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L'Occident a été coupable de tromperie à plusieurs niveaux, utilisant ses médias influents pour dominer le monde par la désinformation, la manipulation de masse et le mensonge. Cela a abouti à l'oubli de l'histoire royale des Africains et de la beauté incomparable de leurs origines. Depuis le début de l'opération spéciale en Ukraine, le président russe, Vladimir Poutine, transmet un puissant message de justice qui réfute les mensonges...
2002) Flaubert
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Michel Winock's biography situates Gustave Flaubert's life and work in France's century of great democratic transition. Flaubert did not welcome the egalitarian society predicted by Tocqueville. Wary of the masses, he rejected the universal male suffrage hard won by the Revolution of 1848, and he was exasperated by the nascent socialism that promoted the collective to the detriment of the individual. But above all, he hated the bourgeoisie. Vulgar,...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Night tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Elie Wiesel's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Night includes: • Historical context • Chapter-by-chapter overviews • Analysis of the main characters • Themes and symbols • Important...
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A collection of literary criticism from the Nobel Prize—winning playwright behind such classics as Saint Joan and Pygmalion.
The Critical Shaw: On Literature is a comprehensive selection of renowned Irish playwright and Nobel Laureate Bernard Shaw's ideas and opinions on a wide range of literary forms of expression, from Shakespearean drama to ghost stories, from naturalist novels to philosophical essays. Shaw meticulously applied his comprehensive...
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All over the world, traditional tales were told at the fireside until books, newspapers, radio, and television took their place. This is an entertaining collection from Scotland, recorded and collected by researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh over the past fifty years. Taken from a variety of sources, from the Hebridean Gaelic tradition to recordings of Lowland cairds (travelers), some are well-known tales...
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This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left's attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in Britain have both failed to introduce socialism in their countries, while Podemos has had...
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Sarah Spence is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. Her books include Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century and Rhetorics of Reason and Desire: Vergil, Augustine, and the Troubadours.
Sicily and the strategies of empire in the poetic imagination of classical and medieval Europe
In the first century BC, Cicero praised Sicily as Rome's first overseas province and confirmed...
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In the mid-Victorian era, liberalism was a practical politics: it had a party, it informed legislation, and it had adherents who identified with and expressed it as opinion. It was also the first British political movement to depend more on people than property, and on opinion rather than interest. But how would these subjects of liberal politics actually live liberalism?
To answer this question, Elaine Hadley focuses on the key concept of individuation-how...
2009) Beautiful Affair
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From the early days of his music with Stockton's Wing to his time training at Ballymaloe Cookery School, food and music have been parallel lines that have kept Mike Hanrahan on track his entire life.
Mike Hanrahan, cook and teacher, songwriter and musician, takes us back stage and into the kitchens of a bohemian, international and surprisingly foodie group of Irish household names, including Ronnie Drew, Finbar Furey, Maura O'Connell, Leslie Dowdall,...
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A proponent of Scottish Home Rule offers a clear and concise introduction to the merits of the policy and the history of the movement.
Every debate about the Scottish constitution should include the topic of Scottish Home Rule, and if there is to be another referendum in Scotland then Home Rule should be one of the options on the ballot paper. Yet, for all its importance, Home Rule is not widely understood.
The proposal is seen by many Unionists...
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Presented in both English and Portuguese, this lyric poetry collection explores the "troublesome blessing and burden of being human" (Publishers Weekly).
Love. Sex. Death. Meat. Traffic. Pets. In Cattle of the Lord, Rosa Alice Branco offers a stunning poetic vision at once sacred and profane, a rich evocation of daily life troubled by uneasy sacramentality.
In a collection translated by Alexis Levitin and presented in both Portuguese and English,...
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Uncover the vibrant tapestry of Romani life in the Czech Lands with "Don't Call Me Gypsy: A Journey through Czech Romani History and Fairy Tales." This captivating book invites you to explore the rich heritage of the Romani community in the Czech Republic, delving into their history, culture, and traditions.Discover the fascinating Romani history and enduring presence in the Czech Republic. From their nomadic roots to their vibrant cultural traditions,...
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How the repeated social tropes and paradigms of the City comedies give us an in-depth look into everyday London society in the early 17th-century.
Although literature is often, assumed to belong to the sphere of representation rather than constituting an accurate reflection of social reality, early-modern English drama can tell us much about social attitudes in the early seventeenth century. The City comedies were, in particular, composed by authors,...
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"The essays gathered in this volume demonstrate that studying early modern European literary forgeries is a fascinating cultural adventure" (Lina Bolzoni author of The Gallery of Memory).
This comprehensive study of literary and historiographical forgery goes well beyond questions of authorship. It spotlights the imaginative vitality of forgery and its sinister impact on genuine scholarship. This volume demonstrates that early modern forgery was...
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Samuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that seem at once to confront finitude and the infinite, up to the limits of existence.
Gabriele Schwab draws on decades of close engagement with...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Brave New World tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Aldous Huxley's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of Brave New World includes: Historical contextChapter-by-chapter overviewsProfiles of the main charactersThemes and symbolsImportant...
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Life and literature were inseparable for Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. In “England's First Family of Writers”, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how and why the works of these individuals can best be understood within the context of the family unit in which they were created.
The first to consider their writing collectively, Carlson finds in the Wollstonecraft-Godwin-Shelley dynasty a family of writers whose works are in...
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"WE ARE ALL PROMPTED BY THE SAME MOTIVES, ALL DECEIVED BY THE SAME FALLACIES, ALL ANIMATED BY HOPE, OBSTRUCTED BY DANGER, ENTANGLED BY DESIRE, AND SEDUCED BY PLEASURE." This book is a biography of the man who wrote those words about three hundred years ago, the great man of letters of the eighteenth century, Samuel Johnson. And it has a special purpose: presenting the story of Sam's life in a shorter form than any other researched biography, and conveying...
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The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, and now the twenty-first.
Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's “1984” has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about it, TV viewers watch a reality show named for...
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Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. In Au Revoir, Tristesse, Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre...
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