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Des millions d'hommes ont vu tomber des pommes, sans se soucier de la gravitation universelle ; des millions d'autres ont lu et relu la Bible, sans y découvrir, comme moi, le processus de la formation mentale de Dieu. Pourquoi m'est-ce arrivé à moi ? J'étais imprégné de Dieu en naissant ; mon...

It seems self-evident that music plays more than just an aesthetic role in contemporary society. In addition, music's social, political, emancipatory, and economical functions have been the subject of much recent research. Given this, it is surprising that the subject of ethics has often been neglected...

The excellent Monsieur Dutilleul has always been able to pass through walls, but has never seen the point of using his gift, given the general availability of doors. One day, however, his tyrannical boss drives him to desperate, creative measures — he develops a taste for intramural travel and becomes...

The F-Section of the SOE was a department that stood for French Section, whose job it was to carry out Churchill's famous command to 'set Europe alight'. This is the story of F-Section.

This eBook edition of "A Royal Prisoner" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The King of Hesse-Weimar is arriving in, with a famous diamond of tremendous worth in his keeping. Fantômas bites the bait and foils the ingenious and...

"Andree'nin, o kendine has, zarif hareketlerinden biriyle, sokularak, başını Albertine'in omzuna dayayışını, gözleri yarı kapalı, boynunu öpüşünü görüyordum; ya da ikisinin arasında geçen bir bakışı yakalıyordum; ikisini tek başlarına denize girerken görmüş olan biri,...

"Sevdiğimiz zaman, aşk o kadar büyüktür ki bir bütün olarak içimize sığmaz; sevdiğimiz insana doğru yayılır, onda kendisini durduran, başlangıç noktasına geri dönmeye zorlayan bir yüzey bulur; işte karşımızdakinin hisleri dediğimiz şey, kendi sevgimizin çarpıp geri...

"... tıpkı Japonların, suyla dolu porselen bir kaseye akıttıkları silikkağıt parçalarının, suya girer girmez şekillenerek, renklenerek belirginlik kazandığı, somut, şüpheye yer bırakmayan birer çiçek, ev, insan olduğu oyunlarındaki gibi, hem bizim bahçedeki, hem M. Swann'ın...

"Gerçeklik, meçhule giden yolda bir ilk adımdır sadece ve bu yolda pek fazla ilerlememiz mümkün değildir. En iyisi bilmemek, mümkün olduğunca az düşünmek, kıskançlığa en ufak bir somut ayrıntı sunmamaktır. Ne yazık ki, dış dünya olmasa da iç dünyamız bazı olaylar çıkarır...

The initial part of the story focuses on the romantic life of a middle aged man named Swann. Proust has used poetic style of words to describe the nature and environment of France. His sentence structure is impressive and filled with searing insightful and humorous criticisms of French society.

Depending on the version you read, after almost four thousand pages, the reader can be forgiven for feeling exhausted before embarking upon the seventh volume of Proust's massive masterpiece A la recherche du temps perdu. The work is an epic journey, but the sweeping first volume (Swann's Way, and...

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C. K. Scott...

The novel The Godfather (1969) and the movie of the same name (1972) entrenched the myth of the Mafiosi as valiant knights, men of honor, and defenders of the traditional concept of family. As a result of this movie and other popular portrayals, the image of mobsters as “men of honor and tradition”...

The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and The Fugitive (1925). In The Captive, Proust’s narrator describes living in his mother’s Paris apartment with his lover, Albertine, and subsequently falling out of love with her. In The Fugitive,...