Gajto Gazdanov emigreerde in 1920 vanuit Wit-Rusland naar Parijs, waar hij acht jaar lang werkte als havenarbeider, schoonmaker van locomotieven en arbeider in de Citroën fabriek. Gedurende lange perioden van werkeloosheid sliep hij op bankjes...

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André Schwarz-Bart nello scrivere questo romanzo, romanzo che sfocia nell'immane tragedia dell'Olocausto, con l'intento di ricostruire il lungo percorso dell'essere ebraico e di una continuità storica che era innanzitutto continuità spirituale....

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A winsome armadillo from Brazil takes a trip to Paris in this delightful new picture book from Julie Kraulis. Arlo is an armadillo who is always up for adventure. His grandfather, Augustin, loved...

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A thirteenth century castle, Château de Doux Rêves, has been forgotten for generations, left to ruin in a storybook forest nestled deep in France’s picturesque Loire Valley. It survived a sacking in the French Revolution, was brought back to life and fashioned into...

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Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses to reflect...

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Following the twin trails of desire and depravity to a shocking, sadistic paradise—a garden in China where torture is practiced as an art form—a dissolute Frenchman discovers the true depths of degradation beyond...

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"Evocative photography and a wealth of detail make the book a visual treat."--"Interior Design" Marie Antoinette, whose marriage at fifteen made her queen of France before she was twenty, died under the blade of the guillotine in 1793. She has been romanticized as...

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Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work has...

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Candide is the most famous of Voltaire's "philosophical tales," in which he combined witty improbabilities with the sanest of good sense. First published in 1759, it was an instant bestseller and has come to be regarded as one of the key texts of the Enlightenment. What Candide does...

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In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French...

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