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13161) Robur-le-conquérant
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Extrait : "Pan ! ... Pan ! ... Les deux coups de pistolet partirent presque en même temps. Une vache, qui passait à cinquante pas de là, reçut une des balles dans l'échine. Elle n'était pour rien dans l'affaire, cependant. Ni l'un ni l'autre des deux adversaires n'avait été touché. Quels étaient ces deux gentelmen ? On ne sait, et, cependant, c'eût été là, sans doute, l'occasion de faire parvenir leurs noms à la postérité."
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13162) The Squatter and the Don
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The Squatter and the Don (1885) is a novel by Mexican American author María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. The novel, Ruiz de Burton's second, explores the consequences of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo for the Californios whose land was taken following the Mexican American War. Central to its focus are the ways in which Californios were forced to provide proof of ownership while squatters, with the support of the US government, settled on their land.
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13163) The Man Who Lost His Face
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"The Man Who Lost His Face" is a science fiction novel by Alexander Belyaev. It tells the story of Tonio Presto, a dwarf comedian from San Francisco whose film success does not help him in his personal life due to his deformity. He decides to change his appearance with the Russian doctor Sorokin and becomes a beautiful but unfamiliar man. He gives up his career and disappears. Later, a gang appears in the city, whose members can change their appearance....
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Sherlock Holmes: The Pursuit of the Houseboat is the sequel to A House-Boat on the Styx. The novel opens with the Associated Shades taking stock of their situation. Captain Kidd has hijacked the Houseboat and they must find a way to get it back, the group decides to hire the famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, who, at the time had just been, killed off by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle gave his blessings for Bangs to use his character making this an...
13166) Les soirées de Chantilly
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Extrait: "Chantilly s'est classé d'une manière particulière dans la vie du sport en France. Ce n'est ni Ascot, ni Epsom, ni Doncaster, ni Goodwood, c'est Chantilly, et c'est quelque chose qu'il faut connaître, pour peu qu'on soit homme de belle existence, résident ou voyageur. C'est en 1834 que l'hippodrome fut dessiné et les courses organisées."
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Join world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his ever-loyal sidekick Dr. Watson as they embark on a daring adventure.
A wealthy man has been murdered in the strangest circumstances. A woman's wedding ring has been found with the body and the word "RACHE" has been scrawled in red on a nearby wall. Is this mystery too baffling for even the brilliant Sherlock Holmes?
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The National Book Award–nominated masterpiece that deconstructs and redefines 1950s America and the existential road trip The year is 1956, and a blacklisted Hollywood agent sets off on a cross-country adventure from Los Angeles to New York City. Along the way-stopping at bars, all-night restaurants, and gas stations-the twenty-nine-year-old narrator, at once egotistical and compassionate, barrels across the "blue highways" to meet, fight with,...
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This is Andrew Lang's 1898 English-language translation of "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. It was anthologized over hundreds of years by a variety of scholars, authors, and translators across Asia and North Africa, with the stories having roots in medieval Persian, Arabic, Mesopotamian, Jewish, Indian, and Egyptian folklore. Beautifully illustrated by...
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Margaret Oliphant's novel 'The Athelings, or The Three Gifts' was originally published in 1856. This early novel centers on the Atheling family, especially on the three young people Agnes, Marion, and Charlie. Each has a special gift: Agnes has genius as a writer, Marion has beauty, and Charlie will find his gift in the course of the story. The novel is told mostly from Agnes' point of view. She has written a novel and found a publisher; and on the...
13171) The Shame of Motley -- Being the Memoir of Certain Transactions in the Life of Lazzaro Biancomont
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The Shame of Motley is a swashbuckler romance first published in 1908, set in Italy at the turn of the 16th/17th century. The main character, Lazzaro Biancomonte, is of noble birth but now reduced to the role of a court fool. His redemption comes in his part in an adventure involving the Madonna Paola, with whom he becomes besotted. (Goodreads)
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Cinna, una espléndida tragedia del virtuoso escritor Pierre Corneille. Aunque se desarrolla en la Antigua Roma, los temas de este texto sublime son perfectamente extrapolables a la época actual. Emilia prepara con la ayuda de Cinna y de Máximo un complot contra el emperador Augusto, para vengarse de él por haber matado a su padre. ¿Cómo terminará esta espiral de violencia?
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13173) Qui perd gagne
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Extrait : "En 1887, Farjolle se décida à épouser sa blanchisseuse. A l'âge de trente ans, c'est une des plus graves résolutions que puisse prendre un homme. Mais, vraiment, cette existence d'htels meublés, de garnis vagues d'o on l'expulsait sans pitié dès qu'il n'avait plus d'argent, devenait intolérable. Ainsi, depuis des années, il trainait du quartier Latin à Montmartre, et parfois jusque dans les ruelles des extrêmes faubourgs."
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13175) Stories of the American West
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Colorful, vivid stories of the California Gold Rush, the Wild West, and the Mexican War made Bret Harte one of the most popular writers of his time. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's short story title is the epithet of one Alexander McGee, whose accurate aim would pierce the bull's eye of a mechanical target and cause a bell to ring. The Luck of Roaring Camp is the story of an infant born into a mining camp who changes the lives of the miners and brings...
13176) The Phenom in the Family
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When Sister Bear tries out for the Bear Country School swim team, she washes away the competition! Racing past the other swimmers, Sister Bear makes Papa proud. In fact, Papa Bear is so proud that he decides to train Sister into a Bearlympic competitor! Papa pushes his star swimmer to practice, practice, practice-but will Sister Bear enjoy swimming when the pressure is on?
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"Storytime: A Brand New Series of Illustrated eBooks for KidsFrom Bambi to Puss in Boots, this classic collection features some of the world's best-loved children's stories in an easy eBook format. Ready to read at the touch of a button and beautifully illustrated throughout, it's the perfect introduction to these timeless tales for boys and girls aged 4 and up.Help improve your child's reading in just 10 minutes a day with these short story collections...
13178) Correspondance
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Extrait : "Ma chère tante, Je viens vers vous tout doucement. Je serai aux Fresnes le 2 septembre, veille de l'ouverture de la chasse que je tiens à ne pas manquer, pour taquiner ces messieurs. Vous êtes trop bonne, ma tante, et vous leur permettez ce jour-là, quand vous êtes seule avec eux, de dîner sans habit et sans s'être rasés en rentrant, sous prétexte de fatigue."
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In her stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, period-hopping novel, award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl "is her usual unfailingly elegant, unbeatably witty self, cleverly braiding her own brand-name wit with Woolf's" (New York ) magazine. Preserving Woolf's vital ideas and lyrical tone, Ruhl brings to the stage the life of an Elizabethan nobleman who's magically transformed into an immortal woman. In her fresh translation of Three Sisters,...
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