Georges: 1999 books

Book cover of The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille
by Georges Thenault, Walter Duranty
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012

The Lafayette Escadrille was a legendary fighter squadron of the French Air Service in World War I. It was founded in 1916 as the Escadrille Américaine, around a core group of brave young American pilots who had volunteered to fight for France. Their well-publicized exploits helped tip American...
Book cover of The Bells of Bruges
by Georges Rodenbach
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The Bells of Bruges is a study of obsessive love which is steeped in the melancholy beauty of Bruges. There are three loves in the life of Joris Borluut, the town carillonneur of Bruges. He marries the fiery Barbara, whose dark beauty is a reminder of Belgium's Spanish heritage. Repelled by her harshness...
Book cover of Blue of Noon
by Georges Bataille
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor, sadism and drunken encounters, his internal collapse mirrors...
Book cover of Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind

Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind

Facts and Recommendations

by Brian M. Stecher, Georges Vernez
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010

Studies suggest that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001's goal of 100 percent of U.S. students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014 will not be met. The authors recommend more-uniform state academic standards and teacher requirements and broader measures of student learning, including more subjects and tests of higher-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Book cover of God The Invisible King
by H. Georges Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015

Book cover of La pazza di Maigret

La pazza di Maigret

Le inchieste di Maigret (73 di 75)

by Georges Simenon
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 25, 2013

«Sembrava ancora più piccola mentre gli trotterellava accanto». «“Vede, commissario, la cosa più importante è che lei sappia che non sono pazza. So come i giovani considerano le persone anziane, e io sono una donna molto anziana”». «“Ha ottantasei anni, giusto?”». «“Vedo che il...
Book cover of La vedova Couderc
by Georges Simenon
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 29, 2014

Un giovane ricco esce di prigione, non sa dove andare: si ritrova – quasi senza accorgersene – a convivere con una matura vedova in una casa di campagna lungo un canale. È un rifugio, una nicchia di innocente, riposante carnalità, da cui guardare con più leggerezza le cose e le persone intorno...
Book cover of La casa dei Krull
by Georges Simenon
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2017

La casa dei Krull è ai margini del paese; e loro stessi, in quanto tedeschi, sia pur naturalizzati, ne vengono tenuti ai margini. Sono gli stranieri, i diversi. Nella loro drogheria non si servono i francesi, ma solo i marinai che a bordo delle chiatte percorrono il canale. E quando proprio davanti...
Book cover of Profil - Kafka, Welles : Le Procès

Profil - Kafka, Welles : Le Procès

Analyse littéraire de l'oeuvre

by Fanny Deschamps, Gérard Milhe Poutignon, Georges Decote
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2004

L’ouvrage fournit toutes les clés pour analyser le roman de Franz Kafka et le film d’Orson Welles. • Les résumés et les repères pour la lecture des deux œuvres sont suivis de l’étude des problématiques essentielles, parmi lesquelles : – Frank Kafka et Le Procès – Orson Welles et...
Book cover of Espectros

Espectros

Ghostly Hauntings in Contemporary Transhispanic Narratives

by María del Carmen Caña Jiménez, Edward M. Chauca, Megan Corbin
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015

Espectros is a compilation of original scholarly studies that presents the first volume-length exploration of the spectral in literature, film, and photography of Latin America, Spain, and the Latino diaspora. In recent decades, scholarship in deconstructionist "hauntology," trauma studies, affect...
Book cover of La Farce du cuvier
by Anonyme, Georges Gassies des Brulies
Language: French
Release Date: March 12, 2016

La scène se passe dans un modeste intérieur du xve siècle : bahut, escabeaux, meubles divers, ustensiles de ménage. Porte au fond. — Un peu à gauche, sur le devant du théâtre, une table rustique et un escabeau. — À droite, un grand cuvier, disposé sur des tréteaux, pour...
Book cover of Conversations on Cinema
by De Gaetano Roberto, Slavoj Žižek, Paul Schrader
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013

Eleven conversations taken from as many issues of Fata Morgana. Eleven conversations which synthesize the project behind the journal which was born in spring 2006. At the time it was decided against having an editorial comment because of the conviction that if the journal was going to succeed it would...
Book cover of CINEMA, THOUGHT, LIFE. Conversations with Fata Morgana
by Paolo Jedlowski, Roberto De Gaetano, Jacques Rancière
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

24 conversazioni apparse su Fata Morgana con grandi figure della contemporaneità, studiosi e artisti che parlano del cinema facendone un luogo del pensiero e una forma di vita. Un viaggio in cui il cinema e l’immagine, più di ogni altra forma d’arte, si riscoprono indissolubilmente legati alla...
Book cover of Louis XVII en Champagne
by Georges Hérelle
Language: French
Release Date: July 4, 2014

Extrait :  Le 5 prairial an VI, vers cinq heures du soir, la diligence de Strasbourg, venant de Châlons, arrivait à  grand fracas dans le village de Mairy-sur-Marne. On sait que les conducteurs n’ont pas besoin du prétexte  d’un relai pour faire halte aux auberges...
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