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Les adversaires de l'existentialisme prétendent qu'une philosophie de la liberté est a priori incapable de proposer une morale. Du moment que nous sommes libres, disent-il...
Das im Jahr 1783 und in veränderter Form 1784 uraufgeführte "Republikanische Trauerspiel" Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua ist Friedrich Schillers erstes historisches ...
L'étouffoir... Ce n'est pas seulement cette lande qui sent le pin brûlé. Maltaverne et ses deux mille hectares, ses papillons cloués à la résine des arbres... C'est aussi ...
How to get the tiger out of the teapot stymies every family member, until the youngest successfully tries kindness and courtesy.
Dryden's audiences in 1671, both aristocratic and middle-class, would
have been quick to respond to the themes of disputed royal succession,
Francophilia and loyalty amo...
The only extant work on mathematics by the ancient Greek mathematician, Nicomachus.
Hecuba was the most widely read play of Euripides from antiquity to the Renaissance, appealing to readers and spectators for its controversial treatment of moral themes: r...
IDEAS AND OPINIONS contains essays by eminent scientist Albert Einstein on subjects ranging from atomic energy, relativity, and religion to human rights, government, and e...
Emilie souhaite se venger de l'empereur Auguste qui a proscrit son pere avant d'acceder au pouvoir : elle demande a Cinna, son amant, de l'assassiner, faute...
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical po...
John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no...
In 1965, the happy Bedloe family is living an ideal, apple-pie existence in Baltimore. Then, in the blink of an eye, a single tragic event occurs that will transform their...
Written in 1855 and first published in the collection "Men and Women", Browning's narrative poem later served as the inspiration for Stephen King's "Dark Tower" series.
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“It is a defect of God’s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.”—Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
In a large country house in Derbyshir...
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion...
