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Cover of Chéri-Bibi et Cécily
by Gaston Leroux
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2019

Dans l'oeuvre de Gaston Leroux (1868-1927), le cycle de Chéri-Bibi est le second ensemble romanesque centré autour d'un personnage. Après Rouletabille (Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, Le Parfum de la dame en noir), Leroux met en scène les aventures de Chéri-Bibi, un forçat en rupture de ban,...
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The Work of Art in the Digital Age

The Painting and Pixel - an essay

by Le Berthélaine
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012

- Since the cave mornings of Cro-Magnon man has painted and decorated with colour solutions - In the Digital Age it will be natural - even compelling - to question the traditional painting, its status and legitimacy. - Has the traditional physical painting become a mere thing of the past, an antique,...
Cover of Classical Russian Short Stories
by Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Fjodor Dostoyevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018

Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple...
Cover of Notre-Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
Language: French
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Dans le Paris du XVe siècle, le poète Gringoire nous entraîne du Quartier latin à la sinistre place de Grève, où se dressent gibet et pilori, pour revenir toujours à Notre-Dame de Paris, cette « vaste symphonie de pierre» qui se dresse dans la Cité. Gringoire est, lui aussi, fasciné par...
Cover of Peter Deunov as Remembered by Milka Periklieva
by Milka Periklieva
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013

This book, Peter Deunov, as Remembered by Milka Periklieva - a Disciple, presents a selection of Milka's reminiscences in order to give a personal impression of the Master. The author, Milka Periklieva (1908-1978), was born in Bulgaria in the Black Sea coastal town of Varna. When she was fourteen years...
Cover of The mysticism of Islam
by E.H. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018

The term Sufi is derived from the Arabic word suf "wool," in allusion to the dress adopted by the Dervishes, who are the master and teachers of the sect. The system of the Sufis consists in endeavouring to reconcile Philosophy with Revealed Religion, and in assigning a mystical and allegorical...
Cover of The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
by Fabre D'olivet
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018

THE ancients had the habit of comparing with gold all that they deemed without defects and pre-eminently beautiful: thus, by the Golden Age they understood, the age of virtues and of happiness; and by the Golden Verses, the verses, wherein was concealed the most pure doctrine. They constantly attributed...
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Psychologie collective et analyse du moi

Edition originale de Freud de 1921 (texte intégral)

by Sigmund Freud
Language: French
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Psychologie des masses et analyse du moi est un ouvrage de Sigmund Freud publié en 1921 sous le titre Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse et traduit pour la première fois en français en 1924 sous le titre Psychologie collective et analyse du moi. Ouvrage écrit par Freud en 1920, juste après Au-delà...
Cover of Australian legends and folklore
by Katie Langloh
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018

A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folklore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks any legends?"-thus showing that people may live in a country and yet know little of the aboriginal...
Cover of Walking
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

"Walking" is an essay by Henry David Thoreau that encourages you to consciously enjoy the beauty of nature again and again.
Cover of Der Graf von Monte Christo
by Alexandre Dumas
Language: German
Release Date: August 24, 2015

"Der Graf von Monte Christo" (orig. "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo") ist ein Abenteuerroman von Alexandre Dumas. Zwischen 1844 und 1846 veröffentlichte Dumas den "Graf von Monte Christo" als Fortsetzungsroman in der Zeitschrift "Le Journal des débats" und erzielte damit ungeahnten Erfolg. Noch bevor der...
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Der Ruf der Wildnis

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by Jack London
Language: German
Release Date: July 18, 2016

Ein fesselnder Roman aus der Zeit des Goldrausches: Jack London beschreibt in seinem Klassiker das Schicksal von Buck, der als Schlittenhund nach Alaska entführt wird. Das Tier muss dort brutale Gewalt aushalten. Doch schließlich erlebt Buck durch Jack Thornton, dass Menschen auch freundlich und liebevoll...
Cover of Krieg und Frieden
by Lew Tolstoi
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2018

Es ist die Zeit der napoleonischen Kriege. Aus der Perspektive des russischen Adels beschreibt Lew Tolstoi die praktischen Folgen des häufigen Wechsels zwischen Krieg und Frieden für das Leben der russischen Bevölkerung. Der Bestseller »Krieg und Frieden« schildert historische Ereignisse und...
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Die besten Zitate von Arthur Schopenhauer und Friedrich Nietzsche

Die schönsten und witzigsten Aphorismen über das Glück, das Leben und die Menschen

by Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche
Language: German
Release Date: March 20, 2019

Zwei Giganten der Philosophie: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) und Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) zählen zu den bekanntesten und scharfsinnigsten Denkern aller Zeiten. Mit messerscharfen und zeitlosen Kommentaren analysierten Schopenhauer und Nietzsche ihre Mitmenschen und die Welt. Die beiden Denker...
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