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Anarchie de la lumière: poésie (Poésie)
Par José Acquelin. 2014
" Dans ce livre de textes en prose d'une grande harmonie de ton, José Acquelin propose une réflexion sur la…
société contemporaine, et sur le rôle qua joué la poésie dans son parcours d'homme attentif et amoureux de la nature humaine. Dans une langue méditative, Anarchie de la lumière atteste que seule la poésie gagne le pari de proposer une réponse empreinte d'humanité. " -- 4e de couvClassics for pleasure
Par Michael Dirda. 2007
Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic introduces roughly ninety literary authors and recommends some of his favorite works of fantasy, science fiction,…
horror, adventure, biography, history, and poetry. Contains essays on writers Ovid, Petronius, Agatha Christie, and Philip K. Dick and on Arthurian romances and H. Rider Haggard's She. 2007Novelist explores the relationships among five writers of the transcendentalist movement who clustered around the home of wealthy Ralph Waldo…
Emerson in Concord, Massachusetts, during 1840-1868. Highlights their intertwined families and the love affairs that contributed to the creation of their literary masterpieces. 2006Letter to my daughter
Par Maya Angelou. 2008
Author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RC 57200, BR 15665) shares life lessons in the form of…
reminiscences, poems, and short essays with her thousands of young daughters all over the world. In "Senegal" Angelou commits a social faux pas that her hostess graciously ignores. Bestseller. 2008Washington Irving: an American original
Par Brian Jay Jones. 2008
Biography of Washington Irving (1783-1859), author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (DB 51748, BR 8876). Chronicles Irving's New York…
upbringing, his years abroad, the 1809 death of his fiancée, and the publication of the satirical Knickerbocker's History of New York, which secured his literary reputation and celebrity. 2008Looking for Anne of Green Gables: the story of L.M. Montgomery and her literary classic
Par Irene Gammel, St. Martin`s Press. 2008
Biography of Canadian novelist Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) that explains her creation of Anne Shirley, the main character of the…
1908 bestseller Anne of Green Gables (DB 56114). Details Montgomery's private life and relates its influences on her writing. 2008Nous nous sommes tant aimés: conventum : théâtre (Collection principale #63)
Par Simon Boulerice. 2021
Trente ans après la fin de leurs études secondaires, quatre amis se concoctent un conventum personnel. Au mitan de leur…
vie, l'heure est au bilan. Leur amitié a-t-elle survécu? Le temps les a-t-il véritablement bonifiés? Leur homophobie n'était-elle qu'un reflet de l'époque? C'est ce dont doute Maryse, qui, ado, aurait tant voulu être incluse dans le quatuor tricoté serré. Un soir d'après-bal, en 1990, malmenée par ce clan à la fois lumineux et toxique, Maryse a vécu le moment le plus traumatisant de sa vie. Depuis, le cinéma la cautérise autant qu'il assouvit ses fantasmes de vengeance. Mais comme ce serait doux de se venger pour de vrai, sans passer par la docile catharsisPlus haut que les flammes: poésie
Par Louise Dupré. 2010
Writing mysteries: a handbook
Par Sue Grafton. 2002
Tony Hillerman, Lawrence Block, Sara Paretsky, and others provide advice on such topics as composing convincing dialog, mastering pacing and…
suspense, developing series characters, depicting violence, and revising and marketing manuscripts. They also cover writing mystery-genre specialties including young adult, medical, legal, historical, and true-crime stories. Some violence. 2002Katherine Anne Porter: the life of an artist (Willie Morris books in memoir and biography)
Par Darlene Harbour Unrue. 2005
Professor uses personal letters to pen a biography of American author Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980). Describes Porter's impoverished childhood and…
numerous unsuccessful marriages as well as her health scares with tuberculosis and the 1918 Spanish flu. Analyzes the political and social conditions that influenced Porter's writing. 2005Gather together in my name
Par Maya Angelou. 1993
A continuation of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (BR 15665), this memoir begins at the end of World…
War II. Angelou recalls being an unwed mother at seventeen and becoming a prostitute for an older man who deceived her. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. 1974Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas
Par Maya Angelou. 1976
In this third volume of her memoirs, following Gather Together in My Name (BR 16910), Angelou covers her twenties. Describes…
her relationship with the white world, her early motherhood, and her show business career that began when she was a dancer in a San Francisco club. 1976A song flung up to heaven
Par Maya Angelou. 2002
In this sixth volume of her memoirs, Angelou documents her return to America from Ghana in the 1960s to participate…
in the civil rights movement. Discusses the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., the Watts riots, her friendship with James Baldwin--and their impact on her life. 2002The bedside book of birds: an avian miscellany
Par Graeme Gibson. 2005
A compilation of stories, poems, essays, and scientific observations exploring human fascination with birds. Selections span the centuries from Aristotle…
and Ovid to Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Matthiessen, and Margaret Atwood. Dorothy Hartley explains in "Goose Grease" the characteristics and uses of this fat. 2005Brave new world revisited (Perennial Classics Ser.)
Par Aldous Huxley. 2000
Series of essays in which the author examines various threats to human freedom predicted in his 1930s satirical novel Brave…
New World (DB 47108). Discusses overpopulation, government propaganda, brainwashing, chemically induced as well as subconsciously suggested persuasion, and education, along with possible countermeasures. 1958Home and exile
Par Chinua Achebe. 2000
Reflecting on his childhood, schooling, and career, renowned Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe recalls some impacts of European imperialism,…
which often displaced the African cultures it encountered. Praises writers of his generation for acknowledging the continent's aspirations that are denied by the myth of Western primacy. 2000Wild ducks flying backward: the short writings of Tom Robbins
Par Tom Robbins. 2005
A compilation of the novelist Tom Robbins's nonfiction writing--stories, poems, musings, critiques, travel articles, celebrity profiles, and responses to self-posed…
questions. In "Kissing" Robbins ranks the tradition of osculation as western man's greatest invention. In "Till Lunch Do Us Part" he praises the appeal of a ripe tomato sandwich. 2005Letters to a young poet
Par Rainer Maria Rilke. 2002
In ten letters written to an aspiring poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) reveals his own creative genius. Rilke's correspondence provides…
insights into his greatest poetry as well as his ideas of art, love, and death. Translated from German and introduced by Reginald Snell. 1903A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599: 1599
Par James Shapiro. 2005
Professor highlights a seminal year in Shakespeare's life that included the writing of four plays--Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You…
Like It, and Hamlet--and the building of the Globe Theatre. Portrays turmoil surrounding rebellion in Ireland, creation of the East India Company, and political intrigue. 2005The best of Oscar Wilde: selected plays and literary criticism
Par Oscar Wilde. 2004
A selection of work by Irish playwright and poet Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Includes the plays Salomé, Lady Windermere's Fan, A…
Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Brief literary criticism from various sources and introduction by professor Sylvan Barnet. 2004