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In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower is Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolescence, charged with the narrator's memories of Paris and the Normandy seaside. At the heart of the story lie his relationships with his grandmother and with the Swann family. As a meditation on different...

There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature...

Scapin, le valet italien, est fourbe. Il est menteur, voleur, hypocrite et perfide. Mais, à sa façon, il est aussi fidèle et courageux. Il lutte en permanence contre les injustices de son temps, celle par exemple qui empêche les amoureux de se marier librement. Voilà pourquoi ses jeunes maîtres...

It is probable that everybody who is at all a constant dreamer has had at least one experience of an event or a sequence of circumstances which have come to his mind in sleep being subsequently realized in the material world. But, in my opinion, so far from this being a strange thing, it would be far...

Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Once a dream did weave a shade O'er my angel guarded bed, That an emmet lost its way Where on grass methought I lay. Troubled, wildered, and forlorn, Dark, benighted, travel-worn, Over many a tangled spray, All heart broke,...

It is through its temples and tombs that ancient Egypt is mainly known to us. It is true that the warm and rainless climate of Upper Egypt has preserved many of the objects of daily life accidentally buried in the ruins of its cities, and that even fragments of fragile papyrus have come from the mounds...

The history of the publication of the Journal to Stella is somewhat curious. On Swift's death twenty-five of the letters, forming the closing portion of the series, fell into the hands of Dr. Lyon, a clergyman who had been in charge of Swift for some years. The letters passed to a man named Wilkes,...

Il y a Lagardère bien sûr, héros mythique comme d'Artagnan ; il y a le personnage du Bossu dont la bosse servait de pupitre aux spéculateurs de la Régence ; il y a la devise : "Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi" ; il y a les deux spadassins Cocardasse et Passepoil......

Il y a Lagardère bien sûr, héros mythique comme d'Artagnan ; il y a le personnage du Bossu dont la bosse servait de pupitre aux spéculateurs de la Régence ; il y a la devise : "Si tu ne vas pas à Lagardère, Lagardère ira à toi" ; il y a les deux spadassins Cocardasse et Passepoil......

Le roi était malade un peu; Mme la marquise de Pompadour avait «ses vapeurs», cette migraine du XVIIIe siècle dont on s'est tant moqué et que nous avons remplacée par la névralgie, les médecins, pour leur commerce, étant obligés, comme les tailleurs, de trouver sans cesse des noms nouveaux aux vieilles choses. Sans cela, à quoi leur servirait le grec de cuisine qui les gonfle?

This volume on psychotherapy belongs to a series of books which I am writing to discuss for a wider public the practical applications of modern psychology. The chief aim of this book is twofold. It is a negative one: I want to counteract the misunderstandings which overflood the whole field, especially...

Should any one of the people not know the art of loving, let him read me; and taught by me, on reading my lines, let him love. By art the ships are onward sped by sails and oars; by art are the light chariots, by art is Love, to be guided. In the chariot and in the flowing reins was Automedon skilled:...

If you think PTA meetings are boring, then you haven’t attended one in Barbara Marr’s neighborhood, where MURDER is on the agenda. Always one to stumble into trouble, Barb learns the hard way that a seemingly innocent yearbook scandal is actually part of a more sinister and deadly plot. Join soccer...

Kieran's croak sounded scary, but when Tanner looked into his bright eyes he could not help liking him. At the pet store where he always used to get the special food for the ducks in town, he asked about the food habits of ravens. The store keeper did not understand why Tanner wanted to feed a raven...