to the events, as well as with the revolutionaries and their families." -- Translation provided by NLSLa cantatrice chauve: anti-pièce ; suivi de La leçon : drame comique (Folio #236)
Par Eugène Ionesco. 1984
« Tout le monde la connaît. Peu peuvent l'expliquer. C'est ce que fait à merveille Emmanuel Jacquart, éditeur du Théâtre…
de Ionesco dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Il commence par retracer l'historique, la genèse de la pièce, à partir de " L'anglais sans peine " de la méthode Assimil. Les répliques se sont naturellement assemblées, et l'ensemble a produit ce que l'auteur appelle une " anti-pièce " une vraie parodie de pièce, sans ambition idéologique particulière. Dans cet illustre chef-d'oeuvre, l'esprit de dérision prend le contre-pied de la tradition. Une série de sketches désopilants jusqu'au dénouement tonitruant et digne des surréalistes, telle est la pièce dont nous étudions les secrets en la replaçant dans la tradition de l'antitradition, de la modernité en évolution. C'est désormais, dans un format élégant et maniable, la version de référence de " La Cantatrice chauve ". »Les justes: pièce en cinq actes (Folio Ser.)
Par Albert Camus. 1988
Cette pièce retrace l'histoire des circonstances qui ont précédé et suivi l'attentat à la bombe contre le grand-duc, oncle du…
tsar, à Moscou en 1905, par un groupe de terroristes appartenant au Parti socialiste révolutionnaire. Les différentes sensibilités de ces révolutionnaires se croisent et se confrontent.Kissing game (Fuwa Fuwa)
Par Rhiannon Collett. 2023
Y regarde, pis y regarde, pis y regarde, pis y arrête jamais, pis derrière lui, Kate me dit c'est correct…
c'est correct c'est correct, pis je soulève mon marteau. Le jour où Kate demande à son amie Sam d'attaquer un agresseur sexuel, cette dernière ne se pose aucune question et la suit. Mais la violence du geste teintera tout. Même le fleuve. Même l'amour. La collection Fuwa Fuwa propose ici ce texte en version bilingue, afin d'offrir en miroir le souffle particulier de la langue originaleThe Last Anniversary: A Novel
Par Liane Moriarty. 2005
From Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, comes an unforgettable…
novel defined by her signature sharp wit, page-turning storyline, and lovable and eccentric characters.Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island—home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery.Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family, where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger, while dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it's about time she started making her own decisions.As Sophie's life becomes increasingly complicated, she discovers that sometimes you have to stop waiting around—and come up with your own fairy-tale ending.The Diamond Eye: A Novel
Par Kate Quinn. 2022
New York Times BestsellerThe bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm…
who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story.In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kyiv, wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son—but Hitler’s invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper—a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour.Still reeling from war wounds and devastated by loss, Mila finds herself isolated and lonely in the glittering world of Washington, DC—until an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and an even more unexpected connection with a silent fellow sniper offer the possibility of happiness. But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a deadly new foe lurking in the shadows, Lady Death finds herself battling her own demons and enemy bullets in the deadliest duel of her life.Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Par Nikolay Gogol. 2005
Author, dramatist and satirist, Nikolay Gogol (1809-1852) deeply influenced later Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated…
by petty beaurocracy and base corruption. This volume includes both his most admired short fiction and his most famous drama. A biting and frequently hilarious political satire, The Government Inspector has been popular since its first performance and was regarded by Nabokov as the greatest Russian play every written. The stories gathered here, meanwhile, range from comic to tragic and describe the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. They include Diary of a Madman, an amusing but disturbing exploration of insanity; Nevsky Prospect, a depiction of an artist besotted with a prostitute; and The Overcoat, a moving consideration of poverty that powerfully influenced Dostoevsky and later Russian literature.The Scroll of Seduction: A Novel
Par Gioconda Belli. 2006
Manuel is a man of many talents; an art historian and professor, he is also an exquisite storyteller. When he…
meets 16-year-old Lucía on an outing from her boarding school, he offers to narrate a story of dire consequences—that of the Spanish Queen Juana of Castile and her legendary love for her husband, Philippe the Handsome.Promised to Prince Philippe the Handsome to solidify ties between the Flemish and Spanish crowns, Queen Juana immediately fell in love with her betrothed with all the abandon and passion of her fiery personality. Theirs was one of the most tumultuous love stories of all time. But Juana, who was also one of the most learned princesses of the Renaissance, was forced to pay a high price for being headstrong and daring to be herself. Those at court who could not fathom Juana as heir to the throne of the most important empire of its day conspired against her and began to question her sanity. Eventually she came to be known as Juana the Mad. But was she really insane, or just a victim of her impetuosity and unbridled passion?As the novel unfolds, Lucía and Manuel become enmeshed in a complex psychological web that seduces and incites them to relive Juana and Philippe's story, and eventually leads them to a mysterious manuscript that may hold the key to Juana's alleged madness.