Maurice: 1983 books

Extrait : "« Joseph fut mis en prison, » c'est la première fois que ce mot se trouve dans la Genèse, mais nous le rencontrons ensuite dans presque tous les livres de Bible. Et que ce prison mot ne nous inspire pas trop d'effroi, trop d'horreur, quelque tristes que soient les idées qu'il réveille,...

Un soir, un bouchon de cristal arrive dans la poche d'Arsène Lupin, puis disparaît mystérieusement... Pourquoi cet objet est-il si recherché ? Et par qui ? Une fois de plus, Arsène Lupin va rencontrer des personnages intrigants et va se trouver dans des situations étonnantes. Complice...

Extrait : "Au lycée de Nancy, en 1880, M. Auguste Burdeau, notre professeur de philosophie, ouvrit un jour un tout petit livre: –Je vais vous lire quelques fragments d'un des plus rares esprits de ce temps. C'étaient les Rêveries d'un païen mystique. Pages subtiles et fortes, qui convenaient mal...

What I have presented in the essays is neither wrong-viewed nor right-viewed. It is but ones viewing. It is open to criticism, alteration of intent, changing of purpose, and laughter at my try at them all. My views are not fixed in stone because I am not. They are attempts at outposts as I keep on...

This 1922 collection—dedicated to the memory of Theodore Roosevelt, "a man of action in love with books"—is a sort of literary and bibliographic autobiography, tracing the origins of the author's love of reading and books, as well as giving a number of sharp critical judgments of such authors as Twain, Dickens, and Thackeray.

A touching tale narrated by the protagonist. Set in Italy this work dwells on the attitudes and culture of the English aristocracy. It is the tale of one of Englands nobles who deems his surroundings shallow and unrewarding and sets on the quest to conquer life. A deep insight into the characters reflections makes the work very interesting.

This historical novel tells the tragic story of Mary Queen of Scots, from her childhood until the beginning of her end, whose unwise marital and political actions provoked rebellion among Scottish nobles and forced her to flee to England, where she was beheaded as a Roman Catholic threat to the throne....

Our book is a translation of the first part of the Voynich manuscript. This manuscript is a wonderful 15th century manuscript on wove paper. It owes its name to Wilfrid Voynich, who bought it from the Jesuits in 1912 near Rome. This manuscript is currently in the library of Yale University. The beautiful...

This is the story of Ira “Teen” Palm, a soldier in World War II, from Mount Vernon, NY, through the European Theater of World War II, to his acquisition of a pistol engraved with Hitler’s initials as he stormed Hitler’s Munich apartment in a covert operation. The story of the man and the pistol has never been told—and might just write a new chapter in history.

En plein pays de Caux, non loin de l’embouchure de la Seine, le manoir délabré de La Barre-y-va est le théâtre d’événements mystérieux et terribles. Catherine Montessieux, la jeune fille qui en est l’héritière, ne retrouve plus à leur place ses arbres favoris. Une vieille à demi folle...

Here are two suites Debussy composed specifically for piano four hands, Petite Suite and Six Épigraphes Antiques, plus Ravel's arrangement for four hands of Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and a piano four hands version of Prélude, Cortège and Air de Danse from L'Enfant Prodigue. These...

THE study of mediaeval philosophy has undergone considerable change in recent years, and the developments in this field of research have been important. On all sides the soil has been turned, and just as in archaeological excavation, as at Pompeii or at Timgad, here too discoveries unexpectedly rich...

Blue, green, and black plaques—they are everywhere in Bristol, on houses, bridges, and even on a river bank. But have you ever wanted to know more than the brief details they tell you about the person they honor? There are fascinating and colorful stories behind each of the 100 plaques in the city,...

The Little Book of Ranelagh is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts this Dublin suburb. Here you will find out about Ranelagh's rural past, its sporting heritage, its arts and culture, its schools and churches and its famous (and occasionally infamous) men and women....